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[+] -17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

the way we treat animals is fucking horrifying.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Helping it not die from internal gas build up is horrifying? That sounds like an awful way to go.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I suspect they mean that their force fed diet that's causing an excess of methane buildup on the regular is the issue, not so much the pressure valve release situation happening in this video.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Theyre typically fed corn because it is cheaper, easy to store and transport and it makes beef taste "better". Cows are supposed to eat grass, not corn.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    From what I've heard from farmers, the really good beef is grass fed and then corn/grain finished. So the animal eats grass most of their life, and then for a little while before slaughter they are fed corn to build up their fat content.

    Could be wrong, but I've had multiple people who raised cows tell me this diet plan.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Pedant here: corn is a grass. Modified by centuries of selective breeding, and not endemic to the region where the aurochs were domesticated.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Corn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating.

    Normally grass grains aren't the majority diet of cows, it's the leaves.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Corn is grass the same way sugar is grass or bread is grass.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    This is exactly how we used to treat a collapsed lung in humans, sometimes still do. Been there, would rather have been poked with that method than the giant tube up my side to the top of my lung.

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