• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It is sexual, it sounds like they jack them off to acquire genetic material to impregnate the female livestock with

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      Trying to be “facts forward” so make of this what you will. Source: I was in FFA in highschool in a beef intense-ish area.

      The method of collecting semen I’m most familiar with is when they take a female cow in heat and tie her up, then bring a male bull they want to collect semen from into the same pen. The male will smell the female is in heat, gets erect, and will attempt to mount her.

      As the male is trying to mount the female, people in the pen with the cattle will have a large rubbery “sleeve” on a pole (imagine a cow sized condom on a stick) that they will maneuver around the bull’s penis as it mounts the cow. He does his thing in the condom thinking he’s inside the female (usually less than 30 seconds) dismounts and then the ranchers have their semen for artificial insemination.

      I’ve been out of that area for over a decade now so a new method may have emerged since then, but in my Animal Sciences class, that’s how we were taught semen is harvested for most livestock.

      Edit: I distinctly recall the “artificial vagina” being on a stick (and laughing about it in class), but best video I can find on the quick: https://youtu.be/-4ma3WeOxbo

          • Anisette [any/all]@quokk.au
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            2 months ago

            If I were to artificially inseminate a woman with sperm from a spermbank without her consent, would that be sexual assault?

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                  2 months ago

                  Others Beings have rights

                  Only if we say so. We invented the entire “rights” thing in the first place and we’re kind of in charge of handing them out.

                  If you believe in god(s)

                  Nope, just plain old non-existence after death for me.

                  • 1st. I understand why you might believe that wrong, based upon second answer. Everything born-living has Rights, simply because of birth-existence, somethings are not technically birthed into this world. It is more of a reflection upon those do not accept that fact.

                    By the way, the most powerful thing, outside of universal forces, are all our minds & together they even more powerful.

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                2 months ago

                right mate, I am sure you can draw any equivalences with bestiality and such yourself, so I won’t explicate on them. I just want to say, you don’t have to defend the man-made horrors within our comprehension of animal product industries if you don’t want to be a vegan. I am not a vegan, because I can’t afford to. You can just say “that shit’s fucked up”.

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                  2 months ago

                  There is a lot of horrible things in animal agriculture, this one isn’t really one of them. I’ve seen the process with my own eyes … the cows don’t care, they barley notice. I feel more for the people who have to do that professionally.