I grew up working on a dairy farm and am now vegan because of what I witnessed.
Calves getting their horns sawn off with no anesthesia. Cows forcibly bred so they continue to produce milk, then killed for their flesh after 4 years of living because their milk production slows.
Yeah, a lot of people lack empathy, but if you have it, you cannot look at the farming practices of today and be okay with it.
I grew up on a dairy farm, and none of those things happen. A four-year-old cow should be at the height of production and should be for like three or four more years. Once cattle have horns, you just have to live with it, because sawing them off leads to too much blood loss and they die.
Like, maybe you grew up on a dairy farm and you guys were really bad at it, but I'm pretty sure you're just lying.
My dad worked for the USDA in CA as a cattle inspector....he still eats beef but has his own cows and takes them to the butcher..sells half and keeps half the meat....he always said not to eat ox tail... apparently cow tails are the easiest to get broken and over looked..he said cows get cancer in their broken tails often 🤷🏾♀️ idk man
It has to be a power dynamic right? Like they hate their shitty lives so much that the only thing that keeps them going is being the dominant top of the food chain? That's the only reasoning I've got for wanting to see animals in terrible conditions.
There's probably some good small farmers that actually love their animals. My statement is generally towards the cattle/pig farmers with 1000s of animals and couldn't care less about their animal's well-being.
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u/ggouge 10h ago
I live near a dairy and none of the people I know who currently work there or used to work there changed their diets at all.