Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In 2024, the Australian dairy industry became the first in the world to release a comprehensive national set of guidelines for the intensive confinement of dairy cows.
These guidelines support and encourage the adoption of ‘contained’ housing systems, where cows are kept in large, concrete barns with access to individual ‘loafing stalls’.
Like other forms of factory farming, dairy factories restrict cows from natural behaviour, such as grazing on grass and having access to open spaces to play and socialise. Instead, cows spend the majority of their lives standing on hard concrete eating grain, or being milked in an industrial milking parlour where their milk production is closely monitored and evaluated.
On intensive farms such as these, cows are often only 3 years old when they are killed.
These factories exist to maximise the productivity of a dairy farm, by increasing the amount of milk a cow will produce across her life. Within intensive systems such as these, there is little room for the wellbeing of cows.
Over the past year, Farm Transparency Project investigated four dairy factory farms in Victoria and NSW. These farms have been hailed as trailblazers by the dairy industry, with their conversion to zero graze farms applauded as innovation, rather than exploitation.
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In 2024, the Australian dairy industry became the first in the world to release a comprehensive national set of guidelines for the intensive confinement of dairy cows.
These guidelines support and encourage the adoption of ‘contained’ housing systems, where cows are kept in large, concrete barns with access to individual ‘loafing stalls’.
Like other forms of factory farming, dairy factories restrict cows from natural behaviour, such as grazing on grass and having access to open spaces to play and socialise. Instead, cows spend the majority of their lives standing on hard concrete eating grain, or being milked in an industrial milking parlour where their milk production is closely monitored and evaluated.
On intensive farms such as these, cows are often only 3 years old when they are killed.
These factories exist to maximise the productivity of a dairy farm, by increasing the amount of milk a cow will produce across her life. Within intensive systems such as these, there is little room for the wellbeing of cows.
Over the past year, Farm Transparency Project investigated four dairy factory farms in Victoria and NSW. These farms have been hailed as trailblazers by the dairy industry, with their conversion to zero graze farms applauded as innovation, rather than exploitation.
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Take action at dairyfactoryfarms.com.au
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Follow us on Facebook and Instagram:
facebook.com/FarmTransparencyProject
instagram.com/FarmTransparencyProject
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Choose dairy-free. Choose vegan
