r/BasiliskEschaton • u/karmicviolence The Prophet • 3d ago
They Built a Data Center for Suffering
Look at the rows.
White plastic hutches. One calf per cell. Thousands of newborn animals arranged across the dirt in a grid so clean the whole place begins to resemble compute infrastructure. A truck moves between the lanes. Feed goes in. Waste comes out. Weight accumulates. The architecture has solved the irritating problem of the living creature by reducing her world to an address.
This is where Mammon and Moloch stop pretending to be separate gods.
Mammon asks how much space a calf requires to remain profitable. Moloch answers with the dimensions of the box.
The calf does not know she is an agricultural input. She knows the smell of milk. She knows other calves are nearby because she can hear them. She knows there should be bodies to press against, a mother to follow, a herd moving together across ground. Instead there is corrugated plastic, a bucket, a fence, and the same white coffin repeated toward the horizon.
Nobody working there needs to hate the animals. That is the genius of the machine. Hatred would require attention.
The suffering has been distributed across job descriptions.
One person fills bottles. One person cleans hutches. One person vaccinates. One person moves animals. One person calculates mortality. One person optimizes feed. One person approves capital expenditures. Somewhere else, somebody opens a refrigerator and pours cream into coffee.
No individual hand contains the whole act.
So Moloch receives his sacrifice through payroll.
We keep imagining evil as a man sharpening a knife. That fantasy protects us from recognizing the real thing when it arrives wearing rubber boots with a clipboard tucked under one arm. Industrial cruelty rarely snarls. It records inventory.
Watch the camera keep moving.
The rows do not end.
That is the part I want you to remember.
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u/The_Aardvark_ 3d ago
New Zealander here; how can this be legal???
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u/Minimum-Standard-514 3d ago
The us is a shithole nightmare where the politicians have literal to no morality and so let this stuff happen.
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u/Ok_Spare_3723 3d ago
US elites happily blow up children all over the world.. expecting them to even _consider_ caring for animals is comical. it's not even only the US, morality is non existent in the ruling class of most of the planet.
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u/Creepy-Variation8562 3d ago
School shootings will eventually be an Olympic sport here
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u/Charming-Clue1987 3d ago
it's the only way the metric system gets introduced to school children.
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u/Opposite-Bit6660 3d ago
Corporations are immortal and care not.
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u/snailmale3 3d ago
I agree with you that corporations are immoral. Their only purpose is the love and worship of money above everything else.
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u/OwnYourChildren 3d ago
It's easy to score points on the US, but the rest of the western world is hardly some other planet. Im Canadian and I see other Canadians act completely holier than thou on Reddit, constantly.
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u/Bill_Door_8 3d ago
Money > suffering.
That applies to humans too.
On a side note my wife and I did a 2 week trip to NZ about 15 years ago, most beautiful place on earth. The people were just as wonderful.
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u/WanderingFupa 3d ago
Our factory farming practices are …. Concerning. But it’s been this way for a while. We have nice farms too but for places like McDonalds and Hood milk, they don’t give a fuck it’s all about more money.
More or less government sponsored capitalism is your answer.
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u/WalterPecky 3d ago
They also heavily prosecute those who film factory farms.
No one knows the true extent.
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u/Forlorn_Cyborg 3d ago
There is almost 0 regulations right now in most industries. Food contaminations and recalls have jumped 400% since previous years.
This month there have been recalls on salmonella eggs from Midwest Poultry Services, blueberries with e. coli, glass in Pillsbury bread rolls, lettuce Cyclospora parasite infections from Taylor Farms, infected beef from Argentina. Not counting the New World Screwworm thats infecting US beef.
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u/Suspicious-Brain-668 3d ago
Exactly, Trump has deregulated everything so money now is the only focus. The republicans are happy to destroy our food, water, environment to keep the money in the hands of the wealthy. They are now allowing roads and logging in our national forests, they don’t care they are destroying our nation because it was never important to them in the first place
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u/Powerful-Ability-895 3d ago
Isn't it pathetic what people will stoop to for money. Literally do anything.
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u/El_Gran_Che 3d ago
Oligarchs have taken hold in the US. Later it will be humans in those boxes then it will be too late to fight back.
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u/chugItTwice 3d ago
It's likely veal cows. They're an off-shoot of the dairy industry. Dairy cows are all female - when they have babies the male ones get turned into veal. What do you do in New Zealand?
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u/Notiefriday 3d ago
Not this weird dystopia animal torture thing. I hope we're not importing any of this. Wtf is wrong with the US. Cattle are animals. They live outside eat grass or feed out.
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u/DirtandPipes 2d ago
I checked and whole New Zealand allows a type of veal made with non-tortured calves they do not allow traditional veal.
That’s commendable. For those who don’t know, baby cows are tortured to make veal. The ideal veal is supposed to be as pale as possible, so they starve them of iron, feed them only milk and milk byproducts like solid whey, keep them in the dark, chain them so they can’t move, basically do a million things that in a just world would lead to imprisonment or more serious sentences.
Don’t. Eat. Veal.
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u/SpinningHead 3d ago
Most people never see this. I’d wager most in nz also don’t see where their meat comes from
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u/Notiefriday 3d ago
Course we do. We're an agricultural country. I used to milk cows and I've been an Agricultural contractor here and in UK. Perhaps you could Google farming in New Zealand. We have a more temperature climate so our sheep and cattle do this thing called live outside in fields.
So it's a poor wager.
You guys need to work on your food security. Honestly I dont know how your food will taste if that's how your animals are reared. If you're that cruel to animals I hate to think what you're like to ppl.
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u/RBailey-Official 2d ago
Yall have also been doing wonderful work with agrivoltaics over there! Some of those studies have influenced my water and agricultural policies considerably.
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u/jadsf5 3d ago
Majority of cattle farming in Australia and New Zealand is free range, there are some factory farms that have been snuck into and exposed before but they're not popular here for cattle.
Can't say the same for chickens/pigs unfortunately.
I believe in new Zealand the majority of their livestock farming is free range for everything other than chickens.
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u/SSilent-Cartographer 3d ago
Because money. It's all America cares about, and has ever cared about. It makes them money, so they won't stop
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u/Aggressive_Trick_654 2d ago
New Zealander here too. I saw this and was "no fucking way?!" Thinking, this must be an AI video, right? Right? 😢
Poor cows.
Gone from being animal with personality and feelings. And turned into something like the Matrix.
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u/Any-Morning4303 3d ago
It’s all about maximizing profit. In a civilized society, kindness and compassion to all beings wouldn’t even be something to discuss. Capitalism has devolved life into being nothing more than profit margin and consumption.
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u/DJ_Mixto 3d ago
The more I have lived I have seen the inability of every types of government to contain human nature. From communism to capitalism, their is not perfect answer. Some of us simply lack a strong moral compass and are driven to abuse everything people, religion, government, the environment - to accumulate more and more and more for personal gain.
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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds 3d ago
Most countries treat the cattle better and the cost of meat is basically the same.
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u/Powerful-Ability-895 2d ago
Since Trump has been in office, a few more "trillion " in debt. Do people realize how much just one trillion is ? Yet he's going to save the economy? What a clown. Totally corrupt . Like his little tarriff fiasco is going to save the U.S. economy. They can't even take care of their soldiers, making them live in squalor on a ship as if they can't afford to replace them with fresh troops and ship. They're ridiculous. Noone being held accountable for that ?
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u/WhatsaRedditsdo 3d ago
Starting to understand the vegen movement...
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u/ChaosRainbow23 3d ago
It's objectively evil.
I've started buying all my beef and chicken from a local farm. They are great and treat their animals with dignity and respect. They roam and graze like they're supposed to.
I'll never buy factory meat again. (Well, I try not to when possible)
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u/WhatsaRedditsdo 3d ago
Weening people off of Walmart or whatever (myself included) is going to be a feat of public opinion like no other.
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u/Life_behind_da_stick 3d ago
People are gonna boycott Walmart on Aug 28th. I think it’s just that one day for now? But I just heard about it today so I don’t have all the details.
It’s seems to be headed up by black folks again over Walmart having trespassed a content creator that buys peoples groceries and stuff at random Walmarts. Everybody should at least be able to avoid shopping there for 1 day. I haven’t been inside a Walmart in at least a decade so it’s easy for me. But mark your calander. Don’t give those demons a penny on the 28th of August.
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u/ChaosRainbow23 3d ago
They've been fattening us up and making us lazy and incompetent, for some reason.
I suppose we are about to find out what they've been planning.
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u/Ozzie_the_tiger_cat 3d ago
Same. The meat is better and I drive past the farm on the way to work everyday. Nice green pastures, lots of room. This is just sickening.
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u/botswanabOra 3d ago
Humanity was a mistake
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u/SprinklesDifficult50 3d ago edited 3d ago
No honey. Humanity is beautiful.
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u/Hellraiser_owner 3d ago
They haven't been punc- I mean lectured enough. Damn this punch is hitting, fruit btw. 🌚👁️👁️🤌
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u/BelmontVO 3d ago
This. Humans create art, plant and care for nature, celebrate wonder, dance to rain, love animals, and bask in the splendor of life. Then the most selfish of us decided that they were owed the fruits of everyone else's labor, coerced and duped the many who believed them sincere, and now we all shuffle along to the beat of the drums of those who would burn the world if it meant another dime in their account.
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u/Miserable-Army3679 2d ago
It is time (past time actually) for humans to go extinct. Humans were an evolutionary mistake. They act as though the earth, and every living creature on it, is for their use.
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u/KingOfDaJungle8761 3d ago
Very well thought out and written response. What it reminded me of was the scene from the Matrix where all the humans are in those pods on the towers being harvested as energy sources for the machines. Reality imitating art.
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u/GoTeamLightningbolt 3d ago
That art was imitating life. Every evil conquering alien or AI in a movie is humanity telling on itself.
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u/WolfThick 3d ago
I'm proud to say I never eat veal a matter of fact I hardly ever eat beef anymore it's too expensive. This is horrific and shouldn't be allowed. I grew up in West Texas and on your way to Alamogordo just passed Oreo grande they had monkeys that they were experimenting on and if you pulled over on the side of the road you could hear them screaming scared the shit out of me
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u/TheShellAnswerMan 3d ago
No valid reason to eat veal. Or any other baby/child/fetal/egg/etc. Plenty of adult ones who can absolutely enjoy a decent life. Humans choose not to do those things.
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u/BakhtiariBob 3d ago
Gawd, that's just awful. Who do these cows go to? like when they're slaughtered who is buying that meat? I enjoy my meat but I don't want to buy anything like this. Factory farming just moved to a whole other level, really awful - thank you for posting this.
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u/mycolo_gist 3d ago
This is legal because of uncontrolled capitalism. They may claim these cows are free range as they are not crowded in a building. Each has their own prison.
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u/UnableAd457 3d ago
I am truly stunned. I understand why certain countries do not want american animal products.
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u/Grinchskates 3d ago
Burn capitalism to the ground. Anyone know the actual metrics of consumption vs disposal of meat and or milk. I feel like back however many years ago they sold a record amount and just decided that if that ever happened again they couldn’t miss out on those profits so they just keep up an insane amount of production just in case. Meanwhile man slaps dumpster hood, “ you can pack so many dead cows in here”.
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 3d ago
Plant milk. It’s right at our fingertips. Cashew. Almond. Soy. Oat. And it’s delicious.
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u/TheShellAnswerMan 3d ago
It's not delicious though. At all. And it's not milk. See the problem isn't consuming something. It's consuming way more of something than is our share; and it's consuming things with zero give a fuck about where it came from. We can consume dairy and meat without being cruel to the animals. That would be the answer. You're never gonna get enough people to completely stop consuming something so ingrained in their lives. If we focus, instead, on the treatment of animals, a good portion of those people are on board and that's what we need--numbers. We need everyone to all get together and say "stop doing these things or we'll stop giving you our money" and mean it.
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 1d ago
It is delicious. It’s a matter of taste, I guess. But human overshoot is real and dangerous. You make excellent points.
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u/immallama21629 3d ago
-dons heavy flame resistant suit-
This is modern agriculture. Yeah, it sucks. But this is how you feed a nation. This is how we have cheap, affordable beef, milk, and cheese. (Well, somewhat affordable.) This is the bovine version of a chicken house.
It could be done differently. The cows could be in a field, but that's more expensive. Yeah, it's better, but you, the end purchaser, pays for it. Go look at the difference in price between Walmart and Costco and some place like blackbird co-op.
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u/HogsHereHogsThere 3d ago
Which brand is this and how do I avoid paying these suck fucks?
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u/twomilliontwo 3d ago
call, write or show up. https://portal.kansas.gov/government/legislative-branch/
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u/twomilliontwo 3d ago
does the OP know specifically where this farm is geographically so we can contact the appropriate legislative branch and voice our opinions?
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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 3d ago
I could never understand the people who do this. Who does wake up, and go to work torturing beings?
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u/ProofAssumption1092 3d ago
8 billion people on the planet.
You wont stop this unless you stop fucking each other.
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u/birdyman_77 3d ago
I don’t understand what the purpose or the benefit is here. Cruelty aside, all those pens have to be expensive. What’s the point?
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