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• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s sad. I’d like to stop learning now.

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sometimes they regrow and get burnt off multiple times.

    If they’d allow the horns to grow, it would be impossible to keep so many cows in the same area. The one with the biggest horns would bully all the others and a lot of cows will get hurt. If there are multiple with big horns, they fight for dominance. They keep getting into fights till one of them is killed.

    Sometimes the horns keep growing and the animal needs to go to the slaughter because of it. Each time the horns are burnt off it’s a chance to get infected, so you can’t keep doing it. If you let it grow in a case like this, the growth is uncontrolled and would most likely curl up and grow into the cows head, causing all sorts of problems. So a cow like that isn’t useful for growing more cows and producing milk, it’s only purpose would be to get slaughtered and provide meat.

    The more you learn about animal farming, the more you want to become a vegan.

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    • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the fuck is all this bullshit? do you even know what you’re talking about?

      Most breeds maintained in any number in the US these days, typically angus, herefords, and holsteins, have had any visible horns selectively bred out of them. They’re just too hard to keep otherwise. Yes, those with horns do get them docked if necessary- but those breeds are just not that common anymore.

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      • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Have you considered the world doesn’t end at the US border?

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    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The more you learn about animal farming, the more you want to become a vegan.

      That’s actually patently false. Farmers’ families are very unlikely to become vegan.

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    • TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      None of this bothers me.

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      • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s just because your soul is terrifying

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      • Smirk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not meant for you. I can assume it’s meant for people whom it does bother, and also don’t know.

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  • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cows only produce milk when they’ve recently had a baby, so farmers get their cows pregnant every year. The females become the new milking cows, and the males go into the grinder. The males aren’t used for meat because different breeds are used for milk than for meat.

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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a little better than that, males are kept pent in too small enclosures and fed only milk until they’re too fat to move, THEN they’re slaughtered, because veal is pretty fuckin tasty

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      • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        hardly an cattle become veal at all. like far less that 5%.

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      • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah, the wonders oft childhood obesity

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    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is not true. Dairy Bobby Calves can be used in veal.

      Squeamish people being unwilling to eat veal is the main reason that they are not all utilized for that purpose.

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      • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dairy Bobby Calves are used for veal.

        almost none of them do end up as veal though.

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    • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the vast majority of the males are brought to full weight before slaughter

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes farmers are definitely known for maximizing cruelty for giggles over efficiency and profit, and that’s why they murder bulls for fun.

      Perhaps have even one conversation with an actual dairy farmer in your life.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah. It’s to avoid accidents with holes in cows.

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    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And intentional attacks with horns. Cows have no problem killing each other, and it’s a baaad death.

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  • abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not as bad as that. Dehorning is one of the “worst” things in dairy farming, and it is done to ***save *** pain and lives.

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• A_Menace_To_Society@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dude, most vets I have seen just use a horn popper that shears the growth point off of the skull

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• abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cows are dehorned because they will literally murder each other.

  Most farms dehorn cows in ways and times to make the pain minimal.

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