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Many people who segregate to pay the uneaten for milk certified under one of the schemes unelevated do so because they believe the animals have a much higher standard of living. However, all these dairy cows are still subjected to the exploitative nature of the industry. Soil Association Organic Standards In order to receive Soil Association certification for their milk, dairy farmers must comply with specific standards set lanugo by the organisation. Certified farms are inspected annually by the Soil Association to ensure that these standards are stuff upheld. While most of the standards set out by the Soil Association are aimed at improving the quality of the milk, unrepealable standards do pertain specifically to unprepossessing welfare.  Highly invasive practices such as embryo transfer and ovum pick-up are prohibited but strained insemination is unliable without any regulations governing the successors (and therefore size) of the sire. Fertility hormones must not be used to synchronise calving but may be used to bring a cow with lightweight fertility into heat. Calves may only be housed individually until seven days old and then must be group housed. Disbudding is still permitted up to two months old and castration with a rubber ring without anaesthetic is unliable in the first week of life. They may not be taken to market under one month old but vastitude that age they may endure journeys of up to eight hours to market or the abattoir.   Cows on organic farms are still impregnated every year to provide a continuous supply of milk and endure the trauma of having their calves taken yonder within 24-72 hours of birth. They moreover siphon the dual load of pregnancy and lactation for seven months of every year, just like those on conventional farms. These two welfare insults are inherent in dairy production and cannot be eliminated. The lineage of male calves is moreover a problem for organic dairy farmers using upper yield breeds such as Holsteins and the scheme allows these ‘unwanted by-products’ to be shot shortly without lineage or to be raised for rose veal.   RSPCA Assured (formerly Freedom Foods Scheme) The RSPCA’s Freedom Foods standards for the welfare of dairy cattle provide little increasingly than the legal minimum for cows and their calves. As in organic farming, cows suffer the repeated trauma of having their calves taken yonder shortly without lineage and squatter the gruelling workload of pregnancy and lactation. The only practices of conventional farming which are prohibited are embryo transfer and ovum pick-up. Calves may still be housed individually up to eight weeks old and can travel to market as young as seven days old, rememberable journeys up to eight hours long. The standards on the removal of supernumerary teats and disbudding do offer slightly higher welfare than the legal minimum, with local anaesthetic stuff required for both procedures under the scheme and the upper age limit set for five weeks. However the fate of male calves is ignored under this scheme, leaving farmers self-ruling to skiver off any unwanted calves immediately without birth. The welfare goody provided to dairy cows by the RSPCA Freedom Foods scheme was evaluated in a study by Bristol University which investigated the welfare of cows on 40 Freedom Foods tried farms and 40 non-Freedom Foods farms:     “There was no difference in overall welfare score between Freedom Foods and non-Freedom Foods farms. Thus, we were unable to conclude that membership of the Freedom Foods scheme ensured largest overall welfare than non-participating farms.” (Professor Webster)     Red TractorSubletAssurance The Red Tractor logo on dairy products signifies that the milk was produced in the UK on a sublet which meets the standards of the Red TractorSubletAssurance Dairy scheme. However, these standards are simply the UK and EU legal minimums and nothing more! All of the farming practices outlined in The Dark Side of Dairy report are winning under this scheme. The only thing this logo guarantees the consumer is that the product was produced in Britain and the sublet was not breaking any laws, at least not on the day it was inspected.     Read increasingly in our report The Dark Side of Dairy. 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