• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    So drinking a real-world cow’s milk is ok, but drinking a Zootopia cow’s milk would not be ok because… the Zootopia cow is presumably a full member of society who earns a living by consensually being milked?

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      11 months ago

      It would be a little strange to eat ice cream from consensually milked women tbh

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        Why?

        If the women are fine with it, get a wage from it and can quit any time they choose to, where is the problem?

        And just to add to the pile: humans can lactate without the need for pregnancy - even males - and some women can develop a condition called hyperlactation where the body goes full throttle on producing milk, beyond any needs of an infant. And never stop, in very extreme cases.

        Sounds a good deal more sustainable and fair than cows milk and a heck lot more efficient than milking trees.

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          Maybe I’m being cynical but I think humans would find a way to exploit this market and make women suffer, just like we can do with cattle.

          Inject women with hormones to make them produce more milk is an example I can think of.

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            To my knowledge, the use of hormones in milk cattle is banned. And hormones in humans have severe life lasting side effects.

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              And hormones in humans have severe life lasting side effects.

              Not having hormones has pretty severe effects. Women who’ve gone through menopause (or had ovaries removed) and don’t produce hormones often get prescribed hormones to prevent things like osteoporosis. Men with low testosterone get prescribed it. Children who don’t produce hormones don’t go through puberty–in the past, they castrated boys with pretty voices so they’d never have their voice break, and that had severe health consequences on the boys turned into eunuchs.

              I’m saying all of this because when it comes to “hormones”, you kinda have to be specific. You can’t just throw it out there like, “oOooOO! Hormones! Scary!” Otherwise you get into a realm similar to how people hear “dihydrogen monoxide” and don’t make the connection between the “scary science word” and the fact that dihydrogen monoxide is water and is necessary for life.

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                Sometimes I really hate the english language…

                Back there, when I mention hormones, it is implied it is non necessary for the normal functioning of the organism.

                In my language, using the word “hormones” in a conversation immediatly carries the meaning it is something artificially added, like hormone therapy for menopausal women or hormone therapy for transgender individuals or even for people with thyroid problems.

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              At first glance, none.

              But then “willingness” and “money” rarely mix well. Yeah, there are humans “willing” to be paid for their plasma but it’s a marginalized part of the population trying to have just enough money to survive.

              I’m sorry. I’m trying not to ruin the meme any further.

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                  Donation is one thing completely different than selling their fluids. There’s no incentive to exploit people when there’s not a payback in cash.

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          Males do not lactate if human. Some others do. Humans males might suffer from Galactorrhea as well as some females.

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        11 months ago

        I once went to an ice cream fair where local women had collected their breast milk to make a breast milk ice cream. It was actually delicious

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        Strangely, there exist those who would find it to be the furthest thing from strange, jsyk

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        So a few years a go, an old friend i was visiting asked if i wanted cream in my coffee. She checked the upstairs fridge, then went downstairs and came back with glass of milk. Halfway through my coffee i started to wonder why she was hiding a grin. Yes, she had a three month old.

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          Not exactly lol I was thinking from a consensually milked livestock but it’s all a little weird sounding isn’t it? Lol

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        Human milk is only really strange to us because we normalized drinking cow milk. I see no reason why it’d be odd for zotopia animals to drink cow milk as well. If anything I’d imagine they’d consider the idea of adults drinking milk childish. Irl most adult animals are lactose intolerant so I’d imagine most likely the ice cream in the movie is just sherbet. Ice cream in this universe is probably a dessert for children.

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    11 months ago

    Humans. Every other evolutionary species was there only humans were missing. Why? We were being farmed.

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      There’s no reason to invent plant milk if you don’t already consume milk. It’s a product that was designed to emulate and replace something else that already exists.

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        Because nothing is ever being invented if not to replace something?

        That argument is just wrong. If it was true there’d be exactly one drink and one food. Because we’d only invent something new if it was to replace the existing thing.

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          Yes, this argument is wrong. Which is why i wasn’t making it.

          Plant milk, specifically, is something that you woudln’t think to invent unless you’re trying to replace cow milk.

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        It’s zootopia, most mammal drink milk, so maybe they grow up liking milk and found a way to make one using plant-based material because drinking your neighbours milk is just awkward.

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        No, they make imitation ice cream now - I’ve seen almond, oat, and coconut milk used. It’s more similar to real ice cream than sorbet is. There’s a noticeable difference but I actually like the imitation ice cream more because it doesn’t have the sour aftertaste I get from milk. The downside is that it’s more expensive; I’ve only ever seen it sold in the premium-priced one-pint containers.

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        It’s one of those things that gets weirder the longer you think about it. Pouring some cow milk from a carton I to your cereal? Totally not weird. Beef juice squeezed from some utter, along with puss and hormones, ultra heated and squirted through a fine mesh? Pretty weird.

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          Yeah but everything is weird when you deconstruct it that far like I’m using my electric meat to change some pixels of light that are then beamed around the world via electromagnetic radiation so that I can send my thoughts to your electric meat

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            Well yeah, that’s my point. It’s good to so that sometimes though, to deconstruct things like that. Telepathic electric meat is awesome, beef juice maybe less so (I still eat cheese, and drink milk occasionally, but it is weird.)

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    Almost any meat or dairy products they’d be eating would questionable in that movie. How are the carnivore animals surviving? Do they just eat tofu? Or is there some sort of population of slave animals that are kept un-evolved that are born & bred for meat/dairy products?

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      How are the carnivore animals surviving? Do they just eat tofu?

      This is exactly what the movie explains. There’s an underground black market dealing with kidnapping and illegal meat.

      Or am I confusing this with Beastars?

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      Extras for the movie explained that it is processed insect protein. The intelligent animals in their world are exclusively mammals. No insects or reptiles etc.

      The mammals part is in the early part with the play Judy is in.

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    Humans obviously. They just didn’t show the farms because they didn’t want to scare the children.

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    Probably the same as who gets milked in real life. Animals drink milk too I don’t understand why people are constantly thrown off by this, it’s just as normal if not more normal to drink milk in the animal kingdom.

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      Farming milk involves forcefully insemination cows to get pregnant so they produce milk in the first place. Often times in factory farming, their calves are taken away for “repurposing”. Combine that with the typical living conditions for the average milk cow and it wouldn’t be hard to imagine why people that have any idea of how the industry functions would be thrown off by this.

      Imagine human women being treated like this for the milk they produce so that you get to enjoy a cheap pleasure.

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        Tell me you know nothing about farming without actually saying it.

        Cows and other livestock are raised in farms to raise more cows anyway. Farmers don’t keep male cows around for fun, and cows aren’t pets. All non-breeding stock gets eaten.

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        We sell breast milk without forcefully inseminating women just fine, this leap of logic doesn’t make any sense. We treat cows as livestock because we view cows as animals not people, whether their treatment is cruel or not is a different irrelevant argument, but in Zootopia they’d just be seen as people and would have control over the supply so obviously cows wouldn’t be treated the same way in Zootopia as they are in real life. They’d only have to milk themselves and sell it just like when women sell breast milk in real life. If anything it’s even less weird and disturbing to think about than in real life.

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      It’s not the drinking milk thats weird. It’s the fact that they would have to be farming milk from intelligent animals to get it. Like if cows could talk and were as smart as humans I think people would find farming milk from them a little weird.

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        The milk drinking is just as weird, since no other animal continues drinking milk after passing their baby state. Only humans do that.

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          no other animal continues drinking milk after passing their baby state

          any predator will eat lactating mammaries. birds and reptiles are also known to drink mammalian milk.

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          no other animal continues drinking milk after passing their baby state

          This is not even close to true. Even adult cows will occasionally grab a sip from another cow or even themselves.

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        Humans sell their own breastmilk to other humans for human consumption all the time in real life, it is completely normal for humans to drink human milk as well as the milk or other animals. The only difference in Zootopia is that every animal would be providing their milk consensually and likely selling it themselves. There’s nothing weird about that.

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      So you don’t think it’s weird to have a farm of humans that have children every 9 months and get milked in mass production?

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    Can someone please explain to me what predators eat in Zootopia? Surely they can’t survive on plants alone.

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        Wasn’t there an alligator cop? And some kind of bird, as a mail carrier I think?

        …Nope, all mammals. I wonder if there’s a lore thing about only mammals being highly intelligent or if there are other places with other classes of animals?

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      You can make a movie about people without showing any animal but show the characters eating meat.

      So if in Zootopia they were eating Humans we wouldn’t see the human life stock farming. So we can’t assume they don’t eat humans.

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      Soy. The whole thing is a far right allegory for the effects of soy to reminisce society. A literal sheeple then tries to have them all muzzled when they just act according to their own natural state to get to taste real red meat. In the end the liberal vegetarians win, a dark ending for conservatives but not as dark as the abortion arc they had to cut out where the right wing fox deals with the liberal bunny killing his unborn.

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    Who’s to say cows can’t be milked in Zootopia?
    If you can earn money by donating blood and organs (i.e. part of a kidney or liver), guys can earn money donating sperm, women donating eggs, then why couldn’t a Zootopia cow (or other mammals for that matter) donate their milk?

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        You’re not wrong, maybe cows choose formula and sell their milk?
        Fuck knows ¯\(ツ)

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          maybe there’s a zootopia Nestlé that all the animals also fucking hate and want to go away because Nestlé is a cancer on this earth as well as anyone that works for them.

          fuck Nestlé

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            Seriously, Fuck Nestlé.

            Can’t get rid of them because they hide behind a litany of brands (and companies) in order to avoid their bad reputation, making it almost impossible for the average person to properly boycott them without knowing just how many brands (and companies) they own.

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        Cows produce excess milk, and many animals will continue to lactate if milked for an extended period even after giving birth and no longer being pregnant. If it makes them money then why not?