• olicvb@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    In Beastars, animals like cows and chickens get paid for offloading their milk and eggs. There’s a whole side story about this chicken being very proud of her eggs and taking care of her body to produce the best quality product.

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      3 hours ago

      I was confused about that in Beastars. Like, don’t their newborns need the milk?

      Maybe you could explain it that they all had miscarriages, but oof. Dark.

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        2 hours ago

        oh you’re right, forgot cows don’t produce milk when they didn’t just give birth. To be honest I just assumed cows gave milk since chickens are shown giving eggs, but there’s no mention about cows afai-remember.

        OK looked it up so there is an instance where you see a cow milk factory. They push them drugs to increase their production (not a legal business kinda slavery-ish). It’s possible some others rely on recently pregnant cows to donate some extra milk, or maybe it’s more common to go with soy, almond, oat, etc.