The first thing that we noticed while touring Cane Creek Valley Farm in Fletcher, North Carolina was the strong and unpleasant odor that overwhelmed us as soon as we got close. As we walked through the crowded barns, we could see adult cows standing and lying in layers of their own waste.
Many of the adult cows have grotesquely large, distended udders as a result of constantly being forced to produce milk for human consumption instead of nursing their own babies
We found one mother with a newborn calf, but learned that mothers and babies are only permitted to stay together for about a week or less at Cane Creek. After that they are traumatically separated babies live in groups with other forcibly orphaned calves.
As on most dairy farms, the male calves are disposable to the industry and are either slaughtered for veal, sold, or kept for breeding. The Cane Creek Creamery has been dissolved but the farm farm sells milk to Milkco who bottles it for Ingles.
Asheville Dairy 