• @[email protected]
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    378 months ago

    Cows need to be pregnant to produce milk so dairy cows are artificially inseminated throughout most of their lives.

    They don’t tell you this in school.

    • @[email protected]
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      178 months ago

      Not only that but the calves would require a large percentage of that milk, and so a byproduct of dairy farms is often veal, at least for the male calves.

    • @kcuf
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      118 months ago

      It’s obvious but blew my mind when I was told that

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      78 months ago

      Then after only 4-5 years of this they are slaughtered because the milk production begins to diminish.

    • @Nounka
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      -18 months ago

      They do tell it in school. What is meat. Vegan vegetarian… Ethical working with animals … 11-12 year old classes btw.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        I don’t remember ever getting a class like that, and if they tried to put one in they’d invite the considerably scary wrath of the farmers.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        I don’t remember any of that from school.

        I got one year of food wheel followed by 11 of food pyramid, and that was the extent of diet and nutrition.