• OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “This is the police! Hands up you FREAK!”

    “…im a farmer”

    “omg thats so cool, can i bring my kids to watch and maybe they can try?”

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    8 months ago

    Well you can see cows as animals and as such living beings with rights (legally they don’t have those), or you can see them as objects used for food production.

    And if there’s money involved you are using the objects to make money.

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    9 months ago

    The posters here are the same types of men who used to argue that enslaved human beings weren’t ‘people,’ merely property to do with as they pleased.

    Yes, there are savagely callous, rather unintelligent and spiritually devoid humans who claim that cows - and by implication all other non-human beings - are not ‘people,’ but it doesn’t make it true. It just betrays their own barbaric stupidity.

    The argument that non-human animals do not possess some vague set of traits that make humans the only species worthy of being classified as ‘people,’ is small-minded and ignorant, and based on outdated, biased and anthropocentric beliefs.

    Cows, like all mammals, are beings who share the same kind of social bonds, care and love for family and community that humans share. They live complex emotional lives. They ARE ‘people,’ just as whales (who have been legally recognized as having personhood), dolphins, elephants and primates, are ‘people.’

    Unfortunately we live in a society that more readily ascribes personhood to a sociopathic corporation than it does to living, empathetic beings who nurture their young, suffer and grieve, and deserve to live lives of dignity as much as any human does.

    https://scitechdaily.com/this-cow-uses-tools-and-its-forcing-scientists-to-rethink-animal-intelligence/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html

    https://www.earthlawcenter.org/blog-entries/2024/7/whale-personhood-in-polynesia

  • endless_nameless@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s fucked up how people here only seem to have an issue with the cow getting artificially inseminated. The bulls can’t consent either. Just like with humans, people either don’t concern themselves with male consent, don’t think sexual abuse of men matters nearly as much as when it happens to women. I don’t really have an opinion on artificial insemination, I just found it fucked that this misandrist double standard is so strong it even extends to animals.