it's not made by cows for anything. they dont have any volition in the process.
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design implies a designer.
It would not be financially viable otherwise, and small-scale farms that try to avoid this practice can't provide enough dairy to feed the human population
but if you disregard this arbitrary goal, then any particular dairy operation could, in fact, operate apart from the meat industry.
milk isn't designed except by humans through selective breeding, and that is designed for human use
If you would focus on the actual question at hand, instead of making a tyrade against the example I used.
I only wanted to point out some facts. I am not going on a tirade. your comments are longer than mine by orders of magnitude, and unable to stay focused on the only topic I mentioned in my first comment in this thread.
The bottom line is that the dairy industry causes harm and suffering to animals, including supplementing connected industries like veal and beef,
ok...
which many people justify as a way to minimise waste of necessary byproducts of the dairy industry
conserving resources is good...
while ignoring or overlooking the fact that the dairy industry itself is unnecessary.
I don't see why that matters. we do have a dairy industry. conserving resources within it is just smart.
when largely it is the majority),
how much veal do you think is made? how many pounds per calf? how many male calves are born a year? you're just wrong.
The fact that any calves in the dairy industry are killed for veal, or even for beef (at only a few years older, still a fraction of their natural lifespan), is of course a harm, whether you agree with it or not. Killing an animal is harming them, no matter if they're a baby animal or a few-year-old animal.
ok....
It's a harm toward animals that some might justify as a necessary component of dairy production, which it is. But
no, it's not.
dairy production itself isn't necessary. And that was the crux of the fallacy I'm alluding to.
my first comment was acknowledging that it's just an example.
Most what? Calves or male calves? Because it's factually incorrect to say that most male calves aren't killed for veal. They evidently are.
I did the math. there is no way more than 5% of male calves become veal, no matter how much propaganda has been produced to the contrary.
do you need help with the algebra or arithmetic?
You used this to make a statement that I never disagreed with, because I was making a different one.
I am the one who made the claim about the amount of cattle that become veal. I then supported it when you said that I was wrong. nothing you've provided actually contradicts what I have said or the data that I provided.
most are not killed for veal
450 is the slaughter weight for veal. 3/4 ton for beef. but let's say it's 150. it's still a slim minority of calves.