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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

If you've ever gone hiking through a farmer's field, you've likely noticed that your compass points directly to the nearest cow.

This is not an accident, and is part of a government conspiracy to replace all livestock with robots, in order to make them more accessible to aliens beaming them up from orbit[0].

This slow transition from biological to mechanical cows is known as hardware disease[1], and should be celebrated.

The more you know.

0: https://www.aemagnets.com/news/how-cow-magnets-save-animals.html
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease

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[-] Lioffproxy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

OK. just because i don't see any explanations. Cows in America can ingest metal things. staples and nails and debris on the farm. Not saying they can't be used elsewhere but here in America you feed the cow these magnets and it captures all the metal crap so the farmer can get the metal out easier. I think it passes through the digestive tract or is retrieved via mouth.!

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