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clevervonskelli:vinato71:dustypumpkin:rossmallo:thehornedwitch:thesocialjusticecourier:thehornedwitch:somejane:namesnotfred:gimmeacoldbeer:kijikun:striderwolf:crazyqueerclassicist:north-american-weesnaw:friso1990:catsteaks:gorreality:“I can’t be vegan, I love cheese”Dairy industry is as evil as meat. No less harm for animals. Does it look natural that calf can’t drink milk so you can taste your piece of cheese? GO VEGAN. WRONGThat calf is wearing a nose tag. Nose tags are put on calves so that they are able to stay with their mothers longer, but are unable to nurse. They don’t NEED to nurse as they get older, they just get greedier and pushier and will bash up the cow’s udder and bruise it with their noses.This nose-tag is so that calves can stay with their mothers, their mothers can remain pain-free and healthy, and nobody is stressed.Educate yourselves you ignorant fucking tarts.…really? You don’t think it might have anything to do with the milk being stolen for human consumption? At all? Not even a tiny bit?Militant vegans can fuck right offBased on fur texture and face shape, that calf is at least six months old, probably older. Calves can survive without actual cow milk even at three months, though older is better (calves weaned that early are usually fed a sort of formula for another couple months).Also, nose tags like that one don’t go through the cow’s septum. They basically work like those fake septum rings for humans.In addition to weaning the calves, another use for nose tags is protecting non-lactating cows. Sometimes weanlings or even adult cows will suck on themselves or other non-lactating cows; this can cause internal teat scarring bad enough to prevent that teat or teats from ever working. I’ve seen this happen, and it’s ugly, probably at least somewhat painful, and, if bad enough, would lead to the cow being slaughtered at a very young age because she can’t produce milk, has chronic mastitis, and/or can’t be milked with automatic milking equipment. So, nose tags actually prevent animal cruelty.Also, calves will suck on anything remotely oblong (and attempt to eat literally anything), even if they are being adequately fed or overfed. Often they will suck on other calves’ ears, and, since ears are longer than teats and cows have upper as well as lower teeth in the back of their mouths, many calves get bites on their ears, which often become severely infected. I’m not sure if nose tags would work there, because physics—a non-toxic but bad-tasting ear paint would be better—but yeah, letting a calf put anything it wants in its mouth is not always a good idea.reblogging for educational purposes.reblogging for people being schooledThis was the funniest argument about false cruelty I have read.. Thank you. I love this for 2 reasons: Most people don’t realize that in farming areas agriculture/horticulture/animal husbandry is part of public school education from as early on as 7th grade. (Though I remember dissecting cow eyes in 4th grade science sooo) I assure you fifteen year old farm kids know more about what constitutes animal cruelty in farms than thirty year old vegans with, or without an agenda. Also that if you really want good quality beef/pork/eggs/milk/etc you don’t abuse your animals. Ever. That’s not the point and if you want to make any kind of money off your career choice, you are going to treat those creatures better than you treat yourself. You’ll call a vet five times for an infection in your herd before you visit the hospital for a missing foot on your own leg. So. Yeah. Watch out, because we’re getting internet access these days. We’re on tumblr too. P.S. The immigrant workers farming your supermarket produce have no health care or legal protection, and the Bolivians farming your 365 Organic Quinoa can’t afford to eat it. But PLEASE won’t someone think of the poor baby cows who won’t get off the tit?!Also this is a LOT nicer than what mother cows do to calves that won’t be weaned. You know what mother cows do to calves that won’t wean? kick them in the head. Now I don’t know about vegans, but I’d rather have a nose tag that discouraged me from injuring my mother (because calves that don’t wean tend to chew on udders and make mother cows bleed) rather than being kicked in the head.Source: I grew up on a fucking cattle ranch. I have seen chickens skeletonize a mouse I KNOW SHIT.“I have seen chickens skeletonize a mouse I KNOW SHIT.”I’m sorry, what? What??? WHAT??? you can’t just leave it there please explain @thehornedwitchHappy to explain!See, chickens are omnivorous. They eat bugs, plants, and meatstuffs. Y'know how crows and ravens and things eat meat? Well, chickens too. Ours had a particular fondness for ham when someone accidentally put it into the bucket of good scraps we set aside for the chickens. A bucket we tried to keep as meat-free as possible, because few things are more terrifying than a chicken looking you in the eyes as it scarfs down ham.Anyway, back to the mouse.One day i was doing Chicken Chores, like gathering eggs, putting out grain, emptying the bucket of greens, etc, when a mouse runs across the pen.All at once, eight or so chickens stop dead, look at it, and SWARM.Now I’m six at this point in time and developing a healthy fear of chickens, and so do nothing.By the time the chickens are done, all that is left of the mouse is its bones. I left the chicken pen very, very quickly.Chickens crave meat. They were dinosaurs. They did not forget that they were dinosaurs.They will also cannibalize each other with reckless abandon. Sometimes we just had to remove one chicken to its own private pen away from the others because no matter what we did, that specific one always tried to eat the other chickens. We had one that really liked other chicken’s eyes. Bear in mind, our pens ensured each chicken had about five to six square feet all its own if you managed to space every chicken out evenly, we never locked them in teensy pen things, and fed them LOTS. These chickens just really, really wanted to maim.Chickens that are not Buff Orpingtons are the devil. Buff Orpingtons are sweethearts. If you must have chickens, have that kind. And never get Guineas. Guineas are SATAN INCARNATE. THEY SMELL FEAR.Holy shit, I dont think I’ll ever use chicken as an insult again. Holy Shit, same here that is terrifyingWill I’m using it as a complimentThere are just so many things I love about this post. The fact that #ag-awarness is slowly spreading across all platforms on the Internet is wonderful. Both to discourage false and malignant claims by individuals in typically anti-farm communities, as well as just to better inform the general public. Who doesn’t want to know more about what they are consuming? Especially since we producers LOVE to talk about our animals and livelihoods. Knowledge is meant to be shared, and any opportunity to do so is great. On a less serious note, I really appreciate the chicken commentary that can be found here, because holy hell are those little buggers scary. And yes, Guineas are quite possibly the most disturbingly vicious and indestructible creatures that walk this earth. I have seen them attack a moving vehicle in formation, be accidentally run over by said vehicle, and come out the other side with their wings flapping and their spurs up to go at it again. Fowl hell beasts is what they are. -- source link