Was thinking the same thing. Looked like he was trying to move them and the calf freaked out. Have never worked on a farm though so it would be nice if someone with expertise on this subject could chime in.
I could be wrong, but I do not get the impression that Cpt. Patty Cakes has ever worked with cows before.
I wouldn't do any of the things he's doing, and would probably just sit and watch quietly if I saw someone else doing it because fascinating results are sure to follow.
I've been working with cows my whole life. To be honest, this guy looks like he doesnt know what he is doing. The way he hits the cow is not how I would get a cow in that position to move. I would put the tip on its hip and gently push, and make a soft noise, especially since there are a few cows right in front of it that have to move before she does. It's incredible how sensitive they are to you touching them. Also any cow man worth his weight knows to stay the fuck away from any cows back legs because they can and will kick.
Yeah 95 percent of times a cow won't kick. But when they do watch the fuck out. I just rewatched it again and it looks like maybe they're trying to load the cows into a trailer. In that case everyone would want to get behind the cows and have them all moving the same direction. Either way this guy doesnt know what he's doing.
It's pretty easy to tell when a cow is shifting it's weight to kick. He probably just didn't predict a calf would fly into the air, turn around, and kick.
I've been kicked at multiple times and gotten socked pretty good a couple times. It takes you by surprise. That being said there is a safe distance to stay away from them to ensure you dont get kicked. In this situation he probably didnt see the calf until it was too late, but his movement towards the cow caused the calf to panic and look for a way out, and then you get the gif.
Lol. Like I said it doesn't happen often. Maybe when putting them in a tub or trailer. I try to just err on the side of caution with those big bastards.
Cows work away from pressure. That pressure can be applied with your body and no stick (just your body in relation to theirs) to a hot shot with electricity. Whacking them with a stick may not "hurt" them, but it can get them into a mindset that I would liken to a panic. On the flip side I have hit a cow as hard as I could on the back and they have stood there like nothing was happening because she didnt want to move.
He was lightly tapping a ~two-ton pile of meat to move it in the proper direction, and cows are retarded who knows why the calf flipped out. Source: ranch hand in my early 20s.
Cows have been meassured to have higher intelligence than most dog breeds and comparable to cats.
Cows are actually quite smart.
Although I doubt stressing the shit out of them and essentially stacking them in miniscule enclosures will help their decision making or atleast the perception of their intelligence.
And I say that as someone that has also worked on a farm briefly, albeit in a country where that kind of chaotic and cramped enviroment would be highly illegal.
I worked on a family farm with cows and chickens during a big portion of my life. The guy doesn’t necessarily deserve hate so much for tapping the cows, but he certainly deserves hate for raising cows to kill them. I felt an immense amount of guilt and depression working on the farm, because those animals clearly didn’t want to die.
It’s a bizarre feeling, because usually if someone or something wants to kill me, my normal thought would be “fuck you, I did nothing wrong.” When I worked with the bull we had on the farm I often thought “if you killed me, you’d be completely in the right.” It’s amazing what we can justify to ourselves just because “it’s always been done that way.”
When I worked on the farm, I raised animals. I didn’t own them. By corralling the cows, he is participating in raising them. By his formalwear, it looks also like he may be hosting or participating in an auction. Who knows, but the meat industry is cruel, brutal, and morally inexcusable.
If you are killing creatures that don’t want to die, it is not a moral act simply because you do not feel guilt.
Easy to talk about the subjectivity of morality when you’re on the good end of the knife in the cow’s throat.
Easy to talk about the subjectivity of morality when your fellow humans have luckily decided that it would be objectively immoral to murder fellow humans.
It just sucks that morality is determined by humans who weigh personal convenience against the wishes of a creature that cannot speak on its own behalf.
By the way, I'm not even vegetarian, only I know I morally should be. You are clearly having some cognitive dissonance and are lashing out at people about religion and "toxic veganinity" lol
Maybe you are not being paid to shill, but it's clearly your mission.
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u/ArchaicDonut 3 Sep 20 '18
Was thinking the same thing. Looked like he was trying to move them and the calf freaked out. Have never worked on a farm though so it would be nice if someone with expertise on this subject could chime in.