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Robotic cow washer pleases dirty cow. That is all. (i.imgur.com)

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[–][deleted] 79 points80 points ago

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"Workin at the Cow Wash..."

[–]Granite-M 10 points11 points ago

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Workin at the cow wash, yeah...

[–]Contradiction11 -5 points-4 points ago

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We interrupt this collaborative song thread to bring you the idea that if a cow can feel pleasure, it can feel pain. The same nerve endings and the same pain centers in the brain as us can't be wrong. Go vegan!

[–]logged_in_to_comment 9 points10 points ago

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I can understand vegetarians. But why the hell shouldn't we eat unfertilized eggs and drink animal milk? It actually hurts the cow not to be milked. In addition, vegan-ism is difficult and not everyone can do it and most people can't do it healthfully. I don't know why your comment flustered me enough to log in.

[–]Granite-M 10 points11 points ago

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Well, if you want to really get down to the nitty gritty, a cow doesn't produce milk unless it's calved. The boy calves generally get slaughtered, and the girl calves get made into future milkers. That said, my uncle is an organic dairy farmer, and he takes his cows' well-being very seriously. Happy, healthy cows produce better milk, anyway, and the same rules apply to beef. I don't think any animal deserves to suffer unduly, but I'm quite secure in my position at the top of the food chain, and if anyone wants to tell me that I can never have Ben & Jerry's, sharp cheddar cheese, or a hamburger that's been marinated in Guiness beer and liberally seasoned with garlic and just a little Worcestershire sauce because it's somehow fundamentally immoral to kill cows (which, by the way, are so stupid that, left to their own devices, they will stumble into holes and die), then that person is quite welcome to go ahead and see what happens if they voluntarily cede their position to the wolves, coyotes, and bears. And don't even get me started on chickens. True, factory farming is bad for everyone, chicken and human alike, but chickens are some of the dumbest, least pleasant fucking creatures I have ever has the misfortune of interacting with. A cow can at least have some vestiges of mammalian fraternity with humanity. A chicken is about as friendly as an iguana, and just as trustworthy. Scale a chicken up to the size of a human being, and you know what you have? A velociraptor that would just as soon peck your face off as look at you. Killing and eating chickens is doing the whole world a favor.

And furthermore...

Ooh!

Some of the work gets you pretty clean

This is just the place to be if you planned on bein' a Holstein!

[–]MDdude92 1 point2 points ago

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Your thorough description of how terrible a chicken's personality is, made my day

[–]socks 1 point2 points ago

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...Come on and sing it with me cow wash.

Get with the feelin' y'all cow wash yeah.

[–]Gourmay 0 points1 point ago

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I'm going to play devil's advocate here somewhat but this:

cows (which, by the way, are so stupid that, left to their own devices, they will stumble into holes and die. Since when is stupidity our criteria to eat something? We support plenty of handicapped human beings who left to their own devices would suffer the same fate.

Also, pigs have widely been proven to be as smart as, if not smarter, than dogs... Just something to think about.

[–]Contradiction11 0 points1 point ago

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You know cows usually have a calf to get the milk out right? Do you know what dairy farmers do with calves?

[–]Gourmay 0 points1 point ago

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Having been a vegetarian for just over a year (former hardcore meat lover), I came to the sad conclusion a few days ago that there's actually not much point in being vegetarian if you're consuming say dairy products, and no, not even because so many cheeses contain rennets (fourth stomach chamber from calves) but because the calves are killed so we can enjoy dairy products in the first place. If one is vegetarian in protest of the disgraceful conditions in which factory-farmed animals are treated then by consuming dairy products (calves slaughtered, milk producing cows disposed of as soon as they start lowering their output) one is still strongly supporting that industry.

Either way the fundamental problem is consumption and the sheer amounts of meat, dairy etc. that we consume, the fact that we consume them is a different debate. Lowering the amounts we consume would generate incredible amounts of change; doing meatless Mondays has a bigger impact on the environment than a whole week of eating local food with a low carbon footprint (the study is somewhere on reddit).

[–]stoopidquestions 1 point2 points ago

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If that's the reasoning, why can't we eat arthropods?

[–]a_flying_beagle -1 points0 points ago

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Save the cow, eat a vegan!

[–]J05H -1 points0 points ago

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Same great taste now with smily clean feeling. Problem, officer?

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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patunk

]XB

not working anymore...off to the sluice machine for your

[–]tokeyoh 0 points1 point ago

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have you ever seen a cow poop? shits like an endless fountain

[–]windy444 27 points28 points ago

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Now that's the way they should be treated. Saw a show where the cows go into a fully automatic milking machine when they feel they need to be milked. I bet they give more milk when they are content. Nice to see.

[–]bottmanakers 29 points30 points ago

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Yeah the DeLaval Voluntary Milking System (VMS) is awesome. I work for the company the builds that and the automated cow brush in the picture. I can tell you first hand they love that bush. We have a dairy here that had a component fail so the unit was down for a few days. When our service guy put the new part in and fired it up the cows came running.

[–]miquette 21 points22 points ago

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I love the image of cows running over to get their brushings.

[–]dare2dan 1 point2 points ago

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Cool! My Dad used to be a DeLaval dealer. We sold and installed a few of the cow brushes, but I never got to see a VMS :( Just a few Lely robots. Still very cool!

[–]desaparecid0 15 points16 points ago

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In California especially, farmers recognize the benefits of keeping the cows comfortable and happy. Makes it much easier to get a cow pregnant (essential for milk cows) and also helps them avoid infection. I went to one of those 3-5 thousand cow farms in Cali and they had comfy sand beds, automated sprinkler systems, and the cows rarely needed to walk on concrete.

[–]candygram4mongo 23 points24 points ago

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This is about the fifth message like this I've seen here. I feel like we're being infiltrated by the California dairy marketing board.

[–]desaparecid0 7 points8 points ago

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I just feel like there is unlimited negative press for farms, especially 1,000+ cow farms. After seeing more than a dozen large farms (500-5000 cows) in 5 countries, while working on a documentary, I was legitimately impressed with the quality of care I saw in California and it seems that it's only getting better. They all still smell terrible though.

[–]BitRex 3 points4 points ago

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What documentary?

[–]desaparecid0 0 points1 point ago

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a commissioned one for research on the global dairy industry. not something for public consumption.

[–]Gourmay 0 points1 point ago

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So all the horrible stuff we see leaked on a daily basis or the laws that Iowa is trying to pass to make it a crime to film undercover are in your opinion not representative of factory farming?

Not being snarky just genuinely curious.

[–]desaparecid0 0 points1 point ago*

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I was never on a farm with more than 5,000 cows though, and a handful of farms is not a very accurate sample size, although i did see a variety. It seems that everyone is trying to keep up with the European industry, which has much more strict regulations, which means milk quality and cow comfort are going to keep going up, but so will prices.

It's worth mentioning that every single farmer I met genuinely cared about, or even loved their cows and had been in this industry because it was passed down to them and they had done it all their life, not because it's lucrative (it's not).

There are too many factors to make any broad statements about the industry. There are environmental impacts, animal rights, antibiotic and growth hormone arguments, milk quality issues (mastitis), some farmers buy drugs illegally instead of from licensed vets, and some farmers train their workers to administer drugs and perform surgery instead of hiring a vet. The use of illegal immigrants is also pretty much ubiquitous.

tl;dr there are really nice farms and there are really shitty farms.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points ago

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The problem is not the farmer. The problem is the step after the farmer. The numbers say we risk this much product by cramming this many cows into this much space and pumping them full of this much crap. The liability is worth the added profit, so it's done. Probably not as bad as all that, but you get the idea.

The real reason there's bad press for farms is because the second step has all the money.

[–]srs_house 1 point2 points ago

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Considering that the 'other side' has a pretty heavy following on here, is that such a bad thing?

[–]lynzee 0 points1 point ago

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Shhhhhhhhhh......just let it happen....

[–]windy444 4 points5 points ago

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As it should be. I'm not an animal activist but I do believe these animals deserve proper treatment.

[–]belsambar 1 point2 points ago

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I am curious, do you only drink milk from places where you know the animals are treated well?

[–]windy444 6 points7 points ago

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I have no idea where the milk I drink comes from. I was just glad to see how these cows were treated. That's all.

[–]belsambar 4 points5 points ago

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Okay, thanks for replying. It is a great sentiment to believe that animals deserve proper treatment. The problem is that so few people realize that they're contributing to the mistreatment of animals when they buy things at the supermarket. Virtually all animal products in this country come from factory farms, where animals are tortured all day long. If you really believe that animals deserve proper treatment, please try to buy products that are somehow certified as being from cruelty-free farms.

[–]windy444 2 points3 points ago

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I believe but, don't know for sure, that most of our beef, chicken and pork is local to our province. We don't as a rule eat a lot of this as my wife and I watch our diets and try to avoid fatty red meats. Thank you for mentioning certification of cruelty-free farms. Next shopping trip I will look for this certification, although I have never seen it in the past.

[–]belsambar 0 points1 point ago

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Ah, you sound like you are from somewhere other than the US (we don't have provinces). I have learned a lot about the meat and dairy industry in the US, but don't know very much at all about the situation in other countries. You sound like you have a good head on your shoulders. Best.

[–]windy444 0 points1 point ago

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With age comes wisdom... sometimes. Canada btw.

[–]wangston 0 points1 point ago

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How do they clean the sand beds?

[–]desaparecid0 1 point2 points ago

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they change the sand out, they also have an auger type thing they attach to a tractor and drive along the beds. the auger basically "fluffs" the sand to make it more comfortable. This was one farm though, there are still plenty of places where the cows just have a rubber mat over cement.

I think the next step is going to be using some artificial substance instead of sand, that is also anti-microbial and anti-bacterial.

[–]Dynoman 0 points1 point ago

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They probably don't, just scoop out the old and replace with new. Old sand is probably used as fertilizer on crop fields, at least that is how it was done on the farm I visited.

[–]Rhenjamin 1 point2 points ago

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Now that robotic milking systems are becoming popular, farmers are noticing that the cows quickly become bored and quit mooing without as much human contact. This translates into falling production. There are many ways to keep cows stimulated, such as changing flavors of the feed on a regular basis (corn syrups are popular like grape or cherry...seriously). Brushes and misters are also good options.

[–]windy444 1 point2 points ago

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Grape?... Cherry?... Count me in.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Haven't any of the farmers played Harvest Moon?, brush those cows and tell them how good they are dammit!

[–]BaronVonSlapNuts 78 points79 points ago

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ME MOOSTA

[–]narosaki 6 points7 points ago

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Relevant

[–]r1ptid3 13 points14 points ago

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This is a dairy setup. You can tell by the tagging on the collar which the automated system uses to determine milk output and feeding rations.

[–]st_claire 0 points1 point ago

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Do people ever see the cows? Does it use a camera to read the collar tag, or do they use rfid or something like that?

[–]therocketflyer 26 points27 points ago

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This cow must be in California.

[–]adambadam 0 points1 point ago

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Happy cow, good cheese

[–]geon 11 points12 points ago

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Not washer. It's a scratcher.

It is also not very robotic, but I'll let that slide.

[–]PfionaBW 1 point2 points ago

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This is true. Cows love a good back scratch and without a scratcher, they'll scratch against fences or whatever they can find, usually destroying whatever it is they chose to rub against. The farmers I know, get the old street cleaning brushes off of the street cleaning trucks and stand them up on a post in the pasture for the cows to scratch on.

[–]TheGreatestDeception 0 points1 point ago

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what do cows in the wild use, trees?

[–]PfionaBW 2 points3 points ago

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I love the idea of wild cows.

[–]TheGreatestDeception 0 points1 point ago

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lawl. you might enjoy the mental image when reading this then. (i imagined anthropomorphic pushing, shoving, fighting and attitude). but u know what i mean really, don't you

ah, you're the person i originally asked. really u sound like you know about this, so what would cows in the wild really (have) use(d)??

[–]PfionaBW 1 point2 points ago

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Ya, I suppose they would have had to suffice with trees. They probably had favorite scratching trees.

[–]TheGreatestDeception 0 points1 point ago

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:)

[–]JHStarner 115 points116 points ago

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Really?! ಠ_ಠ

[–]chobur 71 points72 points ago

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In his/her defense the title added a lot.

[–]enhance_that 36 points37 points ago

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I don't understand when people put "That is all." at the end of their titles. Your title was already complete!

[–]matt_thelazy 6 points7 points ago

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Roger! Roger!

[–]phld21 7 points8 points ago

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It's to make it sound like an announcement over a PA system.

[–]learningphotoshop 3 points4 points ago

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It's because people upvote posts with that in the title. It was a strategic title choice, dam commies.

[–]helium_farts 2 points3 points ago

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10-4 good buddy.

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[–]lamerx -1 points0 points ago

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Upvote for the Airplane refrence.. To which I believe the correct response would be
Roger roger.
Not break out into a Paul Simon song

[–]RXrenesis8 -2 points-1 points ago

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Just hop on the bus, Gus.

[–]CapsuleCorp -1 points0 points ago

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Make a new plan, Stan.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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No need to be coy, Roy.

[–]helium_farts -1 points0 points ago

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Don't tarry, Larry.

[–]GET_A_LAWYER 1 point2 points ago

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That's what the period is for.

[–]TheGreatestDeception 0 points1 point ago

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this particular time, i read the "That is all" with meaning. It didn't even occur that it was the phrase "That is all" until i saw your comment.

the very point of this post is the highlighting of a simple beauty. therefore "That is all" has actual relevant meaning, rather than being used as punctuation.

[–]Gothiks -1 points0 points ago

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The title was misleading.

[–]faultlessjoint 14 points15 points ago

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Well, this is the first time I have ever seen or heard the word abattoir and might not have even clicked on that link if I saw it.

[–]WarPhalange 15 points16 points ago

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Bullshit. It's an imgur link. You would have been all over that shit like any other redditor.

[–]ineedanap 0 points1 point ago

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Front page earlier this afternoon was 2 gifs, the netflix debachle, and all the rest were imgur... Reddit is in full devolve now.

[–]qumahlin 1 point2 points ago

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now?

[–]BaronVonSlapNuts -4 points-3 points ago

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Your illiteracy does not excuse reposts.

[–]faultlessjoint 0 points1 point ago

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Yes it does.

[–]Toiler_in_Darkness -1 points0 points ago

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Reddit is a democracy, you are free to vote as you please and so is everyone else. You can claim to speak for all of us, but the votes seem to indicate otherwise.

There's no need to excuse reposts. They are a good thing according to the majority vote.

[–]cwstjnobbs 1 point2 points ago

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In defence of the OP that other link has a misleading title.

That is a dairy cow, it is not in an abbatoir.

I am also pretty sure that the machine is just a massager not a washer but don't quote me on that.

[–]srs_house 1 point2 points ago

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It's not an abattoir, it's a dairy farm...

[–]lamerx 1 point2 points ago

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Relivent
So you are complaining about someone reposting your repost? Really?! ಠ_ಠ

[–]JHStarner 0 points1 point ago

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Um... Not quite sure what you are referring to. Not my post at all. I was more pointing out that wanttoseemycat had reposted something a mere 7 minutes after clangboomsteam had posted said posting. It is this kind of reposting that is lame and annoying.

[–]lamerx -1 points0 points ago

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its a repost of a repost of a repost

[–]jntwn 3 points4 points ago

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Downvote all the things?

[–]Coriform 2 points3 points ago

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Considering that I had no idea what the word "abattoir" meant (and don't have thumbnails enabled), I would likely not click that link.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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You never played Splinter Cell eh?

[–]TwoHands 6 points7 points ago

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Not a washer. Is a scratcher. Keeps cows from rubbing up on barbed wire and other sharp stuff.

Also not robotic, notice no electronicly articulated hinge or joint. It's fixed in place. Just a motorized scratcher, and yes... that cow seems to be enjoying it a lot.

[–]simtz 56 points57 points ago

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More like this. http://i.imgur.com/fHj7X.jpg

[–]darksober -1 points0 points ago

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My faith in humanity has been restored.

[–]rippedlikejesus 2 points3 points ago

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Well that was easy.

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points ago

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She's in udder paradise.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points ago

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Good mammaries to last her whole life long.

[–]Aargauer 8 points9 points ago

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She'll milk it for all it's worth

[–]CowFu 8 points9 points ago

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She cud stand there all day

[–]Nrksbullet 4 points5 points ago*

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I think we should all give RICHARDapuzzo 20 dollars.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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No. Stop this.

[–]Nrksbullet 4 points5 points ago

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Okay fine, I was just trying to be nice.

[–]nolemonnomelon 0 points1 point ago

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hahaha excellent edit there

[–]st_claire -1 points0 points ago

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She's having a real teat

[–]ObeseSnake 13 points14 points ago

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Happy cows = good milk.

[–]runarmar 6 points7 points ago

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More like: Happy cows = a lot of milk

[–]desaparecid0 9 points10 points ago

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Unhappy cows can pump out the record amounts of milk thanks to drugs and dietary additives. Happy cows get sick less and their udders get infected less. Amount of infection determines milk quality. Happy cows = less pus in your milk.

[–]srs_house 2 points3 points ago

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Cows that aren't happy are usually more stressed, which makes them more prone to illness - just like people. Drugs (ie man-made hormones identical to those naturally produced by cows) can help a cow produce an extra 10%-20% milk, and dietary additives help ensure a cow gets a balanced diet that keeps their rumen healthy.

[–]runarmar 1 point2 points ago

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I'm happy with not knowing beforehand of drugs that increase the milk amount. In any case, we're both right I guess.

[–]mrpoopistan 8 points9 points ago

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I'm normally opposed to reposts, but cows make everything a little better.

[–]baldmanspeaking 0 points1 point ago

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Including burgers

[–]krugnasty 2 points3 points ago

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Sweet jesus thats good

[–]zombieq 2 points3 points ago

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They need these at the entrance of Wal-Mart.

[–]dp85 5 points6 points ago

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Moo Gusta

[–]Dybdalk 5 points6 points ago

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*Me moosta

[–]Estoye 2 points3 points ago

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"That feels nice."

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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previous model

[–]ObeyTheCowGod 2 points3 points ago

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I know cows and I can confirm that is one happy cow.

[–]diuvic 4 points5 points ago

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Silly cow! You are not a car!

[–]Vee_Vee 5 points6 points ago

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1296609/The-cow-wash-How-automatic-brushing-machine-improve-milk-production.html

[–]Gourmay 0 points1 point ago

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Please don't link to the Daily Mail if you can, they are our Brit equivalent to Fox News and post a tremendous amount of homophobic/racist/deceitful stories.

You can often find these stories somewhere else if you want to link or just link to a screenshot ;)

[–]Vee_Vee -1 points0 points ago

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I don't give a shit. The story is relevant.

[–]Fulty 1 point2 points ago

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpAVKKbJ36w

[–]WPI94 0 points1 point ago

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"So, what do you do, Hank?" "I make cow brushes!" "No shit!"

[–]iknowadude 1 point2 points ago

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aw and then we killed all if its close and distant relatives

[–]0_0_0 1 point2 points ago

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What's robotic about it besides the proximity activation? It swings freely, for heaven's sake.

[–]nicodemus26 0 points1 point ago

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Autonomous device is autonomous. Don't be hatin'! You'd swing freely too, if you could.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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feels good man

[–]oscill8 1 point2 points ago

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Don't see the cow for all the poodirt on the walls.

[–]PhantomCheezit 1 point2 points ago

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BRUSHIE BRUSHIE BRUSHIE

[–]w3sticles 1 point2 points ago

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Hate to be that guy, but it's not robotic.

[–]bigrich1776 1 point2 points ago

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Relevant

[–]windy444 0 points1 point ago

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I'm not drinkin' no bat milk!

[–]brewtalizer 1 point2 points ago

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That cow looks like its in Nirvana...

[–]baddyart 1 point2 points ago

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The title sounds disturbingly NSFW.

[–]daninmontreal 1 point2 points ago

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"Ohhhhhh sweet jesus!!!"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I love everything about this.

[–]polost 1 point2 points ago

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Feels good man.

[–]dare2dan 1 point2 points ago

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This is a DeLaval rotating cow brush. They're very expensive, but apparently worth it in milk production gains. Happy cows = more milk!

And by expensive, I mean $3000 - $4000 Canadian.

[–]belsambar 2 points3 points ago

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Just a public service announcement:

About 17-18% of US ground beef comes from dairy cows.

and

In a study in the USA in 2008, eight different brands of fast food hamburgers were evaluated for water content by weight and recognizable tissue types using morphological techniques that are commonly used in the evaluation of tissue's histological condition. The study found that the content of the hamburgers included:

Water content 37.7% to 62.4% (mean, 49%)

Meat content 2.1% to 14.8% (median, 12.1%)

Skeletal tissue

Connective tissue

Blood vessels

Peripheral nerve tissue

Plant material

Adipose tissue

Bone and Cartilage ("Bone and cartilage, observed in some brands, were not expected; their presence may be related to the use of mechanical separation in the processing of the meat from the animal. Small amounts of bone and cartilage may have been detached during the separation process")[5]

Recent meat processing methods employed companies such as Beef Products Inc., have led to the inclusion of "pink slime" (a trimmings meat product that has been separated using a centrifuge and treated with ammonia) in up to 70% of ground beef products in the USA. This products has been included in US meat products since 2001[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_mince

[–]Psychomedic 2 points3 points ago

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I would be pissed if my hamburger had no water in it. Dry hamburgers are not fun to eat.

[–]belsambar 1 point2 points ago

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I'd be pissed if my hamburger had 2% meat in it. Or any amount of ammonia.

The MOST meat in a fast food hamburger is 14.8%. That's crazy.

[–]Psychomedic 1 point2 points ago

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Well yeah when you're buying hamburger meat at 2 cents per gram it's going to be mostly filler and the 'non-meat' meat. I would have guessed 20-30% but I would have included blood vessels and some other non-muscle material as meat.

I didn't know about the ammonia treatment though, which is apparently so they can use shittier meat and avoid e-coli contamination. The 70% figure doesn't come from the sourced article so that needs to be fixed.

[–]I_TYPE_IN_ALL_CAPS 4 points5 points ago

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ISN'T THAT BETTER THAN JUST THROWING ALL THAT OTHER SHIT AWAY? IF YOU CAN PACKAGE IT INTO A PALATABLE FORM, WHY NOT?

[–]belsambar 1 point2 points ago

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Because it seems deceitful to package all that gross shit and call it "hamburger." But I'm not the one eating it, so go right ahead.

[–]zjneih2 3 points4 points ago

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I'm a realist who enjoys eating meat. If it's cheap, it's not going to harm people, tastes fine, and is easily accessible to the masses, I don't see the issue.

[–]belsambar 1 point2 points ago

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Because countless animals suffer constantly. That is the issue. You might not care about it, but that is the issue. Well, that, and the fact that the meat and dairy industries are just about the worst polluters in the world.

Unless you're talking specifically about the "meat" additives stuff, in which case I'd say the issue is the very liberal type of labeling that occurs. If I thought I was consuming "meat" and learned that it was actually 2% meat, 50% water, and the rest a mixture of connective tissue, ammonia and fat, I'd be upset. Call me crazy.

[–]Gourmay 0 points1 point ago

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2nd biggest producers of CO2 to be precise. In front of the transport industry.

[–]FearlessBuffalo -1 points0 points ago

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Fuck everything about the meatindustry. Last month I found out that gluing meat together is something that happens... Very often.

But seriously though. The meat and dairy industry pisses me off more than anything. Some mechanical brush isn't making up for all the suffering.

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Only in the UK where matured beef is more rare and much more expensive. Its a country that primarily eats veal if they are eating cow. That is something they forgot to mention or you may have missed. Its only cost viable to use the meat glue in Britain. The way that fake eggs pretty much only exist in China. Its actually cheaper to buy good cuts of meat in the US than to acquire various spare cuts and glue them together.

[–]FearlessBuffalo 0 points1 point ago

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I'm sure it's common practice in a lot of EU countries. I read somewhere that it's almost undetectable. You buy something that looks like a perfect steak but it's actually pieced together, you cannot see the difference in most cases. That shit scares the shit out of me. Big corporations will do anything to make a buck. That's why, when I buy my steaks (I'm mostly vegetarian but sometimes I indulge), I buy them from a farmer that I know personally and that only slaughters a couple of animals a year. I've seen enough factory farms to know that anything that comes out of that place will have received lesser quality of treatment and nutrition.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Thats the best thing you can do.

[–]link_gorro 1 point2 points ago

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Right before it's slaughtered and turned into that juicy Big Mac.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points ago

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Actually a single hamburger is made up (potentially) of hundreds of cows as the choice meat is stripped and cut, then the remains are put together and blended to make hamburger.

[–]wanttoseemycat[S] 5 points6 points ago

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Hey at least the meat was cleaner.

[–]spaceboundllama 1 point2 points ago

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Rage face?

[–]watacara 0 points1 point ago

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gotta purify that chocolate milk somehow

[–]bhein 0 points1 point ago

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Feels good man

[–]Gates9 0 points1 point ago

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Good cow. Now into the neck-slicer with ye!

[–]leeroyj 0 points1 point ago

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relevant

[–]x2501x 0 points1 point ago

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That lead me to this... super cows <--note for better or worse includes scene with a guy carrying a big condom full of bull semen, among other things.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Me Next!

[–]jigby61 0 points1 point ago

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She looks happy

[–]DeadFreshman 0 points1 point ago

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Damn it feels good to be a bovine!

[–]BenEatsNails 0 points1 point ago

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The title is extremely misleading.

[–]Stuewe 0 points1 point ago

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Those dirty, dirty, cows!

[–]belsambar 0 points1 point ago

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I have to say... this brush seems like a great thing. It keeps the animals clean and happy (or, at least, happier than they would be otherwise at a dairy farm). It helps the farm owners by supposedly increasing milk production, and helps the animals a bit. If the dairy industry needs to exist, things like this brush should exist, as well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1296609/The-cow-wash-How-automatic-brushing-machine-improve-milk-production.html

[–]Gerryoak 0 points1 point ago

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and then cow was slaughtered

[–]lisabadcat 0 points1 point ago

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Robotic cow killer pleases carnivores.

[–]stickymcbells 0 points1 point ago

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That's a pretty cow :3

[–]count_niggula 0 points1 point ago

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damn cow 153, you a crazy bitch

[–]without_feathers 0 points1 point ago

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Why do we eat cows? They're our friends. Do you eat your friends? Are you going to eat me!? I don't want to be friends anymore.

[–]st_claire 0 points1 point ago

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wash me bitch!

[–]PeterMus 0 points1 point ago

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I feel mildly jealous.

[–]fedges 0 points1 point ago

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awesome

[–]hawaiianrule 0 points1 point ago

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Looks like it just smears cow poo all over.

[–]pureisobscure 0 points1 point ago

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sing it... "milkin at the cow wash"

[–]mooman2679 0 points1 point ago

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I also enjoy this.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I heard somewhere that the farmers just put them there, and those machines activate automatically when some pressure is applied. The cows love it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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That cow looks so happy.

[–]Nightmare_King 0 points1 point ago

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Mmmmmmmmyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh......right there...

[–]waffleninja 0 points1 point ago

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First of all, repost. I mean a huge repost. Second of all, it's not a washer, it's a massager. Get your facts straight.

[–]powshred 0 points1 point ago

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In Norway, every cowfarm that is to be built from 2015 is required to be like this. You will not be allowed to do it any other way.

[–]Eshry 0 points1 point ago

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He's so happy :3

[–]VA1N 0 points1 point ago

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Wait until it gets to the derriere

[–]ZakkuHiryado 0 points1 point ago

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I really hate that cows are so tasty because they are also really cute.

[–]jtwilkins 0 points1 point ago

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Wish I could buy one of these for all the great farm sanctuaries.

[–]piney 0 points1 point ago

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Workin' at the cow wash, yeah!

[–]adamjt 0 points1 point ago

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Next up, SLAUGHTERBOT!

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points ago

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Oh god those poor mistreated cows.

[–]mobu -1 points0 points ago

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I gotta look good before they chop me into pieces

[–]Great_Gig_In_The_Sky -1 points0 points ago

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Happy cows come from...oh dear god...

[–]raffytraffy -1 points0 points ago

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the next step in the process is a giant meat cleaver.

[–]Chugaboy -1 points0 points ago

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He looks so happy and tastey!

[–]boardguy -1 points0 points ago

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me moosta

[–]corgonin -1 points0 points ago

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Just because it's a cow on a farm you automatically assume it's dirty? What is your problem? Are you anti-bovinist or something? You people and your anti-bovinism make me sick.

[–]theineffablebob -2 points-1 points ago

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And then off to the slaughterhouse! :D

[–]BLUNT_ALLCAPS_GUY -2 points-1 points ago

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LOL THAT COWS PROBABLY BEING SERVED FOR DINNER SOMEWHERE.

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