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Calves are almost always separated from their mothers rule (i.imgflip.com)

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[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 months ago

What a braindead argument. Sometimes bad things happen to human children so we can excuse animal cruelty on an industrial scale.

And it's not just the separation, 99% of male calves are killed immediately after being born, while females are either filled with hormones so they can be grown for meat, or they are raped year after year so they keep producing milk.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

For some sources to back that up

Some of their claims are beyond dispute: Dairy cows are repeatedly impregnated by artificial insemination and have their newborns taken away at birth. Female calves are confined to individual pens and have their horn buds destroyed when they are about eight weeks old. The males are not so lucky. Soon after birth, they are trucked off to veal farms or cattle ranches where they end up as hamburger meat.

The typical dairy cow in the United States will spend its entire life inside a concrete-floored enclosure, and although they can live 20 years, most are sent to slaughter after four or five years when their milk production wanes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/science/dairy-farming-cows-milk.html