• over_clox
    -4•9 days ago

    Cows don’t disappear when there’s less demand. Cows disappear when people eat them, if they’d just regulate the breeding side of the cattle industry.

    • grueEnglish
      3•9 days ago

      They breed fewer of them when there’s less demand.

      • over_clox
        -1•9 days ago9 days ago

        Let’s do some math here…

        100 / 365 ≈ €0.274 per day.

        You really think that’ll put much of a dent in a farmer’s wallet?

        Let’s do some more math. Let’s say they raise the price of a gallon of milk by €0.10. Nobody will bat an eye, they’ll just chalk it up to general inflation.

        A good healthy dairy cow produces ~ 9 gallons of milk per day.

        So, €0.10 * 9 = €0.90 per day extra, per dairy cow. That would actually yield the farmer an actual net gain of ~ €0.626 per day, per cow, subtracting the daily tax.

        That would actually end up with the farmer gaining ~ €228.50 per year per cow, after the tax.

        Ain’t nobody gonna bat an eye if they raise the cost of milk by €0.10 per gallon. Nothing will change, except the farmers will jack the prices around just enough that nobody cares and they actually profit from it.

        • grueEnglish
          3•9 days ago9 days ago

          Oh, so you’re saying the tax is a good start but should be a lot higher? Fair enough then, I agree!

          • over_clox
            0•9 days ago9 days ago

            Sure, let’s work on it.

            Believe it or not, I haven’t had any milk in years. I’ve probably had a few burgers and meatballs with spaghetti a few times over the years, but those meals have been few and far between.

            Cattle products aren’t that important to me, I can do without. So yeah, fuckit, double the prices, might actually make people think twice…

            Edit: I occasionally do eat pizza, so maybe a little more milk product in my diet, but even that isn’t often. Fuckit, I can give it up almost no problem, I’d just be sad to give up pizza…