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Pour ceux qui se demandent ce qu'impliquerait un élevage de vaches laitières dans lequel on ne tue aucun bovin :
Donc en gros il faut gérer 10 fois plus d'animaux si l'on ne veut pas en tuer.
Source : Permaculture Pinciples & Pathways, David Holmgren
This outcome of a system designed to maximise milk output per kilo of fodder can be
contrasted to the slow, steady approach required on dairy farms run by Hare Krishna
communities, where every calf bom, female and male, must be cared for over its natural
life. To produce dairy products under this tradition (without unsustainable growth in
animal numbers) it is necessary to maximise the milk production per calf by continuing to
milk a cow for many years before getting her in calf again. With careful management, it is
possible to have about seven milking cows in a total stable population of 80-90 cows and
bullocks.(Gokula Dasa, pers. comm)
Of course, the other half of this curious equation is to find a job for the bullocks. In India
the bullocks were used for pulling carts and ploughs. They were more valuable than cows,
which yielded only small amounts of milk because of a shortage of year-round good fodder.
To slow down to bullock pace is a great challenge in today’s world, even for devotees of
Lord Krishna. What appears to be a mad and unsustainable taboo, is — or at least was, in
its cultural context — a lesson in the limits to good things (dairy products) and the need
for a slow and steady approach.
Donc en gros il faut gérer 10 fois plus d'animaux si l'on ne veut pas en tuer.
Source : Permaculture Pinciples & Pathways, David Holmgren