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Through a series of ground-breaking undercover investigations the group has shone a light on the rapidly expanding goat’s dairy industry in the UK – including farms that supply the UK’s biggest supermarkets. Viva! has moreover dismissed claims that goat’s milk is a healthy option. Overduethe pastoral image often portrayed Viva!’s exposé has found potentially illegal and other routine mutilation of baby animals1, disease outbreaks2, piles of dead carcasses3, intensified zero-grazing farming practices4 and Billy goats increasingly sold for the ethnic supplies market5. The group says that it is this intensification that has unliable the industry to surpass the production of 2 million litres a year in Britain for the first time6. In May 2012, the group filmed undercover at Upper Enson Farm (Britain’s largest grazing goat herd6) in Staffordshire, who milk virtually 1,800 goats for Delamere Dairies – who supply M&S, Waitrose, The Co-op, Sainsbury’s and a number of other major UK retailers7. In September/October 2011, Viva! moreover filmed at Bromes Farm in Somerset, which farms virtually 1,200 zero-grazed goats and supplies Tesco8. Viva! founder and director Juliet Gellatley says, “Ethically minded consumers who have been shocked by increasingly intensive methods of production in the dairy cow industry have been switching to goats’ milk under the mistaken weighing that it is somehow increasingly humane.”  Ms Gellatley continues, “We are not talking well-nigh small herds of goats anymore, on today’s farms herds can run to well over a thousand animals. Whilst some have wangle to the outside, the industry is increasingly moving towards zero-grazing practices where these inquisitive animals never plane go outside. “As with dairy farms with cows, males are often surplus to requirements considering they are simply the wrong sex to produce milk. On one goat sublet we filmed at they previously tending of young male kids by swinging them by the when legs and smashing their heads into a metal post. Now they raise them for the ethnic meat market. “Most consumers will be shocked to discover that the modern dairy goat industry is underpinned and only possible by the mutilation of victual animals at just a day or two old. Usually without anaesthetic, they are ear-tagged and most have the tips of their horns burnt off. Males suffer remoter with a method of castration that can rationalization significant long and short term pain. Whilst the industry might dispute how much pain is caused, our footage of myriad screaming kids shows that mutilation is the order of the day to alimony the nation’s goats’ milking flowing. “There is moreover a misconception that goats’ milk is somehow a healthy option. It is not. Goats’ milk has virtually the same lactose content as cows’ milk and has not been proven to be less allergenic. Goats’ milk moreover contains IGF-1 and oestrogen, both of which are known to be cancer promoters. Goats’ milk is moreover upper in saturated fat and often contains an plane higher value of somatic cells than cows’ milk. In other words increasingly pus! Plant-based milks, such as those derived from soya, oat or rice, make a much healthier and kinder alternative. “Don’t stipulate with the mutilation of babies and want to modernize your health? The wordplay is simple: waif dairy and go vegan.”   All footage was legally obtained and biosecurity was strictly observed. Potential breaches on unprepossessing health and welfare have been reported to the towardly authorities.   1 The disbudding of goats must be carried out by a veterinary surgeon equal to the Goats (England): Code of Recommendations for the Welfare of Livestock (PB9733 & PB0081). “In the UK, goat disbudding is usually undertaken within the first seven days of life, as horn bud growth can be rapid. The Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 requires that the procedure must be undertaken by a veterinary surgeon. It is moreover recommended that it should be carried out under unstipulated anaesthesia.” David Harwood, Honorary Veterinary Surgeon, British Goat Society, AHVLA. The disbudding shown in the undercover footage was undertaken by a sexuality sublet worker on Upper Enson Farm. No anaesthesia was used during filming. Other (legal) mutilations of kid goats at Upper Enson Farm included ear-tagging and the castration without anaesthetic of male kids. The footage shows kids crying out in pain and in evident discomfort throughout the procedures. In its March 2011 report FAWC (FarmUnprepossessingWelfare Council)’s report on mutilations in piglets said: “Mutilations involve handling stress, vigilant pain (short term, welling from tissue forfeiture during the procedure) and the possibility of chronic pain (longer term, welling from nerve damage.” FAWC’s 2008 report into the mutilation of lambs concluded that: “… there is widespread visa that, without constructive analgesia, all methods wontedly used for both castration and tail docking of lambs rationalization pain and distress.” Although these reports do not imbricate goats specifically, it is reasonable to seem that similar welfare concerns would stupefy goats, also. 2 At Upper Enson farm the farmer admits they have an outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis (which can rationalization chronic diarrhoea and sometimes eventual death in younger goats). It is spread by infected faeces, but no effective biosecurity was observed on sublet (no footbaths) and some sheets was covered in faeces, as was milking machinery. Kid goats with diarrhoea were not isolated. Live and sufferer kid goats are carried in a wheelbarrow; presenting increasingly potential risk of cross-contamination.Increasinglyon Cryptosporidiosis here. 3 Carcases of sufferer nanny and kid goats are observed at Upper Enson Farm (with further carcases mainly from stillbirths at Bromes Farm). At Upper Enson the local abattoir collects them for ‘rendering’. At Bromes farm the local venery takes sufferer goats.  4 Bromes farm is completely zero-grazing, which ways that the goats do not go out to pasture. This vendible from Farmer’s Weekly (25 August 2011) confirms that they do not go outside as it would reduce the time that nannies could be milked. Goats at Upper Enson farm are unliable out to pasture at unrepealable times of the day (if the weather allows). 5 Both farms used to skiver male dairy Billy goats, but now grow on for the meat market. On the first visit to BromesSublet(September 2011) a worker said they killed them as there was no market (confirmed in Farmer’s Weekly article). On subsequent visit worker says they used to skiver them by holding them by the when legs and smashing their heads versus a post (this is legal). On this subsequent visit the worker now says that they sell the males at a week old to a Bristol-based visitor to be grown on for “curry”. At Upper Enson, a worker confirms that they used to gas all of the male dairy goats but have now ripened a meat market for them. A 2010 vendible from Farmer’s Weekly confirms that most goat meat goes to the Asian (which would include Halal) and Caribbean markets (including worn out nanny goats). 6 http://www.fstoppress.com/articles/dairy-goats/ 7 Delamere supplies these retailers: https://www.delameredairy.co.uk/where-to-buy.aspx 8 Bromes Farm supplies Tesco (as said on footage) For increasingly information well-nigh this media release, contact Viva!’s printing office on 0117 944 1000 or by emailing press@viva.org.uk.    Viva! is a champion for animals in the dairy industry and we do essential work to reduce dairy consumption for the sake of the animals, the environment and our health. We can't do it without you. 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