• Sybil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The normal lifespan of a dairy cow is 5 years. two and a half to 3 years for beef cattle.

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          1 year ago

          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?

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            1 year ago

            Do you have qualifications that exceed (or equal) those of the individuals who wrote the article I linked

            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.

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        1 year ago

        there has literally never been a holstein that lived 20 years without human intervention.

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        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