Bae, considering you are the solid food, might want to ask fewer questions.
Time to grow up.
Submitted 1 year ago by QuaffPotions@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
neshura@bookwormstory.social 1 year ago
Yes but actually no.
Thanks to industrial grade food production meat cows and dairy cows are two entirely separate breeds by now. Old school cows you were able to butcher once they died of old age or whatever and get a decent cut of meta out of that. Modern cows are bred to either produce more milk or to produce more meat. Which on one end results in cows too thin to be butcherable and on the other end results in cows with too little nutrients in their body to produce any excess milk.
I say we go back to the old ways of mixed use cows and live with the reduced milk and meat output. What most people drink might as well be colored water given all the fat gets filtered out of the milk so switching to an alternative shouldn’t be a problem (aside from getting used to not drinking cow milk and instead whatever milk is to their liking)
Pipoca@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What do you imagine happens to old dairy cattle? We just compost them?
Dairy cattle absolutely get slaughtered for food. If you eat them, though, they were probably in your burger or hotdog.
That’s because older animals are less tender than young animals, and consumers prefer tender meat.
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The only issue you’re missing is this. If 5 dairy plus 5 meat cows yield 20% more total food now than 10 cows yielded then, focusing on the perceived waste of not eating a milk cow is fallacy. Is there a substantive argument that we are using cows less efficiently than we did a century ago?
What most people drink might as well be colored water given all the fat gets filtered out of the milk
Per the Mayo Clinic, it’s tough to beat dairy milk for balanced nutrition. That is even (or especially) with the excess fat removed and reserved for other products. Switching to an alternative is generally a nutrition problem. Only fortified and unsweetened soymilk comes close.
And one could argue it is the least palatable alternative. Calls to mind “instead of a doughnut, eat an apple”-style dietary replacement advice. Except in this case, there’s no huge nutritional gain like those stupid “instead ofs” have.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cheese is a solid food.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No. Mrs cow, *leans in and whispers sensually “I need your milk to make me feel good” as I make eye contact and continue milking.
___f____g___@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
*weaning
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Weening is the process by which one listens to the band Ween and grows to like even the weirdest albums.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thank you.
zouhair@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Two words: Butter and cheese.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m trying to find a way out of cheese. No luck yet, and I can’t really afford it either.
Gave up meat though, so I’m happy so far. Let’s see what clever scientists come up with for the rest 😎
dx1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gave up cheese/milk/eggs ages ago. There isn’t a one for one replacement, but pizza is junk food anyway, my diet shifted to replacements that were better for me in the end (and imho tastier).
rurutheguru@lemmings.world 1 year ago
This recipe is what made it possible for our family as a cheese substitute:
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
That’s the neat part, we don’t.
I know people who gave up veganism purely because of the cheese. It’s fucking delicious.
menemen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, no meat? Maybe. But no yoghurt? Just fucking kill me.
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That cow speaks the truth.
SrTobi@feddit.de 1 year ago
The reasoning falls for the “appeal to nature” fallacy. Only because in nature no other animal drinks the baby-food of another species, doesn’t follow we shouldn’t do it. Same would be: “no other animal pumps the dead bodies of other species from the earth to burn them in mini engines to avoid the inconvenience of walking a few miles” I mean there are other good reasons, but nature is not one of them.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
no other animal drinks the baby-food of another species,
that’s not even true
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
“For the last time, Bessie, I’m a god damn cheese maker! It will be solid food!”
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Its super nutritious. Dont let it go to waste
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good point, it is wasteful. Maybe instead of letting it rot in the food supply chain and on supermarket shelves we should let baby calves drink it, or stop forcefully impregnating dairy cows in the first place.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Wait what. We subsidize it to keep the price low and then dairy farmers pour it down the drain to keep the price from going too low.
alloloto@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Judging by the horns, this milk is going to taste a bit salty
oldGregg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s not how it works. Female cows can have horns.
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Those horns are pretty huge for a cow.
SickPanda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I ain’t gonna eat my cereals with water
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can eat them with oat milk, soy milk, flax milk, rice milk, almond milk, coconut milk, pea milk, and many more.
socksy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
My personal recommendation is only one at a time though
firala@feddit.de 1 year ago
Just use oat milk??
SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They said I ain’t gonna eat my cereals with water
Elocomanzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why?
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had a friend who had orange juice with cereal instead of milk. I figured that was super-weird, and so I never tried it. But… trying stuff and liking unusual things is fine.
CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Y’know, you’re right… Starts making cheese
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
frozen milk it is
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nope
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 year ago
That’s funny
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where’s my cattle prod god damnit
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
“Know what Bessie? You’re right.”
BLAM
“Honey fire up the grill! Steaks tonight!”
Teppichbrand@feddit.de 1 year ago
Lol, killing her after abusing her. So edgy and original! Never heard that joke before.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
milking cows isn’t abuse
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haha yes I love to kill and eat someone whose breast I’ve suckled at
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 year ago
Damn, I’m really sorry to hear about your mom.
hark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s weird, I get my milk from the grocery store. Do you recommend I drink directly from the source like you do?
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
She deserves nothing less for spelling it as “weening”.