The Ahimsa Dairy’s Welsh sanctuary is a truly magical place. It is close to the sea and lies in rolling, green hills and has a lake full of water-lilies. It is here that all of our retired cows go when their milking days are over and where they will spend the rest of their years chewing the cud and relaxing in the fields. At the sanctuary the cows join our young bulls, who have been…
Continue readingCompassion in World Farming (CIWF) are leading another lobby against a new mega-dairy in Wales. In November 2011, despite advice from their own Planning Inspector to reject the proposal, Powys County Council Planning Committee approved an application for a 1,000 cow dairy at Lower Leighton Farm, Welshpool, Wales. A farm that would be massive – more than 8 times the size of the average UK dairy farm. This was a serious setback in the battle…
Continue readingManeka Ghandi is an active environmentalist and speaks out for the rights of animals in India. In the following article (from www.freefromharm.org) , she gives an insight into the state of the illegal cow slaughter in India and its long term implications: I have over two hundred letters on my table complaining about illegal cow slaughter. Many of these complainants are groups who have stopped trucks stuffed with cows and calves, many of them dead…
Continue readingThe Ahimsa Dairy Foundation, which sells entirely slaughter-free milk, is celebrating its first birthday this week and to mark the event has released a video of its sanctuary in Wales. Click here for video Looking Back – the Journey of Ahimsa Milk A Story of a Remarkable Dairy All great journeys begin not just with the first step, but with a great vision too. This is the story so far of our journey to realise…
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