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1. Cows, like humans, only produce milk after giving birth 2. These cows, in order to get pregnant in the first place, are artificially inseminated (and it isn
by ahelwer 3y ago
1. Cows, like humans, only produce milk after giving birth
2. These cows, in order to get pregnant in the first place, are artificially inseminated (and it isn't a very nice process)
3. What do you think happens to the offspring if it's male and thus uneconomical to keep?
The fact that these statements (which are incredibly obvious if you have an eighth grade education or higher) have to be spelled out is a testament to the power of the milk lobby that people think there are some bucolic scenes where farmkids go to milk Bessie each morning, who produces day in and day out without fuss.
- ornornor 3y agoThe fact you’re getting downvoted so much also illustrates how much our species is willing to hide our head in the sand and buy the milk lobbies’ lies.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI just really like cheese and yogurt and milk and other cow milk products.
- ornornor 3y agoIt doesn’t change the suffering and abuse involved in making it. Downvoting parent won’t make that go away even if you don’t like hearing it. I love cheese too. I was eating some almost every day growing up in cheese country. But I gave it up once I learned the cost of making it in term of animal abuse and pollution. We mostly gave up raping and pillaging so maybe one day we’ll also vastly reduce the abuse we inflict onto the billions of animals we “raise”…
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI did not downvote, just wanted to share that me, and maybe many like me are not buying the milk industries’ lies. I would support legislation that increased quality of life for cows and all animals.