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Confinement animal-welfare target, but UW vet sees happy cows in freestalls (Ag Weekly)

Dairy producers talk ?cow comfort.? The non-farm public worries about ?animal welfare.? From the cow?s perspective, those issues are one and the same. Not so with people, warns Nigel Cook, UW-Madison veterinarian, who recently spoke very bluntly about the animal welfare threat to the dairy industry to producers attending a dairy modernization meeting in Abbotsford.