• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Not like they are hand milking; it is just guiding the cow into a stall, cleaning the udders, and putting the machine on the teets.

    They do have automatic milkers that allow to cows to milk when they want to milk without a human being involved… But I guess an exploited lower class is more profitable.

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      10 hours ago

      My dad had that in freaking 80’s. I saw in action it was cool as shit for a 9 years old. We didn’t even have to guide them in our nothing. Apparently once you had them trained enough they milk themselves on regular all by themselves.

      The only thing a person had to do was clean up the shit and piss. I still remember having that job at 11. It sucked, but it has to be done. Probably what that farmer really bitching about.

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        7 hours ago

        It is hard to tell with the footage from the two news articles he was in(his farm or stock footage?), but it seems that he has the manual milkers.

        He has been profiting off gov subsidies(probably) and illegal labor and hasn’t been investing into automation, if that is the case.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s probably what this dude is talking about. Somehow doing that at 4 am because they still need to do some things manual.