8ball
Decolonise colons!
(and no, one should not kiss the cow after one AIs it)
Cigarette and a cuddle it is, then.
(and no, one should not kiss the cow after one AIs it)
The act of AI doesn't cause the cows much distress, does it? Bit of discomfort, perhaps, and maybe not even that.You've made many mistakes here. First, not experiencing something first hand doesn't mean that not witnessed it - I have witnessed footage of AI for example. And even if somebody hasn't witnessed a practice, they can still read about it and form assessments about it. I've never witnessed a murder - and I hope you haven't either - but we can still make moral assessments about murder.
But your idiocy runs deeper. You seem unable to grasp the incredibly simple point that people who participate in a practice might not always be in the best position to ethically evaluate it. Clear example - do you think a serial murderer is in a better position to understand murder than you because they've committed a bunch of murders and you haven't?
Youd have to light it for her, but then, I suppose that is the gentlemanly thing to do.Cigarette and a cuddle it is, then.
... forcibly constraining a female mammal, anally fisting her and injecting semen into her vagina so you can forcibly impregnate her, kidnap and murder her kids and subject her to lifetime of reproductive slavery ...
He will put his hand up the cows bum to find the cervix by pressing down - he then knows where to place the AI rod (vaginally) to inseminate correctly.Wait where was the anal fisting??
For me lots of livestock stuff is pretty grim. But a lot of stuff with food production is pretty grim if you watch videos of it.
This is the world we want - and will get! Get rid of the animal abusers and throat slitters entirely and replace them with precision fermentation. What could be better?
Just shows how clueless some people are. Your problem is you are anthropomorthising the animals. The objective of most living things is to reproduce. You must have heard that rabbits breed like er rabbits?Great, so in your (and Shiva's) pseudo-ecofeminist universe planting a crop is rape but forcibly constraining a female mammal, anally fisting her and injecting semen into her vagina so you can forcibly impregnate her, kidnap and murder her kids and subject her to lifetime of reproductive slavery is fine because some women do it. Further proof that animal ag apologists are morally bankrupt.
Just shows how clueless some people are. Your problem is you are anthropomorthising the animals. The objective of most living things is to reproduce. You must have heard that rabbits breed like er rabbits?
When a female dog is in heat it will quite happily let all other dogs shag it. Why do you think it would be different for cows, sheep, pigs or any other farm animal?
As an anus is as stretchy as a vagina why do you think that a hand up a cows arse, that is way smaller than a calf, would be any problem for a cow?
And why would an AI device that is a lot smaller still be a problem in a cows vagina?
Some people really need to learn a lot more about animals.
So what object smaller than a baby would you like up your stretchy anus tonight?Just shows how clueless some people are. Your problem is you are anthropomorthising the animals. The objective of most living things is to reproduce. You must have heard that rabbits breed like er rabbits?
When a female dog is in heat it will quite happily let all other dogs shag it. Why do you think it would be different for cows, sheep, pigs or any other farm animal?
As an anus is as stretchy as a vagina why do you think that a hand up a cows arse, that is way smaller than a calf, would be any problem for a cow?
And why would an AI device that is a lot smaller still be a problem in a cows vagina?
Some people really need to learn a lot more about animals.
Given that it's only cows that are AI'd like that (pigs is a different technique, the catheter "locks" into the sow's cervix by twisting because the tip is corkscrew shaped like a boars penis) and sheep are not routinely AI'd, I'd say the anus doesn't stretch very much because it's reasonably easy to get your arm in there and the cow shows no sign of discomfort.
Cows are quite capable of kicking you if they want to.
They can spin the tip, yes - I used to work on a boar stud where semen is collected for AI.I guess that corkscrew business means a lot of gyration.
Being gay I can think of lots.So what object smaller than a baby would you like up your stretchy anus tonight?
The combined methane emissions of 15 of the world’s largest meat and dairy companies are higher than those of several of the world’s largest countries, including Russia, Canada and Australia, according to a new study.
The analysis from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Changing Markets Foundation found that emissions by the companies – five meat and 10 dairy corporations – equate to more than 80% of the European Union’s entire methane footprint and account for 11.1% of the world’s livestock-related methane emissions.
Methane, expelled by cows and their manure, is far more potent than carbon dioxide, trapping heat 80 times more effectively and emissions are accelerating rapidly, according to the UN.
One figure I'd want to know is what proportion of the 40% of human-activity-related methane emission that is attributed to livestock is actually new emission rather than replacing the ruminants that came before. Similarly, how much of the paddy field emission is 'new'? And finally, of course, emissions from oil and gas drilling may only make up 20% of the human-related budget but presumably all of that is 'new'.
It's colonialism - imagined wildernesses by urban, wealthy northern Europeans/North Americans, completely ignoring rural populations, rendering them "unnatural" in their native landscape.This is the weakest point of the the simplistic solutions of the likes of Monbiot. They fail to consider the world as it actually is and the cultures and ways of life of the people in it. People like Monbiot must sound like voices from an alien planet to a Maasai cow herder or an Indian dairy farmer
The problem with this is that it doesn't really tell us anything.Yet more evidence stacks up of the damage caused to the environment by the meat and dairy industry:
Methane emissions from 15 meat and dairy companies rival those of the EU
Combined emissions from 15 companies equate to more than 80% of EU’s entire methane footprint, study findswww.theguardian.com
This is my concern. The extraction and burning of fossil fuels is the major issue here. It is more important than everything else put together, but you wouldn't guess that sometimes. Fundamentally, this is the 'new' greenhouse gas contribution that has driven the changes in the planet's climate.It's a good way to distract ourselves from fossil fuels though I guess.
It means people should eat fewer meat and dairy products and factory farming should be ended.The problem with this is that it doesn't really tell us anything.
It sounds shocking: some corporate titans emit more than some countries. But what does that actually mean in real terms?
tbf I don't have such a problem with city-types talking like that. Living in a city, I also appreciate the idea of 'getting away'. When I was a kid, I used to take myself away to places where I couldn't see any person or building. Of course I was still inside a landscape shaped by human activity, but I had a need to feel that I was away from it somehow.It's colonialism - imagined wildernesses by urban, wealthy northern Europeans/North Americans, completely ignoring rural populations, rendering them "unnatural" in their native landscape.
The intellectual groundwork is being laid here too, for a new Highland clearances for massive "carbon offset" tree planting excercises.
Once a year I lose myself in the Hebrides to walk and think – before going back to the life I love
Look at the language here - how many times the author only considers himself and how the inhabitants of the Western Isles are completely airbrushed from the landscape. Reading it, you'd think nobody lived there.
Which people?It means people should eat fewer meat and dairy products and factory farming should be ended.
You did read the article, yes?
As many people as practically possible.Which people?
Yes it provided no information.It means people should eat fewer meat and dairy products and factory farming should be ended.
You did read the article, yes?
Indian lacto-vegetarians not so much, then. Dairy is a very important part of their diet, not to mention their culture.As many people as practically possible.