Bae, considering you are the solid food, might want to ask fewer questions.
Time to grow up.
Submitted 7 months ago by QuaffPotions@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Daft_ish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
neshura@bookwormstory.social 7 months ago
Yes but actually no.
Thanks to industrial grade food production meat cows and dairy cows are two entirely separate breeds by now. Old school cows you were able to butcher once they died of old age or whatever and get a decent cut of meta out of that. Modern cows are bred to either produce more milk or to produce more meat. Which on one end results in cows too thin to be butcherable and on the other end results in cows with too little nutrients in their body to produce any excess milk.
I say we go back to the old ways of mixed use cows and live with the reduced milk and meat output. What most people drink might as well be colored water given all the fat gets filtered out of the milk so switching to an alternative shouldn’t be a problem (aside from getting used to not drinking cow milk and instead whatever milk is to their liking)
Pipoca@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What do you imagine happens to old dairy cattle? We just compost them?
Dairy cattle absolutely get slaughtered for food. If you eat them, though, they were probably in your burger or hotdog.
That’s because older animals are less tender than young animals, and consumers prefer tender meat.
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The only issue you’re missing is this. If 5 dairy plus 5 meat cows yield 20% more total food now than 10 cows yielded then, focusing on the perceived waste of not eating a milk cow is fallacy. Is there a substantive argument that we are using cows less efficiently than we did a century ago?
What most people drink might as well be colored water given all the fat gets filtered out of the milk
Per the Mayo Clinic, it’s tough to beat dairy milk for balanced nutrition. That is even (or especially) with the excess fat removed and reserved for other products. Switching to an alternative is generally a nutrition problem. Only fortified and unsweetened soymilk comes close.
And one could argue it is the least palatable alternative. Calls to mind “instead of a doughnut, eat an apple”-style dietary replacement advice. Except in this case, there’s no huge nutritional gain like those stupid “instead ofs” have.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cheese is a solid food.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No. Mrs cow, *leans in and whispers sensually “I need your milk to make me feel good” as I make eye contact and continue milking.
___f____g___@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
*weaning
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Weening is the process by which one listens to the band Ween and grows to like even the weirdest albums.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thank you.
zouhair@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Two words: Butter and cheese.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m trying to find a way out of cheese. No luck yet, and I can’t really afford it either.
Gave up meat though, so I’m happy so far. Let’s see what clever scientists come up with for the rest 😎
dx1@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Gave up cheese/milk/eggs ages ago. There isn’t a one for one replacement, but pizza is junk food anyway, my diet shifted to replacements that were better for me in the end (and imho tastier).
rurutheguru@lemmings.world 7 months ago
This recipe is what made it possible for our family as a cheese substitute:
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
That’s the neat part, we don’t.
I know people who gave up veganism purely because of the cheese. It’s fucking delicious.
menemen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, no meat? Maybe. But no yoghurt? Just fucking kill me.
Emerald@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That cow speaks the truth.
SrTobi@feddit.de 7 months ago
The reasoning falls for the “appeal to nature” fallacy. Only because in nature no other animal drinks the baby-food of another species, doesn’t follow we shouldn’t do it. Same would be: “no other animal pumps the dead bodies of other species from the earth to burn them in mini engines to avoid the inconvenience of walking a few miles” I mean there are other good reasons, but nature is not one of them.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 7 months ago
no other animal drinks the baby-food of another species,
that’s not even true
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
“For the last time, Bessie, I’m a god damn cheese maker! It will be solid food!”
alloloto@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Judging by the horns, this milk is going to taste a bit salty
oldGregg@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s not how it works. Female cows can have horns.
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Those horns are pretty huge for a cow.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Its super nutritious. Dont let it go to waste
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Good point, it is wasteful. Maybe instead of letting it rot in the food supply chain and on supermarket shelves we should let baby calves drink it, or stop forcefully impregnating dairy cows in the first place.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Wait what. We subsidize it to keep the price low and then dairy farmers pour it down the drain to keep the price from going too low.
SickPanda@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I ain’t gonna eat my cereals with water
Emerald@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can eat them with oat milk, soy milk, flax milk, rice milk, almond milk, coconut milk, pea milk, and many more.
socksy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
My personal recommendation is only one at a time though
firala@feddit.de 7 months ago
Just use oat milk??
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They said I ain’t gonna eat my cereals with water
Elocomanzo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why?
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I had a friend who had orange juice with cereal instead of milk. I figured that was super-weird, and so I never tried it. But… trying stuff and liking unusual things is fine.
CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Y’know, you’re right… Starts making cheese
affiliate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
frozen milk it is
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
Ice cream!
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Nope
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com 7 months ago
That’s funny
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Where’s my cattle prod god damnit
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
“Know what Bessie? You’re right.”
BLAM
“Honey fire up the grill! Steaks tonight!”
Teppichbrand@feddit.de 7 months ago
Lol, killing her after abusing her. So edgy and original! Never heard that joke before.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 7 months ago
milking cows isn’t abuse
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Haha yes I love to kill and eat someone whose breast I’ve suckled at
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 months ago
Damn, I’m really sorry to hear about your mom.
hark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s weird, I get my milk from the grocery store. Do you recommend I drink directly from the source like you do?
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
She deserves nothing less for spelling it as “weening”.