Happy, Healthy Cows, and More Milk

July 26, 2010 at 9:14 am · Filed under Business, Healthy Food, Life, Planet, Tech and tagged: cool environment, cow washing, Earth-friendly lifestyle, Green life, green technology, happy cows, healthier milk, lucas compan, nin9 branding, sustainable communication

Photo via Daily Mail, credit SWNS

Swinging Cow Wash Means Happy, Healthy Cows, and More Milk

The cow wash is a free-swinging brush that starts rotating when a cow rubs up against it. The cow can move around the brush as it pleases, getting rubbed wherever it wants – along its sides, back, and head.

The Daily Mail writes that the cow wash increases milk production by about 3.5% through improving blood circulation and decreasing the likeliness that cows will suffer disease. The company has already sold 30,000 cow washes in Sweden, and is moving on to the UK.

The cows definitely seem to enjoy it!

Though there are serious environmental issues with raising cows for milk (let alone beef), it’s not likely that we’ll see an end to dairy farming. So hats off to the dairy farmers who are doing all they can to make sure their cows are happy, healthy, and treated humanely.

Photo via Daily Mail, credit SWNS

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