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I pick, “Tough Question” instead of Unpopular Opinion.
If a farmer owns the land that they farm are they, “workers who own the means of production” or “owners who should have their private property expropriated”?
asking for a friend
Always be sure to have enough bread to go with your soup. Soup just isn’t tasty without bread.
I did find a wire diagram for the make/model of the washer but that specific area is drawn with no numbers. So doesn’t seem like that particular part was meant for repairs.
I appreciate the links and my new vocabulary word of the evening, “hose barb.” I actually didn’t know what those were called.
Just a friendly FYI, the twitter link didn’t work with until i removed the hyphens at the end. Intentional or am I being a boomer?
Nitpicks from somebody who lives on a small farm.
“… most male cows are killed after just a couple years of life…”
Slaughter weight for cattle is about 12 months for conventional production and might be something like 1.5 to 2 years on a hippy dippy pasture operation, regardless of gender. The longer you keep a cow the more the feed costs add up. And folks who eat meat will complain that the meat is too tough and/or isn’t fatty enough.
“Efficiently producing dairy requires constantly impregnating cows…”
You don’t need to keep impregnating a cow to have it give milk. (Think about the human who are considered “weird” for breast feeding their child for more than a few years.) A lactating cow will continue to lactate for as long as something is draining the milk from their udders and they are kept reasonably healthy. Breed a cow once, keep it healthy, milk it every day and you can have milk for years. Dairy farms, the actual people working the cows, take the brunt of the dairy industry crash and can be pushed to keep breeding their milking herds to have extra income by selling bulls for breeding/meat and extra cows as replacements/meat.
I think a better term to use is “profitability” not “efficiency”. Not letting bull calves stay with their mothers who are being milked in a diary is an economic decision not an efficiency decision. Because feeding bull calves has a cost to the farmer and falling milk prices means every ounce of milk produced needs to be sold to cover expenses of running a dairy farm. Using Jersey cows selectively bred to give several gallons of milk a day instead of a Dexter that typically gives a gallon or less per milking is an economic decision, not an efficiency decision.
