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China's giant cow farms leave neighbours up milk creek
Published Tue, Dec 27, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Gannan, China
GIANT piles of black manure towering over cornfields, while rancid-smelling effluent from thousands of cows spills onto the land - this is the price of a glass of milk in China today.
Large-scale dairy farms have boomed in the Asian giant, as its near 1.4 billion consumers overcame centuries of cultural reluctance to embrace the white fluid.
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