The better question is: How does someone “forcibly impregnate” a cow?
Let’s completely forget just how much bigger and stronger cows are compared to us.
I don’t know about you, but it’s a question that always comes to mind whenever ARAs (animal rights activists, or activists for short) tell everyone about how dairy cows are treated on dairy farms, usually in a one-sentence bumper-sticker slogan.
It’s one thing to talk about sexual abuse in assuming cows have the right to bodily autonomy and the right to consent. But it’s quite another to discuss how the act of impregnating a cow is allegedly “forcible” according to certain animal rights organizations.
Like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which seems to have all the answers:
When a human is forcibly and involuntarily violated sexually, it’s called “rape.” When animals on factory farms are forcibly and involuntary violated sexually, it’s called “artificial insemination.”
[…] To impregnate a cow, a person jams his or her arm far into the cow’s rectum in order to locate and position the uterus and then forces an instrument into her vagina. The cow is defenseless [sic] to stop this violation.
– From PETA: “Is Your Food a Product of Rape?“
We’ll discuss the rather dumb allegations of “raping cows” in a separate post and how artificial insemination (AI) is anything but sexual. Only perverts of PETA would eroticize and adulterate a veterinary medical procedure involving bovine reproductive anatomy.
I digress.
I want you to note the wording used to describe how cows are “forcibly” impregnated:
- *JAMS* his or her arm
- *FORCES* an instrument
- *DEFENSELESS [sic]* to stop
The wording strongly implies that AI is rough and malicious to cows. The last part seems more of a supporting argument based on speculation to prop up the argument that AI is animal cruelty.
It also implies that AI is done any time the farmer chooses, with no consideration given to the estrous cycle whatsoever.
Too bad, for PETA at least, that all such implications are absolute bullshit. This includes the part about “to locate and position the uterus.”
The truth is that you cannot forcibly impregnate a cow. It’s simply not possible.
Cows are much bigger, stronger, and faster than us humans. This should question the validity of the claims of how “defenceless” they are. Special, heavy-duty equipment is needed to restrain these animals when veterinary medical procedures are required. This is for the safety of the animals and the people handling them.
They are not friendly “grass-puppies” people. They can hurt and kill, even when they don’t mean to. (Even dogs and cats can be dangerous to work with when veterinary medical procedures must be done to them that they aren’t in favour of. They, neither, are defenceless.)
I’ll discuss these more in future posts.
Besides all that, there are two other reasons that cows cannot be forcibly impregnated:
- There’s this thing called “estrus” or heat, creating hormonal changes in a cow
- It’s dangerous and stupid to be rough with the cow when artificially inseminating her.
Understandably, most people are unfamiliar with the concept of estrus. Estrus is a scientific term referring to the state of the female hormone estrogen, which is at an all-time high. When this happens, it directs a female’s behaviour to attract and seek a mate. Her energy and concentration are on finding that mate to breed with.
The layman’s synonym for it is being “in heat.” Other animals that experience estrus include dogs, cats, horses, goats, sheep, and many others. Human females don’t experience the same type of estrus as these other animals, so there’s no comparison between humans and cows.
Estrus is the only time in a cow’s reproductive cycle where she is fertile enough to get pregnant. No other time can she conceive.
Estrus is a brief moment in the estrous cycle. (Again, this is named after how estrogen peaks and valleys throughout a cow’s reproductive cycle). The estrous cycle lasts around 21 days. The estrus period lasts only around 24 hours.
Therefore, only a 24-hour window exists when a cow is fertile and can conceive. For the other 20 days, the cow is infertile and uninterested in getting bred.
When she is in estrus, the timing for AI (artificial insemination) to be successful is critical.
How AI is done is also important.
When the technician does it, they need to put one arm into the rectum of the cow so that they can find and position the cervix (not the uterus, as PETA dumbly mentions) so that the tip of the AI gun can gently slide through this tough, cylindrical organ so that the tip of the gun enters the uterus.
There is NO “fisting” done here. Any activist who tells you otherwise has no clue what they’re talking about.
The wall of the vagina, from the vulva to the cervix, is much more delicate than the steel AI gun. Any JABBING or FORCING or any similar adjectives will PERMANENTLY DAMAGE the vaginal (or uterine) wall! It’s the same if this tool is RAMMED into the uterus or through the cervix. The uterine lining is very delicate compared to a thin steel rod. The cervix may seem tough and rubbery, but it still isn’t composed of dense, hard material like steel, which certainly is, and won’t hold up to any rough handling.
And yes, the cow will feel it. It will hurt her. And she won’t like it.
You know what will happen? The cow will probably get an infection, the hole[s] will tear, and the breeding ability of that cow will be severely compromised.
This means that a perfectly healthy, productive cow that was roughly handled and abused and poked full of holes in her internal organs by an unskilled, untrained, animal-activist-undercover-turned-AI-tech (sorry, I’m just pontificating here because I can’t believe I have to explain this sort of basic knowledge, and it frustrates the hell out of me) who didn’t know what the f**k they were doing has to be sent to slaughter. And what if she wasn’t the only cow that got so badly damaged by that same tech?
If I were a farmer who had that happen to any of my cows, I’d be livid. Worse, I’d feel utterly betrayed in finding out that they weren’t even a registered tech but rather a sick, mentally ill vegan activist trying to make an animal snuff gore porn flick for PETA or a similar organization by deliberately abusing my cows. I’d probably be filing charges and other legal stuff with the police and my lawyer… since modern law has made vigilante justice reminiscent of the Old West illegal.
I’m sure any farmer in the same boat would feel and act the same.
This is the reason why AI isn’t rough or forced. It’s gentle, deliberate, and careful. AI technicians are trained to care for the cows they service because that’s their paycheck. If they f*ck up, that’s on them; their reputation hangs on their success and ability to do their job. If they can’t do their job, they don’t get paid, nor will they get hired.
Farmers place a lot of trust in those techs!
Also, they don’t go around jamming and ramming and forcing hard, steel instruments into cows because it gives them and the farmer sexual gratification. No amount of human genitalia is even involved in this practice of breeding cows. Who would even think of such disgusting nonsense??
Oh, that’s right. The only people seeking sexual gratification from such a falsely imagined borderline zoophilia fetish are the sick-minded activists (including members of PETA) with a secret zoophilia bestiality fetish involving cows and their genitalia. Be honest.
Anyone who continues to promote the narrative that “it’s the farmers who have this mindset” is a deflecting, bare-faced liar.
Thus, the fact that cows are “forcibly impregnated” is a complete and total lie.
I haven’t even gone into further detail about how AI is carried out beyond just a brief overview. I didn’t even go into the “deep science” of the estrous cycle of the bovine female. Nor have I touched on the ethics, practices, and standards of handling animals for veterinary medical procedures. Nor have I talked about a fully grown cow’s sheer size and strength compared to a fully grown human.
ALL of these point to how forcible impregnation is impossible and, quite frankly, foolish to even think about. It’s about as stupid as saying rape racks is a term farmers use to describe a type of breeding equipment for livestock or that all calves are killed at birth, or that all cows are killed to make milk, or (and this is always comedy gold) milk is full of puss and blood so it’s bleached to make it look white. I could go on.
I’ve got more posts coming on that. I’ve compiled a big list HERE THAT YOU CAN CHECK OUT. (If you have any more suggestions, let me know in the comments.)
Anything I didn’t cover? Anything you’d like to say? Comment below and let me know!
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