Slaughter-Free Milk Is Great for Cows, But Not the Environment | Mother Jones
Should we be promoting this?
Should we be promoting this?
Slaughter-free milk
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No. We should be promoting plant milks.
One problem with slaughter-free cow milk is that it doesn't "scale" - it takes up too many resources for it to be the solution for the vast majority of people.
It would be good if conventional dairy farms were forced by legislation to treat their cows as well as the Ahimsa-type dairies though. That would soon put them out of business.
One problem with slaughter-free cow milk is that it doesn't "scale" - it takes up too many resources for it to be the solution for the vast majority of people.
It would be good if conventional dairy farms were forced by legislation to treat their cows as well as the Ahimsa-type dairies though. That would soon put them out of business.
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Exactly. Plus, slaughter free doesn't equal cruelty free. Forced to be continuously pregnant is not a pleasant life, it's a miserable one.
Clueless Git
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Right, I'm off to the Dragons Den with this gem of an idea ...
Me: I want a £5.00 investment for a 99% stake in my new business.
Dragons: What's the plan Clueless?
Me: I plan to produce about one millionth of the market demand for cows milk at around ten times the costs that any sane person would pay.
Dragons: If we give you £1.00 each will you just get the **** out?
Me: I want a £5.00 investment for a 99% stake in my new business.
Dragons: What's the plan Clueless?
Me: I plan to produce about one millionth of the market demand for cows milk at around ten times the costs that any sane person would pay.
Dragons: If we give you £1.00 each will you just get the **** out?
Clueless Git
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Article quotes the current supplier of no-kill (lol?) milk at $10.00 per gallon.
That is 4 times the going rate for cow milk in the USA?
I did, for attempted comic effect, make up both the ten fold and one millionth factors.
I have a suspicion that truly no kill milk would be about ten times the cost of 'milk the ***** to death in one quarter of it's natural lifetime' milk though.
In agreement. Even if there's no slaughter, it wouldn't be cruelty-free. And even if you found a cow who didn't mind being impregnated non-stop and such, I still see it as exploitation/stealing. It's not meant for us. If someone packed up a lunch for their child, and you found it, you'd have to be seriously warped to just start eating it.
