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The "life" of a dairy cow

The "life" of a dairy cow

Worldwide there are about 225 million cows, producing about 500 million tons of milk a year. Only in Italy in 2005 over one million and 800 thousand cows produced 10.5 million tonnes of milk (source: FAO and Eurostat data on Ismea).
To produce such quantities of milk a cow, bred according to the criteria developed in recent decades of intensive farming, is usually forced to give birth to a calf a year. This leads to a coincidence between these animals during pregnancy and lactation most of the year. Dairy cows, in fact, pregnant and lactating simultaneously for about seven months. Lactation stops just two months before the birth of the calf, but after three months of the birth of the little cow is pregnant again, through artificial insemination, and so the pregnancy-lactation cycle begins again. This overexploitation often makes the cows have calves about 2-4 before you begin to experience chronic health problems, or infertility, becoming "cull cows" and be sent to the slaughterhouse.
The puppies are 1-3 days away from its mother after birth, but continue to look for a long time after separation. The females fall in the production cycle milk, while male calves are in most cases sent to companies to "grease", although subjected to a diet low in iron so that "produce" the white veal. It is not uncommon that small farmers kill them at birth because "useless": a case in point is represented by the male calves of the buffalo, whose flesh is considered of little economic interest, which are often left to starve.
Dairy cows are led to increasing production by means of genetic selection of species, with specific diets and through the use of milking machines. Cows are usually fertilized by artificial insemination artificial embryo transfer also frequent, practice extremely painful enough to require epidural anesthesia by law. Embryo transfer is used to quickly multiply the number of cows "high quality", that is more productive.
Years of genetic selection, therefore, have meant that the cows currently produce about ten times the amount of milk needed to feed their calves, aged between 30 and 50 liters of milk per day. Due to the production of milk which they are forced, the cows are in a constant state of "starvation metabolism" so that their bodies provide the necessary energy to all their functions. In addition, the breasts are so heavy that the weight significantly affects the hind legs seriously damaged.
are very often encountered in cases of lameness in dairy cows. In addition to weight, a key factor is the fact that during the winter are often housed in post offices, in most cases too narrow to allow adequate room, so often the hind legs of the animals remain for hours in the sliding channel of wastewater, just behind the post office. Another factor is the inadequacy of the litter on which the cows lie down, and then in direct contact with the floor which causes abrasions and inflammation of the joints.
Another frequent disease of dairy cows and the occurrence of mastitis: painful bacterial infection of the udder of the main causes of which are made by automatic milking machines and poor hygienic conditions of farms. It is estimated that each year are used millions of doses of antibiotics (usually penicillin) to treat this disease, with enormous financial costs.
But the cost in pain and suffering of the animal can not be quantified, all these diseases contribute significantly to almost totally destroy their energies, so as not physically able to stand, to become what is commonly referred to as "cows on the ground" .

Use allowed quoting the source LAV Onlus 2007 - www.lav.it

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the ubiquitous formaldehyde

You know that feeling to "hardcover "who have tried many clothes in the store that needs to be removed at least 2 washes the cotton and give a normal appearance?

Do you have headaches in some rooms furnished as soon as the scent of" new " ?

Here this wonderful feeling of freshness and novelty is the ubiquitous formaldehyde, formic acid aldehyde, which benefits from the many functions-as a preservative, mold, mite, anti-humidity.

Clothing products in China, wooden furniture and plywood and particle board that persist for months in warehouses and stored in containers, are literally soaked in formaldehyde, which forms an impenetrable barrier to moisture and critters. Your clothes and furniture will be protected for ever, this barrier that filters into every fiber of fabric or wood.

The short-term effects of exposure to formaldehyde are irritation of the eyes, nasal and throat, and skin manifestations , visual disturbances, nausea, eczema, fact gas is irritating to mucous membranes and potentially carcinogenic. The long-term effects are mainly cancers of the upper respiratory tract (nose and sinuses) and asthma.

Now you can avoid it, here's how :

Check the components of building materials and finishing products detergenti e per la manutenzione. Preferire materiali da finitura esenti da solventi sintetici e arredi realizzati in legno massiccio, con ridotto uso di colle, o in prefiniti esenti da formaldeide. Se per questioni economiche si acquistano arredi realizzati in pannelli truciolari, esigere almeno la certificazione E1 (basso contenuto di formaldeide).
Evitare di installare arredi realizzati con pannelli truciolari nelle stanze di lungo soggiorno, nei bagni e nelle cucine (il calore e l'umidità aumentano l'intensità e la nocività delle emissioni). Preferire sempre tessuti naturali per l'arredamento. Posare le moquette "Pull" rather than with the use of glues.
Tightly close the bottle of cleaning and maintenance, and confine them in cabinets securely closed and away from food supplies, especially the dry food substance and will easily absorb all the fat components of foods absorb the pollutants and volatile.
Prefer natural oils and waxes for the maintenance of wooden furniture and plant-based detergents. No smoking. In particular, do not smoke in the living ever longer, and especially in the bedrooms.
Avoid smoking during manufacturing or installation of materials containing formaldehyde.
Ventilate often the premises of the house, especially during and after the cleaning and maintenance and in the presence of cigarette smoke. Reduce
furnishing the presence of large absorbent surfaces such as curtains and blinds, carpets, rugs, mats, upholstery raffia, open libraries, all these surfaces absorb pollutants occasional (cigarette smoke, smog, fumes from solvents) then slowly release into the environment. Observe extra care for children and for vulnerable people.

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Battle for the 'Water

What will happen when will the oil? How will the economic system that in effect our government to stand up for what he'll do that part of the war to conquer the rest of the industrialized world after finishing the 'element that so far has generated?

The answer that I gave myself by asking these questions is as easy as chilling, and after the 'gold Black, who will again lead our narrow neck just enough to let us breathe, but not enough to make us move will be the 'water.

Over the past thirty years 'the' water has declined by 40 percent, it is estimated that in 2020 when the world population touches eight billion third share of this will not have access.

200 million children already die each year from diseases caused by consumption of contaminated water in the heart of the world where the 'blue gold has always been the primary weapon used by political and economic systems to maintain their control.

Now we waste, pollute with all kinds of crap, wash 's car at Saturday' s drinking water, let it go down the toilet roll of 9 liters per flush, they use awful lot to cool the nuclear reactors (France uses 40 percent of 'water-consuming to cool their own).

So while running towards the privatization here in Italy, I wonder how long it will take you to the big corporations that govern us and pollute water supplies with many of their industrial waste to come into possession of drinking rather than making us fall quickly towards an oligopoly as is now the energy.

's water is a primary good, those who will have control will be master of the world and in the near future, the choice that we could find to do will not be among the wash and drink, but el between drinking water the field to produce the grain .

In the near future if we allow the privatization of 'water we could find ourselves in a situation where it could not guarantee our children and our grandchildren' s essential to life.

That future might not be so far away.

Alessandro Bolognesi

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The decrease is not as bad multinationals

Marino Badiale , Massimo Bontempelli

L’idea (o slogan) della decrescita è una componente essenziale di un pensiero critico capace di confrontarsi con la situazione del mondo contemporaneo, e di interagire con una possibile nuova pratica politica adeguata ai gravissimi problemi attuali. Il punto di partenza del pensiero della decrescita è la ritrovata consapevolezza, annullata nel senso comune da qualche secolo di capitalismo, che i concetti di bene economico e di merce non sono identici: beni (intesi anche come servizi) sono i prodotti del lavoro umano che soddisfano determinati bisogni e necessità, merci sono, tra quei beni, quelli inseriti in un mercato monetario con un prezzo di vendita, e acquisibili, quindi, soltanto pagando quel prezzo. In termini logici, sono due concetti interconnessi, ma non coestensivi. La distinzione chiaramente riecheggia quella, introdotta dagli economisti classici e ripresa da Marx, fra valore d’uso e valore di scambio. Quando si parla di crescita si intende la crescita della sfera della circolazione di merci, quindi della sfera di compravendita di beni e servizi dotati di un prezzo. Quando si parla di decrescita si intende la diminuzione del raggio di questa sfera.
La decrescita è necessaria per risparmiare all’umanità la gravissima crisi di civiltà alla quale ci sta portando l’attuale organizzazione economica e sociale, che ha nella crescita il dogma che can not be questioned. There is now a growing awareness of the fact that there can be unlimited growth on a planet whose resources are limited, and that have now been achieved (and exceeded) the "limits to growth." But beyond that, you must also provide another level of awareness: the economic growth of recent decades has been achieved with the destruction of the achievements of the welfare state and a trend towards reduction of the operating logic of the social totality to the logic of profit and the market. In this way, capitalist development not only destroys nature, it also destroys all forms of social cohesion and the same mental balance of individuals. The decline, opposition to this development as a carcinogen, is therefore a necessary step to save human civilization. It must not be regarded as a harsh and unpleasant necessity. The decrease is not impoverished: it is defined, as we noted above, in terms of reduction of goods and not necessarily of goods. The decrease does not, in principle, the decrease in goods and services used by the population. Rather involves a rethinking and reorganization of production and consumption, encouraging, to name a few, property obtained by the self or non-market trade, goods produced with production local goods scheduled to last and to be easily recycled at the end of their cycle of use. This obviously entails a profound change in lifestyle of the people, but not their depletion. For example, involves a drastic reduction of the size of the fashion and advertising items that are considered obsolete yet fully functional, but also the general decrease of working hours (defined as paid work) in order to allow self-handling of part of goods and the care of human relations and community relations, within which may be non-market exchanges of goods and services.
To examine this issue, the fact namely, that the decrease is not depleted, we must reflect on the concept of poverty. The error that is commonly made at all levels, is to define poverty in terms of numbers of a level of monetary income. Any newspaper article on poverty in the world will always contain the reference to the fact that "the world there are x million people living on less than two dollars a day," where exactly is meant that the "poverty" is defined quantitatively by having a income of less than two dollars a day. It is, as we said above, a mistake: poverty is defined in terms of quality, social and historical, and not quantified. Two people equally poor according to the quantitative definition, that is the same (low) level of monetary income, can live in such a situation completely differently depending on social context. For example, there may be, as at certain times of the Middle Ages, situations where the poor are respected, and above all poverty is considered a possible human conditions, not the expression of a personal failure as now. So the poor, helped financially by charitable behavior is not episodic and not humiliating, is not poor in our sense of the word. But to come closer consideration to the issue of decline, we think the situation of a farmer English low social status at the stage where he can enjoy a range of common property (forests, pastures), and compare it with the next phase in which the commons have been appropriated by large landowners (the famous enclosures which has laid great stress on Marx). It is clear that in both situations, the same monetary income is combined with a material situation is very different, because in the former case the farmer has the ability to integrate a low monetary income with goods and services to which access without going through the monetary exchange For the latter case, this possibility no longer exists. For one final example, consider the condition in which they were once the servants who lived in the house of the owners: they had a right to a home, food, the clothes often, and a lack of monetary income. Such a low income, together with the condition of a servant, being involved certainly in the bottom of the social hierarchy, but not a condition of misery, as it would have had if the same money income, or even a slightly higher, were to be used for purchasing food and paying rent 1. We can then
now more easily understand the error of the common discourse on poverty, which identifies it with an income of less than two dollars a day. The point is that two dollars a day may indicate a situation in which you live, or may indicate the most desperate poverty, according to social conditions. If people live within a subsistence economy in which food and other goods are produced and traded outside the market mechanism, life with less than two dollars per day may be possible and can even be rich, not from the material point of view but from the point of view of human relations. But if people live on less than two dollars a day in a situation where access to basic goods like food and water is mediated by money, then you really are in a desperate situation. The point is that
what is commonly called the "development of poor countries' economies is essentially the transition from non-monetary subsistence to cash economies: as we have just said, then it is highly likely that the effect of this development is the creation of genuine poverty, despair , untenable, instead of a situation in which individuals and communities could survive (of course with less ease than those to which we Westerners are used) 2. These observations are among others the response to an argument that recurs frequently in discussions on the decline, according to which the thesis that the decline might be a good idea for developed countries but is impractical in poor countries. The answer is therefore that growth is destructive both in developed countries than in underdeveloped, and the decrease is a strategy of salvation for all humanity 3.
Another aspect to keep in mind when we talk about poverty is that poverty always has a comparative aspect: it is more or less poor in relation to the status of the average company in which we live and the goods it considers it necessary to possess. Always pushing the purchase of new items, the current economic system creates new forms of poverty, because not everyone can buy. Today many people would call povere spendono parte del loro scarso reddito per acquisti come quello del telefono cellulare: bisogna averlo perché tutti ce l’hanno, lo usano e danno per scontato che tutti debbano essere attraverso di esso rintracciabili, quindi senza di esso ci si sente più poveri. La società basata sulla crescita genera quindi povertà, da un lato perché genera bisogni cui non tutti possono accedere, dall’altro perché è organizzata in modo da rendere necessari certi acquisti. Questo è ciò che capita se per esempio scompaiono i piccoli negozi e sono disponibili solo supermercati lontani da casa, rendendo così necessaria l’automobile, oppure se a poco a poco si trasferiscono su internet gran parte della transazioni of everyday life, and requires the purchase of computer and its continuous updating.
The identification of decline and impoverishment thus arises from a misconception of poverty, an idea which has been made to disappear all the historically and socially determined aspects of poverty.
Similarly, one must distinguish between contraction and recession. The recession is a decline in GDP in a framework of commodification of the economy unchanged and, more generally, of social configuration. Recession means then that the individual always has the same needs as before (the car needs, asylum pay for children to keep changing to follow the fashion clothing and so on), but no longer has a monetary income to meet these needs, so it's poor.
The decrease, however, is a qualitative change, not just quantity. Decrease means that the GDP declined for two reasons. Firstly, certain assets that were previously produced as goods are produced goods are not as commercialized or are goods but include lower costs for transportation and advertising (which should be abolished). Secondly change the structure of needs: if there are health posts throughout the area providing free services of good quality, does not feel the need of health care private, and who has no money for this does not feel poor. If a district is equipped to have a social life, self-sufficient, not resulting in a need to go look for a nightclub to a hundred miles away, and who is unable to do so does not feel poor. The choice of the decrease is essentially the choice of a sober life, which once reached the fulfillment of a set of basic needs are not trying, as it does today, the compulsive and destructive consumption of more and more objects, but the real research wealth that we are missing today: the time to build relationships and rich human relationships meaningful communication.
The difference between contraction and recession also includes the observation that the recession is an automatism of the market economy: are necessarily involved, given certain initial conditions. By contrast, the decrease is a project that should be actively pursued, and certainly do not will be established automatically.
If you understood all this, then it is easy to understand how the decrease represents a revolutionary project, the only genuine revolutionary project available.
In fact, the capitalist economic organization encourages the commodification of every aspect of social reality and the natural one: it is a mechanism required for the expanded reproduction of the creation of surplus value. Who wants to wants to halt and reverse the decline questa tendenza, e quindi ha una posizione anticapitalistica, anche se la coscienza di questo non sembra essere pienamente chiara in coloro che la sostengono e neppure nei critici anticapitalisti della decrescita stessa.

La confusione fra decrescita e povertà, o fra decrescita e recessione, è in ultima analisi un prodotto dell’attuale egemonia del capitalismo. Si tratta del fatto che all’interno della società capitalistica appare del tutto inconcepibile una società che produca e consumi secondo una logica non mercantile. La decrescita appare inconcepibile, oppure concepibile solo come una sventura, perché il nostro immaginario è dominato da un’idea di povertà and wealth, and life in general and humanity, forged by capitalism. The anti-capitalist struggle today must be a struggle against this imagery.

* 1. To avoid misunderstandings, we point out that we are not doing propaganda to the condition of the family home, which was still a subordinate social status and could be accompanied by coldness or hardness in human relationships. We are simply pointing out that the same quantitative level of monetary income is compatible with the actual conditions of life very different.
2. Of course, the real dynamic of 'development' in poor countries may be very different depending on different situations. There may be cases in which the Development does not have any negative consequences that potentially could have. We are not here investigating certain cases, we are making general remarks on the concept of "poverty".

3. With these observations do not of course mean to say that subsistence economies, still widespread in the countries 'poor', must be preserved as they are, but simply to suggest that genuine human progress in those countries should take place without following the typical model of universal commodification of capitalism.

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