Comments on: The Design of Dairy http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/ Food Photography Blog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: L http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-48148 L Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:06:58 +0000 http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-48148 Hi Tana, I agree with you that there are serious problems with the dairy industry... not to mention meat and pretty much all industrialized agriculture. My only point, this being a design/photography related site and not one on agricultural policy, is that you can find great design in the most unusual places. This cover is beautiful and lets you see cows in a new way. Using beautiful design does help communicate a message. Hopefully, it's one of humane treatment and sustainability, although as you point out that's not always the case. The problem is not the designers... it's the people who mistreat the animals, those that make choices to buy their products, and the governments refusal act on repairing our farm policy. Hi Tana,

I agree with you that there are serious problems with the dairy industry… not to mention meat and pretty much all industrialized agriculture.

My only point, this being a design/photography related site and not one on agricultural policy, is that you can find great design in the most unusual places. This cover is beautiful and lets you see cows in a new way. Using beautiful design does help communicate a message. Hopefully, it’s one of humane treatment and sustainability, although as you point out that’s not always the case.

The problem is not the designers… it’s the people who mistreat the animals, those that make choices to buy their products, and the governments refusal act on repairing our farm policy.

]]> By: Tana Butler http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-48146 Tana Butler Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:24:51 +0000 http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-48146 Please don't fall for a pretty picture as representing the reality of the dairy industry in this country, especially a photo out of context. (Cow against solid color background.) It's doubtful the cows ever set foot on grass in their lives, and instead are likely to suffer the fate of the cows that line the I-5 corridor down the central valley of California. It's cruel and stinking confinement to cement and filth, and that even includes some of the so-called organic milk industry. The huge profits derived from skimping on humane treatment of those poor animals allows them to hire expensive design firms to gloss over (literally) the ugly reality that would nauseate you, were you to encounter it on a hot summer day. It's unconscionable. Shame on them. <a href="http://smallfarms.typepad.com/small_farms/2006/03/tasty_tidbits.html" rel="nofollow">I wrote about it on my I Heart Farms weblog.</A> Added bonus: photos of real cows outside. Please don’t fall for a pretty picture as representing the reality of the dairy industry in this country, especially a photo out of context. (Cow against solid color background.) It’s doubtful the cows ever set foot on grass in their lives, and instead are likely to suffer the fate of the cows that line the I-5 corridor down the central valley of California. It’s cruel and stinking confinement to cement and filth, and that even includes some of the so-called organic milk industry.

The huge profits derived from skimping on humane treatment of those poor animals allows them to hire expensive design firms to gloss over (literally) the ugly reality that would nauseate you, were you to encounter it on a hot summer day. It’s unconscionable. Shame on them.

I wrote about it on my I Heart Farms weblog. Added bonus: photos of real cows outside.

]]> By: Junglefrog http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-46484 Junglefrog Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:18:52 +0000 http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-46484 That video was hilarious.... Not that the cow paid any attention to the guy shouting above her head! I only recently (such as the day before yesterday) found a Donna Hay magazine. Living in the Netherlands you sometimes really have to search to find something! That video was hilarious…. Not that the cow paid any attention to the guy shouting above her head!
I only recently (such as the day before yesterday) found a Donna Hay magazine. Living in the Netherlands you sometimes really have to search to find something!

]]> By: Kitt http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-46425 Kitt Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:19:34 +0000 http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-46425 Rivaling Donna Hay is high praise indeed. (Which reminds me of a favorite Wisconsin bumper sticker: "Get high on milk -- my cow's on grass.") Rivaling Donna Hay is high praise indeed.

(Which reminds me of a favorite Wisconsin bumper sticker: “Get high on milk — my cow’s on grass.”)

]]> By: Matt http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-46420 Matt Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:10:28 +0000 http://stilllifewith.com/2008/03/07/the-design-of-dairy/#comment-46420 I love the photo. That cow has personality. It reminds me of the cover of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother. Thanks for sharing. I love the photo. That cow has personality. It reminds me of the cover of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother. Thanks for sharing.

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