Quote from: Atlas on October 18, 2011, 07:29:41 PM

Quote from: RandyFolds on October 18, 2011, 07:28:27 PM

Quote from: Atlas on October 18, 2011, 07:22:17 PM

When farmers want cattle to produce the best milk they don't confine them to the same utilitarian and crowded feedhouses we see with typical livestock.

Originally farmers would make sure they had sufficient shade, plenty of water and pasture to graze in. However, as the demand for efficiency came, more dairy cows had to be raised. Acres upon acres of shaded pasture no longer sufficed. Today you will see giant diary cows entranced in a giant moving carousel by which they feed, soothing them and relaxing them as they are voluntarily milked. Yes, I said voluntarily. Instead of the farmer routinely milking the cows, they now milk themselves as they please using automated machinery with act rewarded with food. This relaxes them and gives them the illusion of freedom and thus they produce more and better milk.

This analogy almost perfectly applies to people. As chattel slaves we are unskilled and produce very little value. As purportedly free and taxed citizens, we can learn various skills and produce valuable labor and goods.

Thus unfortunately, if there will ever be comprehensive, omnipotent tyranny, it will be one of bliss and ecstasy. Very few will resist. Power is only as good as its output and happy citizens are the most effective citizens.

I grew up in the midwest, surrounded by cattle farms and working on my cousins dairy farm every summer. I have never seen such a carousel, and I have sure as hell not seen a cow 'voluntarily' milk itself.

Maybe it exists, but it's probably in the UAEE or something.

It's a recent innovation. It's only a profitable investment for massive dairy farms at the moment, if I recall correctly.

I also regularly drive past one of the largest concentrations of meat and dairy cattle in the US, stinking it up along the I5 in California's central valley. No carousels.

Your analogy is incredibly flawed. Cows need to be milked or they will suffer horrible and painful health consequences. They aren't being 'enslaved', carousel or no, they are being maintained, as they are now domesticated animals. I want some numbers and links to this 'technology'.

If you spent any amount of time with bovine, you would know that they are about the most retarded animal you can find. They have no concept of 'control' or 'happiness'. Hell, fish learn faster than cattle...