friendlymessage is arguing that if there’s no demand for milk (ie people stop drinking milk), then the production of milk will fall or cease.
I have no idea what commie is talking about
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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoCan you rephrase their argument? To me it’s nonsense
friendlymessage is arguing that if there’s no demand for milk (ie people stop drinking milk), then the production of milk will fall or cease.
I have no idea what commie is talking about
I think commie begins saying that milk is naturally produced during the normal birthing of young. Then gets side tracked by the commercial aspect of milk as a product. Namely, no demand, no product. I could be wrong…
this wasn’t the start of the conversation
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Commie thinks that milk is just a byproduct of cows existing. Friendlymessage correctly points out that you need to repeatedly get cows pregnant and feed them to produce milk and nobody would do it if there wasn’t a market demand.
Moc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Commie implied that milk was farmed before markets existed and I was honestly baffled
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I didn’t have a good grasp of history. apparently we mined before developing agriculture, which is wild to me.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What would mining have to do with agriculture and therefore milk?
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t need to keep getting them pregnant, you just need to consistently keep milking them. Milk production continues for as long as it is not left untaken. Definitely not vegan at all.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s absolutely incorrect. It’s a significant amount of time, around 10 months, but you have to repeatedly get a cow pregnant over their useful life in order to continue getting milk from them.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I stand corrected.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
risking incivility, duh.
it’s an animal product
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I never said that
spujb@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
no u
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Commie sounds like a baby leftist that hasn’t read Das Kapital yet. He wouldn’t be trying to make this argument if he actually read Marx.