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In reply to the discussion: Photo of Newborn Calf Drinking Milk From a Hose Will Make You Rethink Dairy (*Warning graphic photo) [View all]Tarc
(10,476 posts)50. One out-of-context photo and editorializing form some vegan whackadoos
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Photo of Newborn Calf Drinking Milk From a Hose Will Make You Rethink Dairy (*Warning graphic photo) [View all]
Beringia
May 2019
OP
Eeeewww! All I ever needed to know about mother's milk I learned from Mad Max
ProudLib72
May 2019
#38
I think it is standard to take away the calf, because the farmers want the cow's milk
Beringia
May 2019
#12
I think when someone says forcibly impregnated, they are referring to artificial insemination
Beringia
May 2019
#74
Veal is Milenniums older than the concept of Veganism, which is a late 20th century concept.
Blue_true
May 2019
#13
You turned city because you can go to the supermarket and the chicken is already dead and dressed
Blue_true
May 2019
#22
Is your anecdotal experience a standard or an aberration within the industry?
LanternWaste
May 2019
#17
Demand? If the ultimate goal is to feed hungry people we wouldn't be raising livestock at all.
Doremus
May 2019
#21
No, not 'maybe'. Ruminants' methane production (mostly burps) from eating grass is far larger
muriel_volestrangler
May 2019
#66
There is no fiber in meat, that's why no gas. It sits in the intestines and rots until the body can
Doremus
May 2019
#80
Without using livestock to cycle soil nutrients, you are left with synthetic fertilizers
NickB79
May 2019
#42
We starve people when we expend more energy in producing food than we receive in return.
Doremus
May 2019
#81
So what is your solution, other than people should not eat meat, which in itself
Blue_true
May 2019
#82
I read your title as "from a horse" and didn't know what I was going to see.
Cuthbert Allgood
May 2019
#26
Humans are excellent at not thinking about the suffering behind products they eat, use and wear,
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2019
#29
Most people are by nature unthinking. That does not make them evil in itself.
Blue_true
May 2019
#35
Because mom cow can't deliver it in any other way than piping it through a hose...
Doremus
May 2019
#44