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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I only want my meat to be raised by a cow on a feedlot while covered in manure and constantly smelling so awful, I would gag if I ever went. Then I want that cow's greatest mental stimulation to be the one time he climbed on top of the 1 meter pile of manure and could see further than any other cow, and then proceed to stick his head back into the giant trough of corn that's been pre-mixed with antibiotics because corn is not a natural food source for cows. That's what meat is supposed to be, as god intended.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Let's drink swill milk [Wikipedia] to that.

The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk.

Swill milk referred to milk from cows fed swill which was residual mash from nearby distilleries. The milk was whitened with plaster of Paris, thickened with starch and eggs, and hued with molasses.

Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases. These cows were fed boiling distillery waste, often leaving the cows with rotting teeth and other maladies. The milk drawn from the cows was routinely adulterated with water, rotten eggs, flour, burnt sugar, and other adulterants with the finished product then marketed falsely as "pure country milk" or "Orange County Milk".

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

Aaahhh the good ol' 1850 to which the Republican party surely will return us by next year where rich assholes can destroy the world for an extra dollar

[–] courageousstep@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

What the absolute fuck.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

sounds like the people owning these 'farms' actively try their hardest with all their might to be as evil as possible

Thank goodness we're firing all those wasteful government bureaucrats, who were adding red tape and keeping businesses from innovating. Soon things will be great again, like in the 1850...

[–] riskable@programming.dev -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Just an FYI: In Florida (at least) a similar bill was passed not because of any concerns about lab-grown meat but because loads and loads of rich people keep small amounts of cattle on their property which gives them massive property tax breaks (money that most of these counties desperately need). There's literally over a million cows living like cow kings in Florida.

I get what you're saying about factory farms but I just wanted to point out the truth: While those conditions are common for other farm animals I'm not aware of it being that common for cows (in the US) 🤷

As far as I know the factory farms that are like that are all related to poultry and swine (the people that run them).

[–] agoseris@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago

While cows are not factory farmed at the same rate as other farm animals, over 70% are raised in factory farms (in the US).

Source (they used USDA data): https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estimates