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Unless they use sexed semen (more expensive, but means they at least aren't producing male calves and then sending them off to be killed).


Cows produce more calves than are needed for dairy business.


With rape racks.

https://theirturn.net/2016/06/15/2016061420160613the-rape-ra...

(It’s not a cow running towards a yodeling Swiss milkmaid)

[..] The “rape rack” is a narrow, chute-like device in which female cows are restrained while they undergo a process the dairy industry euphemistically refers to as “artificial insemination.” During artificial insemination (AI), a dairy worker inserts one of his arms into the rectum of a restrained cow and, with his other arm, inserts a rod-like device called an Al gun into her vagina. The Al gun, which contains bull semen, is pushed in further until it reaches the cervix (the entrance to the uterus). The semen is then injected into the uterus.[..]




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