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Judging by the horns, this milk is going to taste a bit salty
That’s not how it works. Female cows can have horns.
Huh. TIL
You don’t usually see female cows with horns, since they get burnt off shortly after birth with either fire or acid.
That’s sad. I’d like to stop learning now.
Cows only produce milk when they’ve recently had a baby, so farmers get their cows pregnant every year. The females become the new milking cows, and the males go into the grinder. The males aren’t used for meat because different breeds are used for milk than for meat.
It’s a little better than that, males are kept pent in too small enclosures and fed only milk until they’re too fat to move, THEN they’re slaughtered, because veal is pretty fuckin tasty
Ah, the wonders oft childhood obesity
hardly an cattle become veal at all. like far less that 5%.

This is class A bullshit.

Milk is harvested for human consumption. What would be the point of dairy farms if you’re feeding the milk to the offspring?

Milk-fed veal is most definitely a thing. My uncle had a whole farm based on it when I was a kid.