Everything I hear how cow farmers need to take care of their stock baffles me more and more how these were able to survive for so long
A cow needs to be milked every certain period to avoid infections, bruising, death
A cow needs help with the birth of a calf, as its sometimes a process which cant be done by a cow itself
A cow builds up gasses in their stomachs, requiring punctures to avoid sickness, death
And not to mention the parasites, specific diets, and maybe some other things I wouldn’t know about
In: Biology
The thing is, in the wild when an animal gets an infection, or complications during birth, they just die. That’s part of how nature works. The weak and the sick animals die so that the stronger ones live on and reproduce. That’s natural selection.
Some of these issues do come from human intervention, like the gas build up is in part caused by the fact that cattle largely has a diet that just, produces more gas than the diet wild cattle would’ve had. But many of the things domesticated animals have humans deal with, are just things that kill wild animals.
Animal sanctuaries will talk about how “oh a dairy cow gets sent off to slaughter after five years, but with us, she can live to like fifteen years.” Which is true. But the reason that works is because those sanctuaries put in a lot of work to keep that animal alive. In the wild a cow also wouldn’t have loved to 15. As she’d get older, her body would start to give out and she’d end up either felled by disease or by a predator.
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