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> - A lot of data is collected for each cow and processed by an external company. This goes down to temperature measurements at each teat in the milking robot.

> - A lot of data is collected for each cow and processed by an external company. This goes down to temperature measurements at each teat in the milking robot. The external company monitors each cow and plans individual treatment to prevent diseases and to optimize milk production. Very unfortunate for cows that they're able to produce milk for human consumption.

eru 2y ago
Evolutionary speaking, being tasty and able to produce milk for human consumption has been an extremely successful strategy for cows. Of course, the individual cow might (or might not!) disagree.
inglor_cz 2y ago
Now imagine how unfortunate it is to be a big, challenging game for human hunt... Compared to aurochs, the cows are thriving. (On a side note, I just saw a mounted skeleton of an aurochs yesterday, in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. That beast was huge, and it would look even more overwhelming to medieval or Iron Age people, who were on average shorter than us; I am 6 ft and that animal was as tall as me. That is probably why it was so prestigious to hunt one, I can't even imagine a close combat with that. But it was hunted to extinction.)
- ClumsyPilot 2y ago
  > Compared to aurochs, the cows are thriving This depends on the level of empathy you have for cows. If you empathise with them as you would with humans, imagine making the same argument to justify slavery One could argue industrial farms are fate worse than death
  - freilanzer 2y ago
    This is what I wanted to convey with my original comment. It seems people think having millions of enslaved cows living in horrible conditions is an advantage for cows compared with "less successful species". I imagine the cows see it very differently.
jajko 2y ago
If cows would be useless to humans, their population would be probably in hundreds/thousands globally, or we would let their whole sub-species just die. Milking is the least bad thing we do to them, I would recommend focusing more on other parts of farming/ranching if you care.
- freilanzer 2y ago
  > If cows would be useless to humans, their population would be probably in hundreds/thousands globally, or we would let their whole sub-species just die. I think the cows would prefer that.

eru 2y ago

Evolutionary speaking, being tasty and able to produce milk for human consumption has been an extremely successful strategy for cows. Of course, the individual cow might (or might not!) disagree.

inglor_cz 2y ago

Now imagine how unfortunate it is to be a big, challenging game for human hunt... Compared to aurochs, the cows are thriving. (On a side note, I just saw a mounted skeleton of an aurochs yesterday, in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. That beast was huge, and it would look even more overwhelming to medieval or Iron Age people, who were on average shorter than us; I am 6 ft and that animal was as tall as me. That is probably why it was so prestigious to hunt one, I can't even imagine a close combat with that. But it was hunted to extinction.)

ClumsyPilot 2y ago
> Compared to aurochs, the cows are thriving This depends on the level of empathy you have for cows. If you empathise with them as you would with humans, imagine making the same argument to justify slavery One could argue industrial farms are fate worse than death
- freilanzer 2y ago
  This is what I wanted to convey with my original comment. It seems people think having millions of enslaved cows living in horrible conditions is an advantage for cows compared with "less successful species". I imagine the cows see it very differently.

jajko 2y ago

If cows would be useless to humans, their population would be probably in hundreds/thousands globally, or we would let their whole sub-species just die. Milking is the least bad thing we do to them, I would recommend focusing more on other parts of farming/ranching if you care.

freilanzer 2y ago
> If cows would be useless to humans, their population would be probably in hundreds/thousands globally, or we would let their whole sub-species just die. I think the cows would prefer that.