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TranscriptA tumblr post by @scoutsmoocrew on June 5th. It has an image of a small, cute black and white calf with its head bowed down (not in a sad way). It is in a field with very green grass. There is a wire fence and two trees behind the calf. The picture has the caption "I was killed because someone, somewhere, couldn't live without cheese." The text is white, and in all caps. It is on a black tint to give contrast. The tumblr post says: "Every time you eat cheese we fire a calf into the sun." It has 1802 notes.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I clearly need to eat more cheese.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, fun fact, only the male calves are sold for veal to be slaughtered. Female calves may be kept to replace or make more dairy cows. As far as I’m aware, they don’t use the sun to kill any of them. Unless those bolt guns are solar powered.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, male animals are very unlucky (chick culling is fucked up).
But, cheese isn't the reason the calf is dying.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

In order to get a cow to produce milk she must be regularly impregnated, the calves are a byproduct of this process. Calves with no other 'value' are then chained to a small enclosure so they are as sedentary as possible and then slaughtered young for veal.

Dairy is the root cause of these calves' deaths, veal is just an efficiency measure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ever seen what happens when you don't cull male chicks?

Yeah. It's pretty brutal. They don't just kill each other, they also tear the females to shreds.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, doesn't change the fact its fucked up.

Stuff like detecting a chicks sex before they hatch looks hopeful though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

thats like so fucking depressing

instead of humans getting their shit together and stopping the industrial enslavement, torture and slaughter of animals, the hope is that with new tech they will reduce the cruelty

its hard to not get misantropic sometimes... sysyems, not people. systems, not people...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Curious what you think the reason is?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You said it yourself: being killed for veal.
They are not dying because a different cow was milked for cheese.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They’re not dying as a direct result of milk being needed to create cheese, obviously not, but they are killed nonchalantly as a part of the utterly profit-optimized dairy industry.

There isn’t an option in the 21st century to have industry-made cheese -or in general dairy products- without blood

(also yes, I barely resisted the urge to write udderly)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Energy to send one kilogram into the sun: 450000000 J/kg
Typical calf weight: 37kg
energy cost of sending one calf into the sun: 16.6GJ

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I question the math, or maybe the physics. If it only took that much gas to get a calf to the Sun (the most difficult target) then why the hell aren't we a spacefaring civilization yet?

Yes, in looking at the link that's a simple change in velocity of something already in space, not getting it INTO space.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the math there is ignoring the entire process of actually getting off Earth