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An Alberta farmer recently lost $175,000 worth of purebred cows, calves and bulls

(Terry Reith / CBC News)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm kind of against putting tracking chips in anything I might eat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless they're cheese flavored chips..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, don't go giving Big Brother any good ideas now (especially ones that would work on me)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not like you're going to eat all portions of the cow. Require that any chips be parked in the ear or something, where they won't become a burger additive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then the thieves are just going to cut off all the cows' ears!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In which case, earless cows can just be presumed stolen wherever found, and confiscated. (Yeah, I know: "What if someone has a legit earless cow?" Then it should have a legit record at the vet's office explaining why it doesn't have an ear. And more than one or two of those on a given farm is pretty damned suspicious, barring an infestation of Martian Cow-Ear-Eating Bugs.)

Or we could just tattoo them on something that's not likely to get cut off without killing the cow. (They used to brand them for just this purpose, but that's cruel.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At that point why not just embed the gps tags in the ear tags that we already put on cows? Or why can't we just spray paint their butts like sheep? (Which I'm saying as a person that really knows nothing about this but if it works for the sheep...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mmm hot dogs. Pink ooze mmm.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'm against eating things that have the capacity to love me.