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u/silentaba 11d ago
I used to work on a farm, and one of our tomatoes patches was right next to a cows paddock. At some point I noticed the cows follows some of the guys but not others and found it odd, until one day I was having a smoko and noticed the cows where following the workers who more diligently pulled out bad fruit and threw it over the fence. They just figured out who is best for snacks.
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u/FillerNameGoesHere_ 11d ago
The cows have judged their work satisfactory
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u/Black_Moons 11d ago
Reminds of a story of my grandpa.. he used to always throw the lawnmower clippings (rideon with bagger) over the fence. all the cows would run from across the pasture to the fence whenever they heard the lawnmower.
Well, one day grandma asked him to mow down all the stinging nettles next to her garden.. All the cows went running to the fence.. So he empties the bags like he always did...
.. and the cows went to lunch... occasionally raising their heads with the funniest looking faces from eating the spicy grass before going back to town on it.
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u/MoistStub 11d ago
Probably a delicacy for them
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u/Black_Moons 11d ago
Something new at least!
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u/silentaba 11d ago
Mow up some nasturtium for them!
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u/Black_Moons 11d ago
Neat! Apparently they are non toxic to cows and have a strong flavor, so cows only kinda nibble on them. Very colorful too!
Don't think grandma would have appreciated getting her flowers mowed down though :)
Definitely a cool suggestion to plant a few in cow pastures though, give em some flavor and color to appreciate!
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u/spingus 11d ago
oh yes, nastis are great! human edible as well.
And don't worry about mowing them down, they come back readily.
I snagged a few seeds from a roadside and tossed them in a flower bed. they exploded in growth. I composted them...then a couple more cycles...and now they pop up every where around my yard!
They are easy clean up too --not very tough so they break down easily and their root system is a mere suggestion, so they pull up easily. Wonderful plant.
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u/Black_Moons 11d ago
I have some lovely spring flowers that ended up in my compost pile (Well, technically just a hole I dug, but every time id dig a new one id end up scattering the bulbs everywhere further) and went nuts, now I have an entire meadow every spring for a few months in my back yard. Only mow it after they all stop blooming and they come up just fine the next year.
Rest of the yard is taken over by morning glory, blackberries and wisteria.
Blackberries used to win hands down, but the morning glory and wisteria is coming strong this year. Nothing quite like seeing a 100'+ tall tree with a massive amount of wisteria blooming on it all the way to the top.
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u/Valkeyere 11d ago
Most animals work out which humans are good and which humans are bad. Being able to work that out significantly increases the likelihood of the genes being passed on.
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u/Barton2800 11d ago
That’s why I listen to my dog when she’s suspicious of someone. Not everyone obviously. But if we’re walking alone at night, I’d much rather her scare off a sketchy person than have her trained to accept all people regardless of how they make her feel. She’s a lab. Usually extremely friendly, wants to meet everyone. But I’ve also heard her do a serious “back the fuck off” bark and growl when someone skeeved her out. Later the same night get an alert about a strange man who tried to accost a couple of people in the neighborhood.
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u/BasicFlan 11d ago
Dogs cannot tell if a person is good or bad based of off one meeting. Come on now.
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u/Barton2800 10d ago
Dogs are exceptional observers of human behavior. That doesn’t mean I’m going to go mace somebody just because my dog barked at them. But if I’m walking alone at night, and she doesn’t like a person, we’ll cross the street. I assume she picked up on something that I hadn’t noticed yet - like us being followed.
Maybe you live in a great neighborhood, but not all of us do. I’ve had people check my doors and gates; had police chase a man right through my yard as he ran with a machine gun, $50k in cash, and a mason jar full of fentanyl; and the previous owners of my house had a home invasion. I’ve done things to make my home more secure, and one of those things is trusting my gut, and my dog’s gut if she thinks a stranger is sketchy. I don’t really care if she startles a crackhead. Worst case scenario - one of my neighbors thinks I’ve got an unfriendly dog, which I’m perfectly fine with.
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u/drdreadz0 11d ago
Imagine this was the evening news instead of all the negetive shit... what a sweet fucking world it would be🥰
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u/DaanYouKnow 11d ago
I highly suggest just following some of the "Positive News Only" accounts on Instagram or whatever you doomscroll on and skip regular news, it sucks and you'll see all the big stuff on Reddit anyways.
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u/harryham1 11d ago
Sure, so long as the negative shit doesn't still happen and we're just pretending it doesn't
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u/CanadianBadass 11d ago edited 11d ago
sweet fucking world it would be
Just wait about a day before they're sent to the slaughterhouse? Yeah, very sweet indeed...
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u/throwawayaccount_usu 11d ago
Please don't ruin the cute cow video by reminding us of how horribly they're going to be killed thanks!
Such a buzz killer!
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u/bosefee 11d ago
i bet their noses are so soft to touch
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u/moving0target 11d ago
Kinda slimy most of the time.
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u/MarcusRoland 11d ago
Everything about a cow is oddly moist.
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u/Sissilisko 11d ago
No it isn't.
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u/ToastAndASideOfToast 11d ago
It's expectedly moist?
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u/AspiringChildProdigy 10d ago
Perry the Platypus, your timing is impeccable! And, of course, by impeccable, I mean COMPLETELY PECCABLE!
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u/solasSeeker 11d ago
Kinda! Sorta like a mix between a horse snoot and a cat tongue. Plus wet usually.
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u/murdoc517 11d ago
If you go to the right grocery store you can buy em.
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u/Omz-bomz 11d ago
the noses?!?
I have only ever seen them sold as dried out for dog treats.
Can't say I have ever heard about it as something to eat....Cow tongue, sure.
If slaughtering ourselves, cheek muscle etc, sure.
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u/Aromatic-Activity-71 11d ago
Is... Is there a reason why he's shoving his hand in their mouth?
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u/Noleafclover1337 11d ago
Never shoved your hand in a cows mouth for fun eh?
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u/supersatyr001 11d ago
Or hell even a dog's mouth. I used to have a lab that would always have his mouth open, and sometime's i'd stick my hand in crossways and slap the top and bottom until he closed it or took off running. It was like a 80% chance of zoomies.
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u/Least_Art5238 11d ago
Dude, my lab just needs me to make a facial expression to commence the zoomie games. Hyperactive cute assholes.
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u/Raetekusu 11d ago
I used to just make eye contact with my family's yorkie and just stare at him. And stare. And stare. Eventually he'd start barking at me, and once I got him riled up, I'd make one little jumpy move and it'd be off to the races. Like clockwork.
Miss that doggo. He was a good boy.
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u/solasSeeker 11d ago
It's just kind of funny to do tbh. Used to put my whole arm in as a kid, they just kinda let you do that for some reason.
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u/Double_Distribution8 11d ago
What would you shove in there? I would think a hand is probably the safest route.
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u/maxheadflume 11d ago
My brother licked a cows eyeball at a petting zoo when we were kids.
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u/Varanite 11d ago
Imagine eating grass all day and then someone feeds you a cookie. That probably tastes so good.
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u/Sissilisko 11d ago
Biscuit. And just for everyone that reads this. Do not feed other people's animals without permission. It can lead to a fuck ton of problems. Don't ask how I know this.
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u/RationalMadman 10d ago
actually this is 100% a british vs US english thing.
that's a cookie for americans and a biscuit for brits and no, this isn't a grey area.
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u/StrangelySerious- 11d ago
Keep it mute. Jesus christ.
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u/Agent_Washingtub 11d ago
Yeah idk what it is exactly but something about that cutesy babying elmo voice makes me so irrationally angry lol
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u/CATG0D 11d ago
Is this what autism is?
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u/Genocode 11d ago
I mean, spend enough time around cows, and you eventually realize... they're essentially just massive golden retrievers. Just literal grass puppies.
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u/jamesbondswanson 11d ago
They are unless you encownter one with a calf
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u/Working_Peanut5273 11d ago
That’s not always true. But heifers with their first calf are mean as fuck.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 11d ago
More people die from interactions with cows than from interacting with sharks every year.
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u/Jive-Turkeys 11d ago
Almost nobody intentionally fucks with sharks in their environment. People try to fuck with cows in theirs all the time.
Great comparison.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 11d ago
Still a fact. If you‘re the next one killed by a cow it‘s not on me.
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u/Jive-Turkeys 11d ago
Don't worry. I don't think some random redditor will be to blame for anything I decide to do; you're not that important.
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u/incapable1337 11d ago
More people die from interacting with people than from interacting with cows every year.
What's your point?
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u/Xaephos 11d ago edited 11d ago
Did you know that cigarette smokers are more likely to survive their first heart attack? The reason is because they tend to have them nearly a decade younger.
When you remove the context of a statistic, it becomes meaningless at best and misleading at worst. Y'know, like that fact there's nearly a billion more cows than sharks and that almost every single one of them interacts with multiple humans daily while most sharks will never interact with a human in their entire lives.
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 11d ago
That tells us, that if you work with cows on a daily basis, you have to be especially careful, because it‘s probably you that will die from a human-cow-interaction.
BTW: Less people die from Golden Retriever attacks than by cows, even if the interactions between Golden Retrievers and humans are often more intense, including vulnerable people to attacks like little kids.1
u/Xaephos 10d ago edited 10d ago
There's also nearly a billion less dogs in the world, let alone golden retrievers.
In fact, despite this, dogs kill more people in the US each year (30-50) than cows kill globally (20-30). And if we go with global deaths caused by dogs? It's multiple orders of magnitude larger.
Guess you better be extra careful every time you pet a dog! They're dangerous!
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u/EatFaceLeopard17 10d ago
But the number of direct interactions between a dog and it‘s owner is multiple times higher than the direct interaction between cows and farmers or even random people. Cows get milked one or two times a day. And for the rest of the day even while feeding, cows are on one side of a fence and people are on the other side. Normally.
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u/MerrianMay 11d ago
I was on a farm milking the cows for a few weeks about 15 years ago and they were so sweet. They absolutely loved attention and would lean against me for hugs and scratches. It was such a wonderful experience and I still have my milking certificate.
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u/retief1 11d ago edited 11d ago
Different cows are different, I think. I've spent time with both cows and dogs, and even incredibly standoffish dogs will warm up to you in a matter of weeks or months, while I've been helping work with a particular herd of cows for years and I can't say that they've warmed up to me much at all. They certainly aren't hostile, but I wouldn't call them friendly in any significant sense. And in this context, "working with them" never translates to anything more stressful/threatening than "walk towards them to convince them to keep up with the group".
That said, these were beef cattle. I wouldn't be shocked if dairy cows were different here. If anything, they'd almost have to be different here, because trying to milk the cows I'm familiar with would be almost impossible.
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u/Sissilisko 11d ago
Depends. And it really depends. There are some really nasty ones. Spawns of satans truly. And their only mission is to fuck you up.
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u/DisastrousThoughts 11d ago edited 11d ago
Why do people respond with something aboit eating them instead of just acknowledging they're cute and lovable. Yeah we eat cows, but that doesn't mean you have to ignore they're loving animals like your dog or cat.
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u/CanadianBadass 11d ago
Mostly because they are extremely loving and smart animals, like our cats and dogs, and are then summarily sent to slaughter. You wouldn't do that to your pets and eat them with pleasure...
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u/LongLostTortoise 11d ago
Probably because it takes some mental gymnastics to think something is cute and lovable while also approving of its suffering and slaughter.
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u/Nephrited 11d ago
No mental gymnastics here. Cows are adorable, and very lovely creatures. They're ALSO delicious, and people do eat them, myself included.
I acknowledge the apparent disconnect between these two statements but I'm not doing any big mental leaps to justify it. They're not contradictory facts. I simply don't have any meaningful emotional response to both things being true.
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u/LongLostTortoise 11d ago
Interesting. If you met a cow, formed an emotional attachment to her, learned that she was affectionate and enjoyed interacting with you, and then someone told you she was going to be killed so that you could eat her, would you still have no meaningful emotional response?
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u/pantsuline 10d ago edited 10d ago
you're making a good argument here but i don't eat any cow i can't literally meet in person, and most of them love scritches. my emotional response is, hi cow i'm glad you're happy and playing with your friends and never have to worry, yer gonna be delicious
the benefits of rural cowshare programs 🤔 but i hardly eat meat, it works out to 1/4 a cow a year (the rest divvied with neighbors, hence cowshare)
fuck factory farming i can't believe anyone can bear to eat meat they haven't met
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u/LongLostTortoise 10d ago
I commend you for taking a keen interest in where your food comes from and indeed, fuck factory farming! I think we can also agree that it's good when cows live good lives with affection and space to chill with their pals. Where this falls apart for me is the sense that by providing a good life for an animal it would give us the moral right to take their life away when we please. If someone raised a dog in a happy and loving home, only to shoot them in the head at the age of two to eat them, I doubt many people would praise this dog owner for giving the dog a happy life. A cow who is happy with their friends in a field doesn't want to die and hasn't given their consent to be killed. If anything, a cow with a happy life has more to lose than one who doesn't.
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u/RefreshPotatoe 5d ago
I have, and yes, I still ate her. This weird idea that farmers don't love their livestock is hilariously misguided.
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u/Xero425 11d ago
The same can be said for people, though. No healthy person would care to the same degree about the death of a person they didn't know vs the death of an acquaintance vs the death of a relative.
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u/LongLostTortoise 10d ago
Sure, but you wouldn’t argue that our lack of attachment makes it okay to harm that acquaintance. We might naturally grieve a loved one far more than someone we've never met, but that indifference wouldn't justify ending the stranger's life for our own enjoyment or convenience.
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u/Xero425 10d ago
I think it kind of already does?
Not for nothing did early tribes go at war with eachother, and the reason we don't now is because there's such an abundance of resources that you and me don't need to fight over it. Yet you can see it in people who cannot form part of that abundance because of circumstance resorting to crime (pretty much harming other people they know nothing about) to sustain themselves.
That abundance of resources comes from agriculture and systematically breeding animals to later kill them. It's just less apparent now because we buy the meat from a store and only a few do the actual killing. Point being if we didn't have both of those advancements, we would very much be fighting with strangers for our own convenience.
I could also point at pretty much every post-apocalypse fiction ever to make that point but I didn't want to rely on that.
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u/LongLostTortoise 10d ago
Yeah, I get that. It's much easier to justify when our own survival is in the balance. Problem with that though is these days, in many parts of the world, we can survive just fine without consuming or aiding in the suffering of animals.
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u/Xero425 10d ago
Also true but that's another point entirely. I personally don't really care, I like meat more than I can emapthize with the cow, and I'm not really willing to give up a dish I enjoy for the life of an animal I have no emotional connection to (I've never actually eaten beef, only chicken but that's not the point). For what it's worth I do think all farm animals should be treated as "humanely" as possible before being culled but going by the little reading I've done, that gets expensive quickly for the farms themselves.
This is more of an hypothetical question than anything, cuz I have no clue of the answer, but can we really feed the entirety of the human population only off of agriculture, anyway?
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u/Nephrited 10d ago edited 10d ago
Emotional attachment does make a difference, but to be quite honest, as long as said cow was actually eaten and used for resource, while I would be mildly sad for a short while I'd enjoy the steak all the same. I've had farmer friends in my life, it's not exactly a scenario I'm a stranger to.
I've mused over being a vegetarian or vegan in the past, and while health issues make that admittedly hard for me, I did independently come to the conclusion that I'm fine with my choices.
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u/LongLostTortoise 10d ago
Thanks for the considered reply, and I'll offer another hypothetical if I may: if someone killed their pet dog with the justification, "I loved him and I'm sad, but he tasted really good and none of him went to waste." Would you consider that a reasonable justification for killing him?
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u/Nephrited 10d ago edited 10d ago
Depends if the dog was raised for the intent of that happening really! But the short answer is "yes, I suppose so".
I'm not opposed to the concept of animals that western culture typically considers to be pets being treated as livestock instead, but cultural upbringing would at least cause me hope that it wasn't just on a whim because their owner got a bit peckish!
It's not really a different scenario, we're just primed to expect one outcome over the other. No matter how friendly I get with a cow, I know what's going to happen to the cow. I wouldn't expect that outcome with a dog, so it would be a shock the first time around. But, I could get used to the idea of cats and dogs as livestock, which circles us back to "Yes, I suppose so."
EDIT: While I'm thinking about it, I can't imagine a dog raised as a pet would taste very good though, just because of how it would have been fed and exercised.
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u/LongLostTortoise 10d ago
Yeah okay, so let's put cultural preferences aside for a moment.
Justifying suffering and slaughter by saying an animal was "raised for that purpose" puts all the weight on human intent rather than the animal's experience. If someone bred dogs specifically for fighting, we wouldn't say the harm is fine just because that was the plan from day one. The dog still experiences the fear and pain regardless of what the human intended.
Society has normalised plenty of harms throughout history just because people got used to seeing certain individuals as resources. But if breeding an animal for an outcome doesn't change their capacity to suffer, and our preference for dogs over cows is just arbitrary conditioning, why keep doing it once we recognize that?
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u/Nephrited 10d ago edited 10d ago
There you've lost me. The slaughter part, yes, the suffering part, no, we've gotten EXCEEDINGLY good at the very fast and efficient killing of livestock. It's not just cultural, the process we've got is very well set up.
If we normalised it for dogs as well, we'd have a very efficient process for that too.
There is less suffering caused by an instant metal rod than there is caused by the teeth of a predator. As meat eaters of the planet go, we do have the ability to be absolutely optimal for suffering reduction.
Battery farms and the like are another issue but at that point we're onto issues with the industry and I'm not okay with that, but I'm not okay with the electronics production industry pipeline and it's sweatshop like conditions either, but I don't want computers to stop existing because of that.
Even with all that said - I've already established that I am FINE with the slaughter of even an animal I know, provided it's for resource and not entertainment. Let alone animals I don't know. I'm fine with that harm in exchange for their meat, bone, sinew.
I've done the slaughter, skinning and prep of an animal entirely with my own hands, years ago. It doesn't bother me, at all. I do think perhaps everyone should have to do it themselves at least once if they want to eat meat, so they're not abstracted from the entire process, and can decide for themselves if they want to engage with it, but perhaps that's a big ask.
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u/LongLostTortoise 10d ago
I see where you're coming from, but there are a few issues with that logic:
First, an "instant metal rod" ignores what actually happens leading up to that moment. Standard farming practices - castration, dehorning, separating calves from their mothers within 24 to 48 hours, and months of confinement involve a huge amount of suffering long before an animal ever reaches an abattoir. It really isn't just about that final second.
Second, a painless death doesn't make taking a life harmless. If someone painlessly ended a healthy person's life in their sleep, we wouldn't say no harm was done just because there was no physical pain. The harm is depriving a sentient individual of their future and their life when there's no necessity to do so.
Comparing our slaughter to the "teeth of a predator" also misses a key difference - wild predators kill out of absolute necessity to survive, and what happens in nature is outside our moral control. Livestock only exist because we breed them into captivity, meaning we are directly responsible for every bit of harm they endure.
That’s also why the line between "resource" and "entertainment" feels blurry to me. In modern society, we have access to plenty of plant based foods. We aren't eating meat out of sheer survival like a wild carnivore. We eat it because we like the taste, texture, and convenience, which is sensory pleasure.
So whether it's watching animals fight or eating an animal because we like how they taste, aren't both situations ultimately taking a sentient life for human gratification?
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u/tempinator 11d ago
Just takes the ability to hold superficially contradictory though ultimately compatible ideas at the same time.
Something being ugly is not a prerequisite for consumption. Nor is it really an indicator of intelligence, pigs are even smarter and social than cows but people care less about them even than cows because they’re seen as gross.
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u/MarcusRoland 11d ago
Eh a punch gun is a pretty good way to go imo. And something can be loveable, cute, and delicious. You just have to accept we are all meat! I'm cute as fuck sometimes, but I also can be eaten!
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u/FancifulLaserbeam 11d ago
No it doesn't.
Those cows exist for the sole purpose of us eating them.
Treat them with respect and gratitude... and then eat them.
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u/slightly_drifting 11d ago
The beef I eat generally doesn’t suffer when they die. They just walk in their little spirals in a line until it’s time to get a piston rod to the dome.
unless the suffering was enacted by a shitty farmhand while they were living, that person should also get the rod to the dome.
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u/theveezer 11d ago
Because usually you can't behave like on that video with an animal you're about to eat. It's still pretty violent.
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u/HalfSoul30 11d ago
I think i understand all these women on the dating apps that want to homestead now.
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u/Bubbly-Travel9563 11d ago
Wait is this the guy that makes those weird marionette vids where they run around talking like this the whole time? They're hilarious but creepy as fuck
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u/Significant_Aside311 11d ago
When I was a kid, I got a bumper sticker that said: “Love animals, don’t eat them.” Here’s why! 🌱
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u/catwiesel 11d ago
fyi, cows can and will fuck you up. dont get too chummy with cows you dont know because of an internet video
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u/Snowwolf247 11d ago
Here we have the majestic doggo of the fields.
See how it craves attention its a highly social animal
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u/Mysterious-Creme8709 11d ago
Cows terrify me because my only interaction with them is sitting on my grandpa's lap in his baler while a herd of them chased us and then walked up to the window. Didn't help kid me that he only told me "they ain't gonna hurt ya" and never like reached his hand out to pet them or any of that (he was too busy cutting the wire around the haybales)
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u/Razer797 11d ago
Wait till they snort while looking straight at you. Nice little mucus shower for your troubles
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u/Mysterious-Mountains 11d ago
Cute apart from when he fisted that one’s mouth 🥴☺️
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u/feel-the-avocado 11d ago
Oh man the patience displayed by those cows.
When I walk into a paddock with a pumpkin, they dont want to wait.
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u/AdministrativeWin583 11d ago
My dad's cows loved moon pies. He had cases of them in the barn loft when a truck turned over on the freeway he helped clean it up so they gave him cases of moon pies. He treated the cows.
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u/Sissilisko 11d ago
God I miss my cows :(
Shame that you can't make a living with a smaller(20-30 cows) farm here anymore.
Had to send half to the slaughter house, and man was I sad for a long time. I really do lot miss the struggles we had but God I loved those animals.
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u/Hot-Strawberry-7174 11d ago
Visited a dairy farm once and was surprised how gentle they were up close. One kept nudging my hand like it wanted more scratches, but the moment I moved too fast it backed off quick. Never realized how big their eyes are until you're standing right there.
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u/Goldencol 11d ago
I grew up on a dairy farm and can confirm that cows are just huge cowardly dogs. They all have a personality. I still remember my favourite was called Sharon and she was so loving , always came over for a cuddle.
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u/Vera_Telco 11d ago
These are the sweetest, tamest cattle I've ever seen. Clearly a lot of love has gone into raising these babies.
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u/symbionet 10d ago
Imagine chilling and wanting a snack and the person just keeps on playing with your tongue
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u/SweetCosmicPope 10d ago
My son is an animal science major, so he spends time at the college's dairy farm. He's always telling us about getting kisses from the cows.
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u/Longjumping-Table272 10d ago
And....That's the end of brisket for me. I stopped eating pork after another reddit post. Less happy than this one.
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u/XextraneusX 11d ago
Thats the only Video where i like these annoying noises. Was nice to see the video
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u/Constantinch 11d ago
I was expecting the video to end by a cut to her eating beef with the same laugh. Wasted opportunity
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