Cow Group

What kind of food do you get from the cow?

Milk, cheese, ice cream. yogurt, and meat.

How does milk get from the cow to your home?

First it comes from the cows utters. Then it goes to the truck that is cooled at the right temperature. Then it goes to the processing plant that makes it into many different types of dairy products.

Find out if there is any difference between the milks way 60 years ago and the way these days? You may want to ask an older person, maybe your grandparents, how they got their milk when they were in your age?

In the old days the milk man milked his cow, put it bottles and came to your home. He then left for you milk by your front door. Now you go to the store and buy it there. The farmers use to have very different machines to pasturize the milk.

Describe the differences. We found this good web site that tells about early dairy farms.
http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/milker/milker.htm

Do you have possibility to buy "ecological milk"? Why is it called "ecological milk"?

"Ecological milk" is milk that they don't add chemicals to. Instead of chemicals, they boil the milk to make it clean.

How is the milk packed and why?

The milk travels through pipes to the automatic packaging machines that fill and seal the milk into paper cartons or plastic jugs. As the containers move through a assembly line, the date is printed on each of them to show how long the milk will stay fresh.

How much did a normal "milking" cow weigh 60 years ago, and how much does it weigh today? What do you think? Find out the differences and what they depend on?

A cow today wieghs somewhere around 635,026 grams (625kilograms)(1400 pounds.) That's about 10-25 times what we weigh.