Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g...
by pstew on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:02PM
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No, to produce milk a cow needs to be pregnant or recently pregnant so milk production requires forced insemination and giving birth to the calf. After birth, the calf is separated from the mother to be caged for veal, raised as a milking cow, etc., and the mother is re-inseminated so she can keep producing milk and the process starts over.
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Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g...
by jcampbell1 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:12PM
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The process you describe is true for organic milk, but less true for regular milk. Modern dairy farms use sex selected semen to prevent males from being born and they use synthetic hormones to extend milk production. Not much excess calving happens in big dairy.
Re:Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as g...
by ThrowawayIP on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:32PM
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I'd like to see the citation for that and an example of its application outside of a laboratory setting (if there is one.)