🐂⚡😲 FATHERHOOD = HORROR
Male Reproductive Exploitation in Animal Industries
🐂⚡😲 FATHERHOOD = HORROR: Male Reproductive Exploitation in Animal Industries
Knowledge For Activists: TEASER BULLS, ELECTRO-EJACULATION, ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
Details of genital mutilation & reproductive exploitation
Farmed animals are selectively bred
Not naturally conceived
Farmers artificially inseminate females when they are most fertile (i.e. in estrus; in heat)
Farmers get the semen from in-tact males (aka bulls) with desirable (i.e. profitable) traits
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Semen Extraction - Common methods:
Electro-Ejaculation
Artificial Vaginas
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ELECTRO-EJACULATION
Electrically inducing ejaculation via a rectile probe
ARTIFICIAL VAGINAS
Masturbating a male to ejaculation and collecting sperm in an artificial vagina
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Detecting Fertility: Teaser bulls
To maximize profits, farmers want to know when a female is most fertile
(i.e. in estrus; in heat).
Teaser bulls are a popular fertility detection mechanism.
These are males whose penis & reproductive system have been mutilated so they will still get erections & attempt to mate, but cannot deposit semen in the female’s vagina.
The teaser bull smudges a strip of paint placed on the female’s rear-end to indicate that he mounted her.
Alternatively, the teaser bull is fitted with a paint-marking chin ball strap to mark the female’s rear-end while mounting her.
Or, RFID tags and algorithms determine that he mounted her and notify the farmer via a mobile app.
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Further reading:
Bernard Rollin (1943 - 2021) was an American philosopher, who was emeritus professor of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University.
Rollin specialized in animal rights and the philosophy of consciousness, and was the author of a number of influential books in the field.
I first learned about teaser bulls and other details about the lives and exploitations of farmed animals from Bernard Rollin’s books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Rollin
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