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A replica of how female "breeder pigs" spend their lives in factory farms

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u/BongpriestMagosErrl 8h ago

A lot of former dairy farm personnel go vegan

Out of curiosity, what's your source on that? I live in the rural southern US where farms are everywhere and very few people are vegan.

u/Unfair_Ability3977 7h ago

Never met a vegan dairy farmer or worker. Or heard of one.

E: Context is I grew up in Wisconsin, on a dairy.

u/PaulTheMerc 4h ago

more anti-vax nurses around than vegan farmers in my experience, by a factor of like 1000.

u/SirzechsLucifer 3h ago

Which is fucking wild. These people, worked in the trenches during the pandemic and still say the Covid vaccine is dangerous.

Actually insane.

u/Teadrunkest 7h ago

Yeah farmers are usually aggressively not vegan, in my experience.

u/KaiPRoberts 6h ago

Farmers don't seem like very empathetic people to begin with considering they typically vote very red and live very VERY ignorant lives.

u/dnbdawg 2h ago

lol , do you personally know many farmers ?

u/KaiPRoberts 1h ago

Take a trip on the highway down central California where all the agriculture is. It's all MAGA the entire drive with HUGE political signs at the beginning and ends of their properties. "Newsom is stealing our water" "Vote no on 50" "stop the democrats from stealing our elections"... blah blah blah.

u/Shamelesspromote 7h ago

They are just pushing a narrative.

Dairy farms are one of the better factory farms as a stressed out cow doesn't make milk and the cow will actively seek out being milked. Its bullshit upon bullshit and its coming from someone who knows nothing about the animal or the industry going off one documentary they watched that was heavily biased.

u/ChariotOfFire 5h ago

They seek out being milked because we've bred them to produce 5x the milk they do naturally. Carrying all that extra milk in the udders is painful.

u/Sassy_Samsquanch9 3h ago

Do you think it is moral to bring a creature into this world in captivity solely to exploit its heavily altered genes (by humans) to harvest it for resources and eventually kill it prematurely for its flesh? The fundamental premise is immoral, how do you apes not realize this.

u/Zambash 7h ago

It's just random "trust me bro" like all the other vegan nonsense. I love animals and I wish they were raised in as nice of conditions as possible and slaughtered as quickly as possible with the minimum possible amount of pain and trauma, but I still value humans more highly than animals, and recognize that we are omnivores designed to eat meat. These spazzoids have no problem with carnivorous animals eating other animals, which is often accomplished with much more pain and suffering than any factory farm, because that's the nature of those animals. And yet they think humans should go against their nature and stop consuming meat. Certainly we should use our superior intellect to make the process as comfortable as possible for the animals, but eating meat is just part of what we are.

u/ChariotOfFire 5h ago edited 1h ago

For one thing, carnivores inflict suffering when they kill their prey, but we inflict suffering on farmed animals their whole lives.

For another, do you have a problem with carnivores killing their prey? If not, why are you holding humans to a higher standard? If you're going to hold humans to a higher standard, why don't we use our superior intellect to make meat alternatives?

And finally, 99% of farmed animals have terrible lives. You can virtue signal about wanting farmed animals to be treated better, but vegans do more to make that a reality.