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How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

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225 points DonHopkins | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 22:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source
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decimalenough ◴[16 Apr 25 00:36 UTC] No.43700087[source]▶
Serious question: why would a dairy care about the cow's quality of life? The setup in the video looks far more expensive than what most dairies actually do, which is keeping cows tightly confined in stalls where they can't move at all.
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1. protocolture ◴[16 Apr 25 03:50 UTC] No.43701250[source]▶
>Serious question: why would a dairy care about the cow's quality of life?

Honestly a dairy I visited only had stalls for milking time. Their issue was that the cows wouldnt eat the shit they fed them. But they had a lot of room to run around in while being malnourished.

They went bankrupt a few years later, mainly because malnourished cows dont tend to provide milk.