Yeah, it is. Actual industry practice - impregnate cow mechanically without consent, bring baby cow to term, kill majority of baby cows for veal after separation after a few days from birth, repeat after cows stops producing milk, until cow is used up (around 10 years IIRC, a fraction of their normal lifespan) and also killed for meat.
Do you have qualifications that exceed (or equal) those of the individuals who wrote the article I linked, or do you some other documentation that can support your claims?
Is the life expectancy of—for example—dogs or cats invalid simply because of human intervention?
If a cow escapes the pasture, I wouldn’t be surprised to find it dead in 20 minutes. They require the aid of fences and the protection of farm dogs in the vast majority of environments they live in. Whoever is getting cattle to live 20 years is not doing so naturally, far from it
Yeah, it is. Actual industry practice - impregnate cow mechanically without consent, bring baby cow to term, kill majority of baby cows for veal after separation after a few days from birth, repeat after cows stops producing milk, until cow is used up (around 10 years IIRC, a fraction of their normal lifespan) and also killed for meat.
Talking about cows giving consent for sex is peak insanity. Do you think bulls take a cow out for a few dates beforehand?
No, I don’t. Do you think the behavior of animals justifies human behavior?
no one suggested that.
The normal lifespan of a dairy cow is 5 years. two and a half to 3 years for beef cattle.
The natural lifespan of a cow is ~25 years.
no it’s not.
That’s only because of farming. A dairy cow’s natural life expectancy is 20 years.
no, it’s not.
Do you have qualifications that exceed (or equal) those of the individuals who wrote the article I linked, or do you some other documentation that can support your claims?
Is the life expectancy of—for example—dogs or cats invalid simply because of human intervention?
this is an incredible ham-fisted appeal to authority. what i said is true or false regardless of how well qualified your (irrelevant) authors are.
the linked article doesn’t support the claim being made.
there has literally never been a holstein that lived 20 years without human intervention.
If a cow escapes the pasture, I wouldn’t be surprised to find it dead in 20 minutes. They require the aid of fences and the protection of farm dogs in the vast majority of environments they live in. Whoever is getting cattle to live 20 years is not doing so naturally, far from it
it makes no sense to discuss consent from cows. do you get consent from a lamp when you turn it on?
almost no cows end up as veal.