Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"

• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Right, but we do need more cows in the long run.

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    a) we don’t b) they can happily fuck on their own, it just makes it harder to exploit them for their body fluids. Nobody cares about the calves, they are just needed for the mothers to lactate

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t it make more sense to simply induce lactation than go through the whole rigmarole of artificial insemination and then having to dispose of the unwanted calves?

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      • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you don’t tear a postpartum cow and its calf apart the milk just ain’t that tasty

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      • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Apparently not, otherwise that’s what farmers would do. Milk production is not an on-off thing either. There is milk for newborns (colostrum) for older babies, there is less fatty and more fatty milk, milk production is a wondrous thing that is regulated by the babies saliva, the moms hormones, how much milk got eaten, how the baby looks even. You can be breastfeeding two kids, if you consistently feed breast A to kid A and breast B to kid B the milk they produce will be different!

        And that’s what the farmer is taking away from the mom. Using prolactin to induce milk production is also very error prone and not reliable. At least in humans afaik but I don’t see why it should be that different for cows.

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  • MrSmith@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We, in fact, do not.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can find cows that fuck, no need to insert yourself into the reproductive cycle of cows.

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    • Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can find cows that fuck,

      are they in my area

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    we need more cows

    Absolute slaver brained person

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah, just for eating, they don’t need to work. We got tractors for that.

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      • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s worse. You understand that this is worse right?

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