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DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Trying to be “facts forward” so make of this what you will. Source: I was in FFA in highschool in a beef intense-ish area.

The method of collecting semen I’m most familiar with is when they take a female cow in heat and tie her up, then bring a male bull they want to collect semen from into the same pen. The male will smell the female is in heat, gets erect, and will attempt to mount her.

As the male is trying to mount the female, people in the pen with the cattle will have a large rubbery “sleeve” on a pole (imagine a cow sized condom on a stick) that they will maneuver around the bull’s penis as it mounts the cow. He does his thing in the condom thinking he’s inside the female (usually less than 30 seconds) dismounts and then the ranchers have their semen for artificial insemination.

I’ve been out of that area for over a decade now a new method may have emerged since then, but in my Animal Sciences class, that’s how we were taught semen is harvested for most livestock.

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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
TBF that one sounds consensusl

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- DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Eh, I feel like the female cow is still getting a raw deal. Less raw than the classic “breed this bull with this cow” arrangement, but still somewhat not good.
  
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bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You left out the rest, where the calf is seperated from its mother, tortured and killed for veal, while the mother mourns the loss of her child that the milk she produces is actually for, so the milk can be stolen from her for profit.

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- Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Found the vegan
  
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  - bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Did you know that one of the common methods of turning pigs into pork is to lower them into a chamber filled with carbon dioxide so that the pigs asphyxiate to death? They scream out in agony while dying. Pigs are as intelligent as dogs, if not moreso.
    
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- goedel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  almost no calves end up as break at all. the cat majority are brought to full weight before slaughter
  
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  - mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    hahahahahahahaha I know that style of “arguing” from somewhere… neocat, laugh, tears
    
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    goedel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    stating facts to correct misinformation is a style, i guess.
    
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protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
there is a new method of eletrical rectal stimulation that stimulates the prostate through the anus, afaik only used on bovines

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- DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ew.
  
  So that is to say, as far as you know, the method I describe above more or less still applies for pigs, sheep, etc?
  
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  - protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    yes those methods are pretty universal
    
    ew? heh, thats not even the worst stuff, look up how artificial semination is done in goats, it is really bad, efectively a surgery has to be done
    
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