Gingue Brothers Dairy Farm

I went to the Gingue Brothers Dairy Farm. It has a lot of fields. In the milking center, farmers milk many cows. The machine to milk is comfortable for cows because it is not only milking but also massage. I was surprised about it. The pond which amass cattle manure is about eight feets. The smell was really stinky, but I gradually got used to the smell. So I really enjoyed.
 After that, I went to the river. I ate the cake which my teacher made and I enjoyed playing in the river. Although I wet through, I really enjoyed playing with my best friends and teachers!

Japanese Rice

In Japan, the staple food is rice. But thesedays, agricultural workers is decreased because population dedicated in agriculture is decreased. As a result, food self-sufficiency rate is declined. So the ministry of agriculture in Japan try to change this situation. Japanese government try to participate in a international treatment which called TPP. This treatment resolve the problem because rice will be imported from  foreign country. But it has a problem. The rice which imported from other country is cheap than domestic one. Therefore Japanese government hesitates partaking it.

Interesting facts about Gingue Brothers DAiry, LLC!

I could feel closed to the farm because I can understand what farm do through Facebook page. That is the first interesting thing about it.
When a heifer (female cow) is about two months away from giving birth she will be dried off, meaning I stop milking her, and given time to rest and grow a nice, healthy calf. During this period she is called a dry cow.
What I call a female calf born with a twin bull. It's pretty rare that cows have twins but when they do and the genders of the calves are male/female the female is called a freemartin.
I'm going to keep pasteurization one simple, because there are different kinds of pasteurization and we don't want to mix you all up. The basic definition of pasteurization is heating a food (in this case milk) to a certain temperature for a predetermined amount of time and then cooling it down immediately.
 And the last interesting thing is very important information for me because I love spicy food. If I like spicy food I could really benefit from having a glass of milk on hand. Milk is better for soothing my mouth after eating something spicy because the casein in milk cleanses your burning taste buds. These are what I interested in or didn't know about farm.

COTS

I went to the COTS, Committee on Temporary Shelter. First of all, that shelter wasn't like what I thought. A shelter which I thought was dirty, messy, and bad smell. However, COTS exploded my thinking. It has a lot of beds and lockers. And Although it crammed, it is better than nothing because a lot of people can live as possible as COTS can.
COTS was found about thirty years ago in Vermont because people who has no home or somewhere to live with warm in shivering winter will be died.
In Japan, it has a lot of shelters. But it is not so kind to the homeless because it costs some money to live in. Unlike Japan, it has an instant effect on homeless to be able to use COTS for free. Japan should follow COTS' example.
Visiting COTS was precious experience to me, so if I can, I want to go to my town's shelter.