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"Bovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator"

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The Bovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator is a unique learning aid that teaches correct cervix manipulation, AI gun positioning and pregnancy palpation. It allows students to see inside the reproductive tract to identify reproductive system landmarks. Students will also learn correct techniques for inserting and delivering semen. The simulator also aids in teaching how to palpate the uterus to identify stages of corpus luteum development and pregnancy. This life-sized model fits on a tabletop and collapses for easy storage.
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realityworks.com/product/bovin

For the... you know who you are:

Just because it's a job it doesn't mean that you should do it or that it's ethical. "Jobs tho" can excuse literally anything if you use it as a standard.

RealityworksBovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulatorThe Bovine Breeder™ artificial insemination simulator teaches correct cervix manipulation, AI gun positioning and pregnancy palpation.

On a related note:

"Bird Flu Detected in Tissue Samples of US Dairy Cow Sent to Slaughter, USDA Says"

CW: photo of packaged animal meat:

usnews.com/news/us/articles/20

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(Reuters) -Bird flu virus particles were found in tissue samples taken from one dairy cow sent to slaughter at a U.S. meat processing plant, but none were detected in samples from 95 other cattle, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Friday.

Meat from the animals was prevented from entering the nation's food supply, USDA said.

Agriculture and health officials have scaled up testing of meat and dairy products and livestock, as an outbreak of bird flu has expanded in dairy cattle.
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They're pretending that they can test for it. Remember, the USDA is not "health" agency, they're more like Big Ag's agency. Their concern would be with "product quality", not with public health.

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Older dairy cows are often processed for hamburger meat. USDA's testing results come at the start of peak U.S. grilling season around the U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
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At least they said it. A lot of people don't seem to know that the Dairy Industry is the Meat Industry.

So... keep on eye on those raw meat carnivore influencers.

Image: an example of cow lifecycle in farms from a research paper on something else.

"New tests confirm milk from flu-infected cows can make other animals sick — and raise questions about flash pasteurization" edition.cnn.com/2024/05/24/hea

More research:

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First, they confirmed the raw milk was chock-full of H5N1 virus. Then, they stored some of the raw milk at refrigerator temperature to see if levels of the virus in milk would drop off over time. Over 5 weeks, viral levels in raw milk dropped a bit, but not much.
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This should also imply that the virus gets into fermented raw milk products. And if you look for "raw milk ice cream", you'll see that there are sellers and there is a market. I find the issue of ice cream more interesting because it can be stored for a long time, which means outbreaks *later*.

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Heating the milk to 72 degrees Celsius, or 181 degrees Fahrenheit, for 15 or 20 seconds — conditions that approximated flash pasteurization — greatly reduced levels of the virus in the milk, but it didn’t inactivate it completely.
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This is flash pasteurization, meaning that the heat is applied for a shorter duration, but at a higher temperature. And this is the most common method; I've seen it in action and it's usually some nice machine that efficiently does this, which means that it's cheaper than the "vat pasteurization". Speaking of vat, I'm not sure how many people still do this since the rise of "cartons", but I grew up with raw milk plastic bags and boiling the milk; unfortunately, I wasn't raised vegan. Anyway, I distinctly remember the challenges of boiling cow milk, so I wonder how many of the raw milk buyers are doing their own pasteurization (boiling = vat pasteurization at high temperature).

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“But, we emphasize that the conditions used in our laboratory study are not identical to the large-scale industrial treatment of raw milk,” senior study author Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist who specializes in the study of flu and Ebola, said in an email.
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It's true that further processing, which is done in these milk factories, can change the results. They mention the importance of homogenization, but there's also dilution as cow milk is pooled from many sources, so if just a small % of that is infectious, then the dilution will reduce the viral load per unit of fluid, making pasteurization more likely to succeed. I'm not sure about the homogenization and emulsification help in this sense:

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a process that emulsifies the fat globules in milk so the cream won’t separate.
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I'm not sure about this one. I've seen this in research on tuberculosis bacteria in milk, but not for viruses. Just like with SARS-CoV-2, there is a question of the non-linear effects of viral load (more viral particles, exponentially worse outcomes). They can't really answer. And, who knows, maybe homogenization will make it easier to cow milk to be accidentally aerosolized and/or inhaled.

I wouldn't *expect CNN to go for the pessimistic reporting...

So, yeah. The raw cow milk drinkers are working stochastically to bring about a new pandemic. And probably new waves of as a bonus tuberculosis. Did you know about drug resistant tuberculosis? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidru

"How human and ecosystem health are intertwined: Evidence from vulture population collapse in India"

voxdev.org/topic/energy-enviro

Basically, vultures were very important in certain areas to remove cadavers from the area - such as countless cows raised by *lacto-vegetarians*. ...

An anti-inflammatory medicine was introduced about 3 decades ago to help treat cows (probably helps with milk production).

The substance stuck around in cows who died and were dumped "outside" or "elsewhere", as trash is often dumped.

Vultures ate dead "tainted" cows and also died.

As vultures died, other carrion eating animals came by and feasted, but they were not as nice as the vultures for the ecosystem and for the humans in the area.

Note that vultures often die because of eating poisoned animals, poisoned by humans. Lead, for example, is a common deadly poison left behind by bullets from hunters. Many animals deemed "pests" are poisoned and end up being eaten by a vulture who dies later. That's aside from the various poachers just outright killing vultures.