No. Go vegan if you actually care about animals
Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?
Submitted 2 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lely-dairy-robots
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Zoldyck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
NoisyFlake@lemm.ee 2 days ago
For real, this has nothing to do with animal welfare. The cows still get forcefully impregnated every so often and have their calves taken away, just so you can drink their milk. Supermarkets are full of tasty plant milk variants, yet most people still see the need to let cows suffer instead.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Oat is GOAT
(The acronym, not the animal)
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Betteridge’s law applies. The answer to a yes-no headline question is always no.
lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No. Not raping and abusing them for selfish human wants makes cows happier. This is the stupidest shit ever.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 1 day ago
I lived on a dairy farm. They are not abused like cattle for beef production. And are you saying in-fertilization is rape? Because I mean. Normal Stud mounting is far worse than an arm up ones vagina.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
no one is raping cows
lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Someone doesn’t know how dairy farms work…
jennraeross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cows cannot consent to insemination by humans. And yet that’s what the industry runs on (as well as taking their babies from them so we can have the milk instead, causing the poor mothers severe emotional distress). It’s messed up.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Imagine believing that carnists profiting from torture and murder give a shit about happier cows.
DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 2 days ago
There have been robots for cows for years. It‘s the SHIT PUSHER ROBOT. It‘s pushing away the straw and shit all the day. That’s useful automation imho.
joshchandra@midwest.social 2 days ago
Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn’t read the article.
recall519@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I don’t know. You tell me, headline.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
That’s not it’s job. It’s supposed to grab you. And hug you. Like a cow…
aeharding@vger.social 1 day ago
Anyone else watch 10th generation dairyman?
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
My wife’s cousins dairy farm has one of these robots. It’s like a big roomba that dispenses hay. The cows love that machine lol. He also has an automated cow hugger and cows like up to get squeezed by this machine. It’s pretty cool.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 day ago
We take your milk and your child, here is a robot that hugs you.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Okay, I joked in another comment, but I have to know more about this cow-hugging machine!
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.
I don’t want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
There’s a phone near me and they have two rotating brushes. They look like the things that wash your car in a drive in car wash, except with bristles rather than floppy mops.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Sounds like paradise!!! \s \s \s jfc.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You’re right. It’s horrible and evil and I should disavow both my wife and her cousin for participating in such a thing and burn the entire thing down and free the cows.