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"Why?" Same reason the dead Queen Elizabeth of the UK cared more about the family trees of her gun dogs and race horses than those of her own human family much less her masses of human subjects. She loved her animal pets more than anyone from her human family or human servants. People like her love to control others using selective breeding while demanding constant bows and genuflecting to their oh so "blue" blood. Never forget all that aristocratic primogeniture with interbreeding of human heirs to big new fortunes is to keep the old big fortunes big over many generations. It's all about maintaining power and money, and thinking by picking their brood stock they can produce healthy heirs. Add eugenics by shuffling DNA in labs and it's a crazy dangerous Frankenstein time. Note this irony: in thoroughbred horse breeding there is no artificial insemination allowed. Instead, stud fees are paid to stallion owners who earn the biggest money in that horse business when the brood mares are brought to the stud farms' breeding barns. The other money maker in that business is the bookies feeding off gamblers.

Learned a lot about USA dairy business from Derrick Josi, a member of the Tillamook co-op. He wrote a book last year with lots of good info on dairy artificial insemination. He's online as TDFHonestFarming. Dairy bull semen and cows' genetics are tracked for healthy offspring, milk quality, and easy births. Dairy cows who are not top milk producers are bred to beef cross bulls to produce offspring for the beef markets. Each year cows come into heat genetically programmed to become pregnant just like wild bison. If a cow does not produce enough quality milk to justify staying in a milking herd - in the cut throat world wide dairy products commodity market - she becomes beef jerky and other beef products. All this genetic tracking means dairy cows today in the USA produce more milk with less food which helps to keep our diary food prices reasonable. Under a professional nutritionist's care they eat cheap "waste" things like cotton byproduct and mill run from processed wheat. Derrick's herd also eats corn silage and other crops grown on his fields where he sprays their manure meaning he uses little chemical fertilizers. Yummy butter, milk, cheese, and beef jerky. Better products than horse racing's bread & circuses!

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Truth in farming.🤢

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Dick's avatar

Glad I get my pastured raw milk from the three-cow jersey farm up the road, I can tell you!

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CH's avatar

Cotton byproduct? That is what Crisco is and it is disgusting.

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The TDF dairyman had a video showing his cows' typical "daily ration." Often included are the husks and seeds of the cotton balls and some of the other parts of that plant not used for cotton which used to be thrown away by cotton mills. Just like the "mill run" of husks of wheat seeds which are a byproduct from making white flour. Most of wha he feeds his cows seems to be things like cracked corn, entire corn plants chopped up and put in bunkers to ferment ("silage") and alfalfa.

He also has no bulls on his dairy farm. "Too dangerous" to let them mount his cows. Bruises, scrapes, broken bones. Dangerous also to humans to move bulls around. Safer for his cows to get A.I. He often shows on his social media his female cows mounting any cow in heat. Their wild forbears do that in nature. It's all normal bovine herd dynamics. He usually when that happens quickly turns his camera away saying. "Ladies! This is family show!!" But, he shows it as a debating point to explain why dairy cows being artificially inseminated are not being "raped." They want to get pregnant when in heat.

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