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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well the reviews are from the Oculus marketing lead, a, Simian Field Reseacher (sic) and an independent shoe salesman. Two of them even have the same picture. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this isn't real.

Plus they're touting it as the new sustainable future of dairy. That alone is an insane thing to claim. There are fewer than thirty thousand gray whales in the world. They produce eighty gallons of milk a day. That's about twelve cows worth if you ignore that most of it is going to be drunk by the whale's calf.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Plus cow dairy requires constant breeding in order to keep the cows milk supply up. Just like humans, they only produce milk after giving birth and for a limited time.

Breeding cows in captivity is pretty standard fare these days.

I'm not sure whale breeding is an industry that currently exists. Nor is whale sperm harvester. As if milking a female whale is complicated enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Yup.

I’m thinking it either flopped or was never a thing.

I doubt it’s something that could be reliably commercialized.