I know I know… “obligate carnivore”

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 months ago

    You pay the store for the milk, the store pays the wholesaler and the wholesaler pays the farmer who is committing “animal abuse/ rape”.

    but I’m not paying the store to pay the farmer. I’m paying for a product.

    further, artificial insemination is a veterinary procedure. it is not rape.

    • Dashi@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      Buying the product increases the demand for the product making the store want to provide the product so they purchase it from the farmer. If nobody bought cow milk from the store then the store wouldn’t buy from the farmer and then the cows wouldn’t be milked.

      And I believe the “rape of animals” vegans refer to is taking their milk without consent. I’m not an expert on either side of the argument so I may be wrong.

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        2 months ago

        And I believe the “rape of animals” vegans refer to is taking their milk without consent.

        milking isn’t rape, either.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Nah they’re referring to the insemination of the cows. Gotta keep getting the cow pregnant and take away it’s babies to get milk. Gotta inseminate the cows as soon as you can so you’re not feeding them with no return. That’s a basic factor of dairy farming you can’t get away from no matter how you try. If you believe in animal personhood you should find it abhorrent. I don’t.

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        Buying the product increases the demand for the product making the store want to provide the product so they purchase it from the farmer.

        the. store makes their own decisions. I don’t decide for them