• XM34@feddit.org
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    4 hours ago

    Oh, by “blending some oats” you mean: We sow out unnatural cloned mutant seed, then we spray it with literal poison over and over again to kill every plant and animal that isn’t cloned mutant seed, we add growing agent that kills most nearby water organisms, then we harvest it, remove all of the healthy parts and grind down only the unhealthy fatty part. Next, we add tons of god knows what chemicals to achieve a consistency oats were never meant to have. Lastly, we add tons of highly industrialized suggar and lab grown taste chemicals so that our chemical cocktail doesn’t taste like complete garbage.

    See, two can play that game…

    We artificially inseminate because it’s healthier for the cows and more convenient. They would be pregnant just as often or even more in a natural herd. There is (almost) no baby killing going on. I don’t know who told you that garbage. There’s also no milk “stealing”. Modern cow breeds give way more milk than is required to feed the calf. In fact, most cows would get an udder infection if not molken regularly (and no, this isn’t just a problem for high performance cows).

    You’ve never been even close to a real dairy farm and it shows!

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      You are right, I buy organic as often as I can to not support the spraying of poison. And I usually eat whole grains, as you suggested, as it is much healthier.

      we add tons of god knows what chemicals

      This ticks #9 of the Vegan Bullshit Bingo. I’m from Europe and our basic organic oatmilk comes with stuff made from algue, seeds and plant oils. This is used everywhere in foodprocessing. Look it up, no dangerous “chemicals” to be found. There are brands that add sugar and artificial flavor, sure. Udders milk has about 5% sugar (lactose) and oat milk usually doesn’t transcends this.

      There is (almost) no baby killing going on

      Half of the newborns are male and killed for veal, no? And the females get to be raised, milked and killed after a couple of years, so McDonald’s can sell you cheap beef burgers.

      most cows would get an udder infection if not molken regularly

      Vegan Bullshit Bingo #17: Cows need to be milked
      We did that to them by breeding them like that. That’s Bullshit Bingo #32.

      Also, if you don’t want to grow so much oat and soy because it destroys ecosystems and rainforests (#2), don’t feed animals, feed people! We’re losing like 80% of the calories by giving it to cows. Here is a graph from the BBC

      I live like 200 meters away from a dairy farm, no shit. :)

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        soy … destroys ecosystems and rainforests (#2), don’t feed animals, feed people!

        the vast majority ( over 80% ) of soy is pressed for oil. the byproduct of that process is called soycake or soy meal, and it would be industrial waste if we didn’t feed it to livestock. that’s a conservation of resources.

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      I’ve looked at the USDA data about veal, and to my recollection it was less than 3% of calves that became veal