RE: Milk?
April 4, 2015 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2015 at 3:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We're probably all at the level of discussion wherein no participant actually believes that there is a smiling cow making all that cheese (I don;t think that the farmers or advertisers actually want us to believe that the smiling cow exists either). I just think that your interpreting indifference (on both sides on the producer/consumer line) as subterfuge. People in sweatshops sometimes do smile....they're much more expressive and convincing than cows - to me, still...I see a sweatshop. When I tour a dairy, I see the work - I see the employees and livestock...not the tourguide.
Maybe we approached it from different points. I was already familiar with dairy operations before I ever thought to consider the ethics of it all - so I see systems and scraping shit off the stalls. Maintenance and washout on all the plumbing. Cows whose working bits are about as beat up as a boxers working bits. Low wages..........the whole thing shittified so that, essentially...people can afford milk and trust that milk will be available at the shelves.
Maybe we approached it from different points. I was already familiar with dairy operations before I ever thought to consider the ethics of it all - so I see systems and scraping shit off the stalls. Maintenance and washout on all the plumbing. Cows whose working bits are about as beat up as a boxers working bits. Low wages..........the whole thing shittified so that, essentially...people can afford milk and trust that milk will be available at the shelves.
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