CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by evolve2k on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:56PM (#19402986)

When I visited a friends dairy farm in New Zealand that was not my experience. In conventional farming the cows do live outdoors and are free to graze in large paddocks. Twice a day though the cows are full of milk and will be in pain if not milked. The cows are milked in the dairy twice a day and this is where this innovation applies. When out and about they go wherever, when in the dairy though the urine mixing with the poo seems to be an environmental problem.

A conventional dairy farm does not confine the animals it just collects their milk each day and the cows know the routine.

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Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by cdf2theworld on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:20PM (#19403229)

Ah but this is the seeing point of New Zealand: they have a low population of people, and a lot of open grazing land. Heck there are more sheep than people there! That is a no go in the US.

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Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by evolve2k on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:54PM (#19404674)

You raise an important point alot of our food issues come from abstraction and seeing the products not as having coming from a living thing but rather as a commodity.

We loose track of the implementation details of how the food is sourced.

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Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by cwkoss on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:00PM (#19403021)

I understand there are good reasons to put happy cows in confined spaces for limited periods of time. If this was just a collection apparatus, I wouldn't be so horrified. But electric stimulation of the nerve to induce urination seems messed up.

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Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by rebuilder on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:22PM (#19403247)

Is it electric stimulation? From the video it seems touch is sufficient.

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