Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?

[perogiboi@lemmy.ca]

My wife’s cousins dairy farm has one of these robots. It’s like a big roomba that dispenses hay. The cows love that machine lol. He also has an automated cow hugger and cows like up to get squeezed by this machine. It’s pretty cool.

[empricorn@feddit.nl]

That's not it's job. It's supposed to grab you. And hug you. Like a cow...

[Guest]

Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn't read the article.

[empricorn@feddit.nl]

Okay, I joked in another comment, but I have to know more about this cow-hugging machine!

[zoldyck@lemmy.world]

No. Go vegan if you actually care about animals

[Guest]

For real, this has nothing to do with animal welfare. The cows still get forcefully impregnated every so often and have their calves taken away, just so you can drink their milk.
Supermarkets are full of tasty plant milk variants, yet most people still see the need to let cows suffer instead.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

There's a phone near me and they have two rotating brushes. They look like the things that wash your car in a drive in car wash, except with bristles rather than floppy mops.

[lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de]

Oat is GOAT

(The acronym, not the animal)

[magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.

I don't want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.

[drunkenpirate@feddit.org]

There have been robots for cows for years. It‘s the SHIT PUSHER ROBOT. It‘s pushing away the straw and shit all the day. That’s useful automation imho.

[Guest]

No. Not raping and abusing them for selfish human wants makes cows happier. This is the stupidest shit ever.

[blugill@fedia.io]

Cows are big and will accidentally kick you breaking ribs, or otherwise injure you. They are mostly safe, but there is a reason farming is one of the most dangerous jobs.

[magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Oof owchie my ribs

[technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Imagine believing that carnists profiting from torture and murder give a shit about happier cows.

[technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Sounds like paradise!!! \s \s \s jfc.

[perogiboi@lemmy.ca]

You’re right. It’s horrible and evil and I should disavow both my wife and her cousin for participating in such a thing and burn the entire thing down and free the cows.

[nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

no one is raping cows

[Guest]

Someone doesn't know how dairy farms work...

[pebbles@sh.itjust.works]

You think they just let the cows bone who they want?? Gotta keep the genes tight my homie. So sex with a lot of human intervention and no regard for how they cows feels. Pretend its humans and it would be kinda hard to call it something else, but I bet some folks could wiggle it down to just grooming or something.

[x00z@lemmy.world]

Awesome. Please do that.

No need to live between selfish people.