Vegans push for dairy-free alternative to cow’s milk on school menu 49 years after Margaret Thatcher

Vegans are the NEW ‘milk snatchers’: Meat-free campaigners push for dairy-free alternative to the white stuff on school menu… 49 years after Margaret Thatcher stopped benefit for over 7s Vegans and doctors pressuring government to take cow’s milk off school menus They want plant-based alternatives high in calcium to be subsidised instead Evokes Margaret Thatcher’s … Read more

Milk from cows fed on grass is BETTER for the environment than drinking soya milk, study claims

Milk from cows fed on grass is BETTER for the environment than drinking milk made from soya beans, study claims Researchers examined the environmental impact of different milk products They found it takes more soya to produce soya milk than it does to feed a cow Switching from soya milk to cows milk could reduce … Read more

Cows lick each other to show affection and help forge strong friendships 

Cows lick each other around the head and neck to show affection and help forge strong friendships, a new study reveals. Chilean and US scientists spent 30 days observing a small herd of dairy cows that had recently given birth to observe social grooming, also known as allogrooming. The behaviour, which involves one cow licking … Read more

Burger King adds LEMONGRASS to its cows’ diets in a bid to reduce their methane emissions

Burger King adds LEMONGRASS to its cows’ diets in a bid to combat climate change and reduce their methane emissions by 33 percent Burger King is now selling a Reduced Methane Emissions Beef Whopper at select restaurants Beef comes from cows who have been fed lemongrass, which is thought to reduce their methane emissions by … Read more

Aristocrat and friend of the Queen saved from death by a can of CIDER after being trampled by cows

Aristocrat and friend of the Queen, 65, is saved from death by a can of CIDER after being trampled by a herd of cows while walking with his wife and dog near his country estate Francis Dymoke, 65, was walking in Louth near estate in Horncastle, Lincolnshire He, his wife and dog were charged by cows … Read more

Coronavirus: Scientists use cow’s blood for antibody treatment

A South Dakota biopharmaceutical company is developing an antibody treatment for the novel coronavirus using cow’s blood. SAb Biotherapeutics, based in Sioux Falls, has genetically engineered the traditional  farm animal to give them immune cells from humans.   In turn, the cows produce antibodies against COVID-19, which is turned into a drug currently named SAB-185. The … Read more

Scientists are developing antibody treatment for coronavirus from cow’s blood

A South Dakota biopharmaceutical company is developing an antibody treatment for the novel coronavirus using cow’s blood. SAb Biotherapeutics, based in Sioux Falls, has genetically engineered the traditional  farm animal to give them immune cells from humans.   In turn, the cows produce antibodies against COVID-19, which is turned into a drug currently named SAB-185. The … Read more

HENRY DEEDES: MPs ‘herded like cows’ as Parliament returns

More than half a mile the line snaked back through the Parliamentary Estate. From the Commons chamber it began, out through the cavernous environs of Westminster Hall before spilling out into New Palace Yard. For three months, the whole of this area had been totally deserted bar the odd armed policeman. Now, at 4pm on … Read more

Farmers are to ‘furlough’ their cows in a desperate bid to cut milk production

Farmers are to ‘furlough’ their cows in a desperate bid to cut milk production amid falling demand within the dairy industry.    Unions including the Royal Association Of British Dairy Farmers, Dairy UK and the National Farmers Union have united behind a rescue plan for the dairy industry which could include the setting up of a government-run … Read more