Up to 1,000 cows kept under cover day and night, eating maize, soya and alfafa, each in the 10 square metres that will be its permanent home. A huge herd that will be milked three times a day, and produce up to 8.5 million litres of milk a year. While the slurry produced by the cows will be used to run the biggest methane power plant – 1.5 megawatts – yet built in France. A grotesque science fiction futuristic vision of the French countryside? Far from it; this is a detailed and current - if controversial - project to construct the biggest farm of its type ever built in France, deep in the countryside of Picardy, a northern region traditionally kown for its cereal crops, beetroot and beer.
An extract from an article in Mediapart.
Val says - and here was I in the summer looking at giant photographic boards in Najac admiring the cows and the families of the Aveyron Segala who raised them. I felt it was a good way to show us how the animals we eat were raised and cared for and those cows, well they would certainly not to be kept in 10 square metres.
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