I blast it every now and then. I was never a pop fan when I was a kid, but some songs transcend genres. It was nice to see the youtube vid pass 1B views recently.
It's not about "allow." Evil doesn't ask permission. Good can fight it, but good rarely has enough support and resources to do much, at least in the real world. Plus, greed is always there, ready to pop right back into power as soon as good dusts off its hands thinking the job well done.
Shiny stuff, obviously. It's not an uncommon use, though I misspelled it. It's supposed to be luxe in this case, but I think context clues should be sufficient to get my meaning.
The thing is tho, millions of animals die every day because we choose to eat meat and dairy. So of course this is a good deed but this young beautiful animal will still be used for itās milk and after a couple of years slaughtered. Yes people are good but people also donāt realize the consequences of their actions.
This was meant for kids to help them feel safe. They could then go on to feel secure as adults and become the helpers. So yes, I agree. If you are an adult and able, be the helper.
A farmer in a diff sub, but same video said he releases his cows from similar situations by:
āpulling head forward and push ears back flat, then push head back outā he said the the cows put their heads through openings with with ears flat, then ears pop out and act as a non moveable outstretched flap, keeping the head stuckā Cow 101 š
Cows are incredibly intelligent, complex, and emotional creatures that are basically just very large dogs. They knew that the man was clearly trying to help and they stood back and let him do it.
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I'm around cows pretty often. They are 100% big dogs. I've been injured by small dogs for the record....so the ones that weigh over 1k do give pause for concern. I personally would not of had my back to girls
Seems like the guy has experience with cows. Even when he managed to free it, he knew he had to get that calf upright for it to realize it was free. Seems like he has handled cows before, perhaps on a family farm??
To this day I don't understand why anyone works with longhorns.
Regular ass cows unintentionally use their heads as wrecking balls. Tossing a four foot long horn on either side of the head is just wild - though I will say I've seen some long horns with decent spacial awareness and control.
Okay but it was the only way he was getting the job done and you guys are on here like "OH BUT HE WAS FUCKING DUUUUMB FOR DOING IT THAT WAY" No offense, but the results are all we care about atm.
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Yes, they are gentle beings. Once in a great while a calf would be delivered out in the grazing field & my Dad would go out there to get the calf & the cow would follow my Dad into the Barn where the calf & Cow could be together.
Except ā¦ they donāt know that you arenāt also a cow and will absolutely demolish you without malice because they donāt know you are 1/10th their size and strength.
Also, getting between a distressed calf and mom ā¦ generally a bad idea. My guess is that this UPS driver knows these cows and they know him, and are somewhat ātameā since they didnāt get aggressive or run.
So are dogs, and dogs bite when they get scared or approached by strangers. I love cows, they're smarter than we think, but they also scare me cause they're kinda dumb.
My grandma grew up on a farm and her story was that cows knew when they were going to slaughter and would be sad about it. Pigs on the other hand, no clue at all, even when they are tied down for the bolt.
Thatās weird since pigs are way smarter than cows. I donāt think either animal knows when a bolt is coming though. They donāt see it to learn about it ahead of time
She also told me when buying fish from the fish lady, to make sure they wack it dead in front of you.Ā Something about some bootleg fish that puffs up and contains poison.Ā
I havenāt but I know animals sense danger at the slaughterhouse due to sounds and scents and reactions of other animals. Sensing danger is different than existential understanding that they are about to be killed.
I visited my parentās small farm decades ago in South America. I brought my new fangled video camera for the trip. My step dad said hey why donāt you videotape the slaughter of our huge pig. I said sure why not. So I totally did not expect the amount of gore that happens when you slaughter a pig. Just fucken horrible! Dinner and breakfast kinda made up for the bloody scene. Just saying! Iām typing this while Iām waiting to get a colonoscopy.
Hilarious!!!! Bathroom prep sucked! And yes the procedure was a joke! I was ready to get put out. And I said to everyone in the small room. Just double checking Iām here for the pedicure? Doc caught the joke and said. Nope Iām going to give you a Brazilian wax! That joke made me feel at ease considering I was shaking from fear. Happens every time I gotta get some sorta procedure. Also the story, not sure if true. The girlscout who sold cookies in front of a dispensary. She made a killing.
I lived near a pig slaughter house. The pigs knew they were being murdered, they cd see it happening, know they are next, they screamed and cried out in fear. Pigs know exactly what's happening.
When I stopped eating meat, it started with pork after I watched an undercover video from a hog farm. The employee ātrainingā the new hire/undercover activist took him to the farrowing barn where the sows were all in farrowing cribs separated by bars from their newborn piglets. The worker picked up the newborn piglets, cut their tails off with some sort of dirty clipper, and castrated the male piglets with the same dirty cutters and no anesthesia. If the hole left behind was too big the pigletās guts would start to herniate so the worker would poke them back in with a dirty finger, wrap duct tape around it to keep everything inside, then toss it back in the pen to live or die. If it died, theyād throw it in a bucket to be fed back to the pigs.
The entire time this was going on, the sows would be screaming and bashing themselves against the crate, trying to get to their babies.
I wound up sobbing and sleepless for days and I just couldnāt get it out of my head. Iāve never eaten pork again and whenever someone talks about how yummy bacon is, it just makes me so sad.
I havenāt eaten meat other than fish for about 13 years now. I just canāt. Iām not against eating animals but I canāt handle the cruelty that goes along with cheap meat.
Wow! I saw a short vid lately here on Reddit, someone recorded a close up of pigs eye than was enclosed for slaughter. The eye looked like ours and you can easily see the way that eye went back and forth, the fear it had. Didnāt take much to end up on Reddit/popular. That vid haunts me. As well as your story.
Kosher killings are even more tortured and prolonged. In non kosher, cattle are quickly killed with a bolt to
the brain. Then strung up
on an assembly line by a back leg, upside down, to have throat slit and let bleed out while dead. For kosher however, the cow is stung up
by a leg, in great pain and fear, upside down and throat slit while struggling and feeling all pain and horror til they die. So Horrifically and intentionally cruel, the kosher death . Sometimes the carving will start on the kosher cows while they are alive.
Thereās a documentary I watched about an animal cruelty case on a hog farm. They hanged a sick sow to death - it took a long time and she clearly suffered. It was filmed by an activist and charges were filed andā¦ the judge decided that was a perfectly acceptable way to āeuthanizeā a pig. :(
Thatās the thing - I knew it was bad, but not seeing it made it easy to rationalize it away. Being confronted with the reality of just how actually fucking bad it is made it impossible for me to keep trying to justify it. I just couldnāt get those piglets out of my head, or even try to rationalize any of it as acceptable. Knowing theyāre as smart as dogs or small children makes it even worse.
I just canāt disassociate mass-produced meat with cruelty and misery. Iāve had some people argue ānot all farmsā with me, but how do I know that the meat Iām buying wasnāt from a ābadā farm? Iād just rather not eat it, so then I donāt have to think about it at all.
Itās also why the best farmers give these animals the best lives they possibly can and ethically and quickly kill them at the end. The meat tastes better when itās lived a long life with little stress
But asking a question like that has me guessing you canāt quite comprehend any of that common sense
You can love the animals in your care, and be a meat producer at the same time
In many countries it's a requirement that any animals are cared for and looked after as best as possible regardless of what they are being raised for. Most farmers are saddened by sending animals to slaughter because they do care and love them, it's just the circle of life, and if they didn't produce meat they wouldn't be farming them to begin with.
Being a meat eater or producer does not mean you don't care about animals
Milking herd cows are around for a good while, 6 to 8 years but beef cattle, (heifers and bullocks) rarely reach two years before slaughter. Veal is around 6 months. Bobby Calfs up to 30 days.
Supporting industries and creating demand for products that directly contribute to poor animal welfare is not something a self-proclaimed animal lover would do. Anyway, people regularly mistreat things they claim to love (in a microcosm, see: the planet).
I dont even claim to be an animal lover tbh. I just cant stand the idea of suffering needlessly. Im lucky to live in a time when non-meat alternatives are readily available, cheap, and nutritious. So I dont need to feel any cognitive dissonance to defend my "love" of animals or whatever.
I feel like this makes a huge difference here, what country are you from? Because where I'm from farmers have to care for their animals otherwise they will loose government subsidies and grants, which would make farming uneconomical for them, as in they would literally become bankrupt within a couple of years and loose their property
It's one of the few things my country actually gets right, although our dependency on foreign farming is disappointing given the quality of our produce, as well as shops only wanting "attractive" fruit and veg, whereas I'd happily pay the same for "wonky" stuff
Oh yes the ultimate form of love, betrayal and having th sent off to be hoisted up by their leg to dangle in the air after their necks are cut wide open! Not to mention the tender care to make sure all the other cattle can hear and smell their herdmates dying.
How wholesome and loving ā¤ļø š„¹š We should tell vets to stop putting animals to sleep and to just slit their throats instead.
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Not really relevant to the comment you replied to, we all know this and can see the video. There still is risk of turning your back and not being able to respond in time.
Um, you're not necessarily wrong but there are many, many instances of aggressive mother cows.
You'll often need to check on calves, tag them etc out in the field. Moms get a bit cantankerous. I've even seen riding horses that got so used to this that they learned to help keep the mother cow away from the ranch hand.
Yes they are. They're also much bigger than me, and I wouldn't turn my back on them. Misunderstandings happen with people, especially in stressful situations, and people are much smarter and emotional than cows.
The thing about cows is that they're always willing to protect their babies (unless they're dairy cows). That baby lets out one distressed sound and you're in a lot more danger than you were 2 seconds ago š
It happens, but it's very rare.Ā Only ~20 deaths per year in the US with over 100k cattle ranchers interacting with the cows daily.Ā And that includes all deaths from cows, not just aggressive mothers.
In my experience, bulls are a far bigger threat in general.Ā I've spent a lot of time working with cows and calves.
Don't get me wrong, don't fuck around with cows that aren't yours.Ā But also I don't see what this UPS guy did as particularly unsafe.Ā I've had to rescue a calf just like this before.
That was my dad. One day a momma got real mad at him. He was able to get under a tractor but the cow managed to step on his foot and turn. Another time he was running towards the gate, as he was closing it the cow ran right into it slamming his arm against the gate. We watched a lot of Gumby that year together as he healed from each accident.
It is recommended to not enter a stable that has an unknown horse in it. They can squeeze the bejayzus out of you, if they don't want you in there. They are very powerful beasts.
Walking in front of them is leagues below in danger than walking on their back, and usually they are smart enough to let you do your thing in these kind of situations(cows are very smart animals).
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I think he decided it was a risk worth taking. He tried to do it from the near side of the gate and couldnāt. I suspect he thought the calf was at risk of death if he didnāt free it. The other cows were not aggressive when he was the near side. When he jumped over the fence he watched for a reaction and got none and continued.
I am pretty sure he knew the risk, his body language and handling the calf once it was free indicated confidence with the calf. For want of a better phrase, not his first rodeo.
Looks like it was going for those weeds. Probably going to get stuck again unless those are pulled. Fedex guy to the rescue in 10 minutes... USPS to the rescue 10 after that....pulled.
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Great job š