Or we should stop force-breeding cows
By artificial insemination, let their numbers decline to a level they can sustain by their own mating surges.
Some of these breeds wouldn't exist if we didn't intervene.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 6:47,
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well, technically cows wouldn't exist, they're a domesticated animal that has been substantially altered from its auroch progenitor
Not sure what you mean by 'sustain', we're quite capable of increasing herd numbers to any level with traditional bull fucking, limited only by space and economics. just takes a bit longer and involves more cracked pelvises for the heifers. Besides, I don't see artificial insemination as the worst indignity inflicted up cows by a long shot. I remember driving past these fucking enormous feedlots in southern california. there must have been near 100,000 cows stretching off into a cowey distance, just dust and manure and not a tree or blade of grass in sight. still, yours is a pragmatic response to a question that often stumps the more glassy-eyed animal welfare advocates
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 8:04,
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Free roaming herds would be better for everyone
And the feedstock thing is fucking horrifying to see. I drove through Kansas some years back, and we soon learned to recycle the aircon to avoid the rank stench whenever we saw the silos on the horizon.
Miles and miles of natural prairie all turned into wheat fields, and a million natural grazers all penned up in their own shit and piss.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 8:56,
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when you've got manifest destiny they let you do what you like
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 11:03,
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Free roaming herds would be excellent for the soil, excellent for biodiversity,
and excellent for controlling vehicle traffic, and keeping the number of cars and drivers down to something more sustainable. This is assuming by free roaming you mean free to leave their prison fields.
Also we should reintroduce wild boars, lynxes, wolves and brown bears for similar reasons.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 14:52,
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Can't tell if you're joking
But rewilding is one of the most carbon capturey things we could do.
And fighting off predators makes you look cool.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 18:00,
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I'm only half joking, really.
Reducing all roads to single lanes (or 1 lane going one way and 1 going the other) is something I strongly believe in too. We need to cull drivers.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 20:02,
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I've always felt this way.
But fuck me, the 1st couple of weeks of the first lockdown really drove home (spang) just how much more peaceful the world feels when there aren't cunts needlessly driving everywhere.
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It was nice for a while yeah.
I noticed a number of pretty bad effects to the local wildlife though. I think the disruption to the feeding habits of our scavengers caused a bit of a domino effect... I think foxes, rats and pigeons started to compete for food with surrounding forest, farm and scrubland critters.
I noticed a dramatic drop in the numbers of hedgehogs, stag beetles, lesser stag beetles, and dragonfly. Also I've not seen a common cockchafer since then.
The hedgehogs are hanging on, but I see one or two per week, when before I'd see one or two groups of 3-5 per day. I saw one or two big dragonfly this year, but none of the smaller blue/azure damselfly for two years. There used to be thousands of them.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 23:16,
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