part 367 bears and wolves oh my

[aphanon_meme]

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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Re: itt: an entire dollar, an entire DOLLAR, for your thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

I guess this depends on which aspects of the process you despise. If it's the separation of cow and calf, the slaughter of male calves, and the slaughter of non-productive cows, then there's nothing for it but to stop buying cows' milk entirely. Unless you are in India, where cows are revered so dairy farms are slaughter free. However, if all or even a significant portion of dairy farms worldwide became slaughter free, we'd run into another ethical issue: each cow produces as much pollution as a car (I'm sure fartjokeanon would approve), not to mention the amount of water and pasture land they need, so the results of keeping all those cows for their natural lifespans is environmental disaster.

If your issue is only the humane treatment of the cows for the time that they are alive, then it's a bit easier to navigate. Pay more for milk from local, smaller farms, and avoid factory farms. I used to live in a farm town, and have once visited a friend's dairy farm. It's not unpleasant, there's no overcrowding, the cows get to spend much of their time grazing outside.

Personally, my discomfort with the meat/dairy industry is less about the livestock and more about the environmental impact, the resources taken to keep that livestock, the methane emissions from cows in particular, the destruction of wilderness to create pasture land. I don't mind humans killing animals any more than I mind the idea of one animal killing another animal, but I am very concerned about contributing to our already pretty damn grim looking future. I don't want to go vegan, I love the taste of milk and dairy and think an omnivorous diet is the healthiest, but I have reduced my meat consumption to once or twice a week, and milk to a liter per two weeks; ideally I'll reduce further. I'm considering goat's milk as well, but that's quite difficult to find here and expensive. Goats do require less pasture, produce only a tenth as much methane emissions as cows, and are not factory farmed in the US because, well, there probably isn't enough profit in it for a large corporation.

Tl;dr but basically I feel kinda the same. Dairy is delicious, but the environmental costs are troubling.