Non-human animals are more important than humans exactly in the same way your sibling is more important than a rando in another country.

The fact you’d pick your sibling before a stranger in a trolley problem doesn’t mean you get to exploit, abuse, mistreat them or shoot them for a burger. Same goes for non-human animals.

Thanks!

ELI5?

If it’s only for you, have you considered Holos Social? Self hosted in your smartphone

They enshittified the search so now using the chatbot is more useful. The search just returns slop and even fake slop forums.

It’s relevant since the US is an actual, current threat. Arguements don’t happen in a void, what about the fucking thing happening right now is a valid argument under a lazy irrelevant post like this one

No, it’s not all paid by our taxes, we literally have to pay insurance which is co-paid by our employer. The healthcare is universal because it’s mandatory to have insurance. If you’re unemployed you have to pay the full insurance yourself which is mind-boggling to me. The system is more similar to the US than true universal healthcare, because healthcare actors are private companies, doctors, and clinics getting reimbursed by insurances and the government.

Because they are manufacturing consent for closing the platform, calling installing apps from other stores “sideloading” and hiding the options behind “SUPERDUPERDANGEROUS” warnings, making you wait 24h for literally just installing software on your own phone. They know 99% of people won’t even bother. It’s obvious what they want to do, this is a step back because of the outrage, have no doubts that they’re gonna keep pushing it

Cringe

When I was 10 I wished I was 7 again, so idk about that

Based

These practices are not particular to factory farms. Some farms do keep bulls but this is costly and impractical on the long run for genetic diversity reasons, so most non-factory farms also buy sperm and do the artificial insemination.

Also “local” as an adjective doesn’t mean much in terms of practices. All farms are local to somewhere. In a 50km radius of where I live there have been investigations in at least 10 farms that found severe animal abuse and neglect in the last 5 years. Those were all local farms that got to put a nice local stamp in their products.

Yes the dairy cycle is more complex I simplified it because I wanted to focus the impregnation part.

Milk production decreases greatly after the first 9-12 months. To make it profitable they do get impregnated repeatedly. The life of a dairy cow typically goes like this:

• 15 months old: First pregnancy
• 24 months old: First calf is born
• For around 12 months: milking
• 60 days “dry off”

The cycle is then repeated. Since pregnancy and milk production is taxing on the body and milk production declines, most cows get slaughtered at 5 years old with an average of 2.5 pregancies (average lifespan is 20 years). This also makes sense because to maintain the herd you need to keep the number of females stable, which have a 50% chance of being born (male claves get slaughtered ofc).

Maybe some homesteads or subsistence farms keep milking them for years after one pregnancy, but otherwise even for free range grass fed whatever, if they sell milk to make a profit this is how it goes.

You can get all this info from industry sources.

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The original claim was “there is an amount of pus and blood allowed in milk and it’s not zero”. To which you said it wasn’t true (“factoid”). So it was necessary to say that pus is made of somatic cells to explain that the claim is in fact true.

I’m not fear mongering, on the contrary my point is that people should look stuff up before dismissing something as PETA bullshit or whatever.

I’m not saying the somatic cells in commercial milk are harmful, that’s precisely why somatic cell counts need to exist.

Your response comment seemed to suggest that the claim that the FDA has a somatic and blood cell count is “PETA propaganda”, which it is not. I didn’t post “PETA ignorance”, just facts you can look up from objective sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count

Also milk = rape is totally factual (though a terrible way to try to reach the public)

• Bulls are immobilized and forcibly masturbated in order to get sperm.
• Cows are then forcibly inseminated to be pregnant back to back during their lives so they produce milk. This also typically involves restraining the cow in some chute and shoving an arm up the her ass to hold the cervix in place during the process.

So if you believe that non-human animals can be SA’d the dairy industry most likely covers that definition.

You can look this stuff up yourself in industry sources, it’s just industry practice including free-range cows.

This is not a “factoid” but a fact you can look up yourself from many non-animal rights sources (even if there are many reliable ones).

Look up “somatic cell count” on Wikipedia. Food safety regulations around the world define a number of somatic cells (which is what pus is made of). Same for blood cells.

Depends on the definition. In Lenin’s Imperialism, the highest form of capitalism, he defines five criteria:

And so, without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its complete development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

1. the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;

2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy;

3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;

4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist combines which share the world among themselves, and

5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

1 and 2 apply with some caveats, 3 and 4 are a yes (WTO, UN, BRICS, etc), and 5 should be seen through a soft-power neo colonialist lens with China’s influence in Africa for example.

This is not meant to be anti-China or whatever, anything China has done pales in comparison with US imperialism, just that I don’t think it’s a completely baseless accusation.

Who is this guy?