From the first day of flow you could that as CD 1. 🙂

No not really (sorry I never saw this comment!) I would be blaming the fibroids for interrupting the flow. Have you tried to treat them?

And never questioned it. Cant believe I accepted it for such a long time.

Thanks Nat!

Thanks Kate for your insight. I also read and was made aware on the weekend that thousands of calves are killed every year as a result too – is this true? Perhaps you can help us understand this better.

I know not everything is as it seems but realistically cows are kept lactating not to feed calves but to be milked for human consumption. Also a pregnant cow shouldn’t be lactating so logic tells me that keeping a cow producing milk rather than constantly pregnant and then feeding is more productive dollar wise?

Chicken I know is a huge concern – compared how an organic chicken looks compared to a conventional. I’ve spoken about chickens many times on the blog. That much I’m certain on.

You’re articles are really interesting and I love that they provide me with loads of new information. However, you’re point in this one about animals being injected with hormones bothers me – that’s not the case for dairy cows or chicken meat in Australia at all. Cows produce milk for around 9 months of the year, and have a 3 month ‘drying off’ period, following the birth of their calf. Farmers try to ensure their cows fall pregnant (usually in the good old fashioned way, with a bull) each year so that they have a productive herd – milk production in Australia has nothing to do with injecting hormones. Same for chicken meat – sometimes antibiotics are used to prevent diseases where chickens are housed in sheds, but hormones haven’t been used in the Australian chicken meat industry since the 1960s. Making alarmist and false claims about agriculture like you have here kind of detracts from the legitimacy of your entire article, regardless of the accuracy of your other information.