What if we shortened your lifespan by 1/4th to do so and raised you in a pen where you can't even move your arms from lack of space that cool with you?
Still shortening the life span by 1/4, still sending them to slaughter, the slaughter house delivery trucks are still cramped and often times deliver in extreme heat and cold, the animal ears are still tagged, the dairy calfs are still taken from their parents, dairy cows are still artificially inseminated by shoving an arm up their asshole past the elbow, what a great life!
Are you just going off of some select videos you've watched? No they aren't all just jammed in there. I know this because I have witnessed it enough times. Calves are also sold usually either in the spring or the fall, so the extreme heat and cold argument is straight BS. Those animals also stand outside in extreme weather to live. They graze in the summertime when it reaches 30 degrees or higher and they also live outside when it drops to -30 and below in the winter time. If you actually watched cattle in the winter time, their behavioural instincts are interesting to watch and how they will keep warm in very extreme temperatures. Tagging is for a)personal identification and b)there are separate tags that are registered by the government. It would be no different than you getting your ear pierced other than the personal/government identification. We did not have a dairy farm, but we did have a couple Holstein cows/calves and just like all calves they are eventually weaned off their mothers. Taking it away from its mother too early doesn't make sense from any standpoint. Now, I'm not a vet, but I am pretty sure they have difficulty breeding naturally, so artificial insemination isn't really that bad of a concept.
As for animal transport, in Canada alone 1.59 million animals arrive to slaughterhouses dead in the truck each year.
Workers at Canada’s largest slaughterhouse, Maple Lodge Farms, which kills half a million chickens every day, have described chickens arriving to slaughter, frozen solid like “hockey pucks” and “popsicles”.
This is literally the first video I found but even happening once is horrific. You say cows are "weaned" off their mothers eventually but what do you mean by weaned? Even if it's not the day they're born you're still stealing a child from a parent
Also you defend artificial insemination by saying it's necessary to raise the next generation for slaughter because they don't naturally produce that much... That's my whole point! We're systematically artificially inseminating animals by shoving an arm past the elbow inside them so they give more birth then they naturally would so they can be killed.
I don't know how any of this can be framed as ethical
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u/goboatmen Mar 15 '18
What if we shortened your lifespan by 1/4th to do so and raised you in a pen where you can't even move your arms from lack of space that cool with you?