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"Newborn females arrive from local dairies and spend their first 180 days at Calf Source — first in one of 4,896 hutches, like the ones seen here, and then in l
by hexane360 10y ago
"Newborn females arrive from local dairies and spend their first 180 days at Calf Source — first in one of 4,896 hutches, like the ones seen here, and then in larger group pens. Trucks pass down each of 72 rows, dispensing water and milk. After a transfer to Heifer Source, another facility owned by the Milk Source company, the cows are inseminated and then returned — seven months pregnant, and just under 2 years old — to the dairies they came from."
They only spend a small part of their life there. And they're cows, so they're not used for meat.
- echlebek 10y agoThey are, eventually. Once they stop producing enough milk, they're sold for meat. A dairy farm I once visited likened milk cows to star football players - once they stop producing, they're off the team to make room for new talent.
- ciconia 10y ago> They only spend a small part of their life there. And they're cows, so they're not used for meat. Yeah right, being separated from your mom at birth, enslaved from your first day, raped and made pregnant once a year is not such a bad deal. At least you're not dead...
- toomanybeersies 10y agoGiven that cows cannot give consent, you can hardly call it rape any more than natural insemination from a bull is rape.