Ah I see. But the problem is these aren't humans, they're adorable anthropomorphic animals.
Would you still drink milk if cows were anthropomorphic?
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Actually, yeah, crowdfunding a 3 legged tortoise to get a wheel usually goes better than funding a wheelchair for a human.
Hmmm...have to think about that.
Public won't get much choice, cows are the farmer's property and no farmer is going to keep an economic drain lying around in any number. Maybe some might get adopted by animal welfare people, zoos and other ummm ..."interested parties", but otherwise there's going to be a lot of very cheap beef on the market for a little while.
Oh...gah.
PETA would be so annoying about this.
OTOH, if you skinned one properly, you could get a one piece person sized leather outfit pretty easily.
PETA would be so annoying about this.
OTOH, if you skinned one properly, you could get a one piece person sized leather outfit pretty easily.
this is just an elaborate vibe check to see if there's a safe enough percentage of like-minded members to come out about a fetish or two, ain't it? 
no need to worry, fam, no judgement here. plus anyone only needs 5% tops as long as they vocal. some unscrupulous ppl even ride comfortabltly under 1% with focused astroturfing from a couple of puppet accounts - not something I'd recommend, but is an option
no need to worry, fam, no judgement here. plus anyone only needs 5% tops as long as they vocal. some unscrupulous ppl even ride comfortabltly under 1% with focused astroturfing from a couple of puppet accounts - not something I'd recommend, but is an option
Do you think people would eat the beef? I couldn't even get a yes or no answer as to whether people would drink the milk, I can't imagine most people would eat meat from an animal that looks like that. God, could you imagine the trauma people who work in slaughter houses would get?
I'm imagining that and it's just horrific in every way.
Oh, are they human sized? The total mass of cattle would got down a lot, and cattle are a big greenhouse gas producer.
If everyone went off red meat, and moved to white (fish and poultry, not people, I mean), that'd help the environment a lot.
If everyone went off red meat, and moved to white (fish and poultry, not people, I mean), that'd help the environment a lot.
I don't think it would necessarily carry on as an industry, but it's not going to waste.
I suppose they'd be, like, big people, but yeah probably a bit less weight than a standard cow.
I've never really understood how cows produce greenhouse gasses. Like they eat a ton of grass and stuff, but shouldn't that have a net neutral effect when the grass regrows later? Unless you are referring to deforestation for grazing land or something like that.
Methane is a relatively short acting but very potent greenhouse gas, it's not so much about carbon storage in this case.
Apparently they produce lots of methane...as ZykonTheLich just said.
As an aside, grasslands absorb less sunlight than forest do. Not to say deforestataion isn't bad, but that it complicates things.
Get get off the internet, and touch some grass. On second thought....
Cows, like pretty much all mammals, only give milk if they recently gave birth. And this is what would basically kill the milk industry in this scenario.
Man, you people are just so hostile to hypothetical situations. I swear the Escapist used to be more fun than this... Actually, no, it wasn't.
Yeah, this is the conclusion I reach earlier in the thread.
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It's the same stuff and so long as the cows are treated well and compensated, whatever.
It's the same stuff and so long as the cows are treated well and compensated, whatever.
Aaaand you've one-upped us all in making the thread weirder, with one crash sentence.