• Fleur_@aussie.zone
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    Hahaha in reality the cows are treated perfectly well! They’re only forcibly impregnated for their entire lives to facilitate a constant cycle of lactation and seperated from their children at birth. Perfectly happy cows! Your milkshake is worth it! :D

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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      17 hours ago

      Don’t worry! Synthetic milk is right around the corner (within a couple of decades), soon we’ll be able to save the cows. They’ll get to retire to a farm somewhere and live happily ever after.

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          Yeah, Remilk is building a big factory (“the world’s largest fermentation facility”) here in Denmark to produce synthetic milk, but I wasn’t aware if it was going to be used for consumer milk products straight away. Feels like it still needs some development.

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        13 hours ago

        The dairy and beef lobbies would like to have a word with you, if you’ll please just step a little to the right?

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        Cows can cry. Did you even know that? When they bellow and cry actual tears for weeks or months after their children are stolen from them, we can be pretty fucking certain they are not happy about it.

        Cows are herd animals. Herd animals are more socially sophisticated than even we are. They feel very deeply. They experience empathy. Do you?

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        I feel like we need to begin this conversation by establishing that I can’t talk to cows