LS, you echo my response when I hear people rant about the damage to Gaia from paving over the planet and drilling holes all over the place...

My response? Those complainers most likely are living in a high-rise apartment in a large urban center and have never gotten onto an airplane and looked out the window during a transcontinental (US) flight.

They have NO concept of how EMPTY most of the country is or how much of even urban areas are NOT covered with homes or pavement.

It's a dreamworld for them. Likewise, a lot of the loons commenting on that video have never seen a clean factory farm or lived or worked on one. Their reality comes from the publications of their own cults which filter the data for them.

Gee... sort of like some other subjects we've dealt with here, eh? :)

Something like 60+ years ago, one of my grade school class trips in NJ was to the Walker-Gordon RotoLactor building near Princeton.

Cows, gently herded into automatic stalls, every udder washed and sanitized before automated milkers collected their output, then attendants checked them and I think even washed some.. and when they finished their trip around the wheel, they were released back to the fields to graze. Not a cruel maneuver at all to be seen and a bunch of relaxed cows as you could imagine.

C'mon, Robbie.. how big was that herd?
If they had a few thousand head, would they be hand-milking?

I live for they day that scientists discover that plants are sentient beings! What will all these idiots do? What will they eat and wear then!
Hopefully they will do the right thing and commit Seppuku...

I think the intent of the ad(s) is to show that the cheese is not an artificial product without actually saying so. Currently, most advocacy groups carry their protests way too far and as a result tend to diminish legitimate protest.

Female allosaurs do, providing they don't kill all their suitors first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9IjL2RC...

Where did the action of "rape" come into play? Is there something about dairy farmers that we're not being told?

Seriously, these nut jobs continue to insist upon placing animals on the same level as humans. We can only hope that they never get into politics as adults.

Remove the warming labels, let natural selection take its course!

That's why we have division of labor and specialists, and begin to understand causes and long-term effects, like pollution and extinction.

+1 for truth and humor.

Once they find out how much methane those cows produce they would probably want them euthanized for polluting the air, but that of course would be cruel. The circular logic might make their heads explode eventually.

Guess I laid an egg.

"Animal Advocacy"? And who speaks for humans?

Presumably these students have nothing against natural exploitation, such as foxes eating chickens, and chickens eating worms.

Young people are naturally idealistic. Using the products of man's mind (buildings, printing, Internet), they object to other "apps" of man's mind (agriculture, animal husbandry, mass production).

As with any situation, those who object should be required to produce a better solution. OK, Berkeley, what would you do with all those cows?

can't milk a chicken............................

"........worship of the earth,..." refusing to identify that man belongs on earth............ergo, hate of man, ergo, self-loathing.....................

Isn't Inane Protesting 101 part of the Gender Studies courses?

Only a jerkeley would come from Berkeley?

Do people go to Berkeley to get an education or to learn how to protest? It's just a matter of time before they notice that the sun comes up in the east and start protesting that. If I was still employing people I wouldn't hire anyone from this school no matter the grade point average. It would just be buying trouble. They'd start protesting wooden pencils and disrupting the workplace pitching their little asinine fits.

That is brilliant. +1

Some farms have milking robots and the cows are able to walk in at a time of their own choosing to be relieved by the machines. The story reported that once the cows figure it out, it works remarkably well.

I out grew that.