The reason why we farm cows and not goats for dairy products is quite simple with sound historical reasoning. Cows are easy to control and can live on just grass, they are grazers. Goats are browsers and are very difficult to fence in and control. In the UK our farmland is owned and boundaries are jealously guarded. However that does not mean that it should stay that way. Modern dairy cows live an average of just under three lactations, about 6 years. Yet these animals used to be able to have a stress free lifespan of 12 to 15 or more years. They have been bred to a fine type…