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Robots Milking Cows
axlrosen writes "The Globe has an article about robotic cow-milking machines. The cows are trained to walk up to the machine, and then "a laser locates the cow's nipples, which are cleaned by rollers coated with disinfectant before being milked by long, white suction tubes on the unit's milking claw. Vacuum-activated rubber rings at the end of each tube massage the nipple, prompting the cow to release its milk.""
Every time some motherfucking 'farm innovation' comes along, some shit for brains motherfucker rants about how great said fucking invention is and how said fucking invention will somehow make it possible for the frothing legions of motherless fucks who make a living by farming to be more and more profitable.
That, my dear asshole reader, is a steamy crock of piss.
Here's what shit like this does, whether or not this is some fucking joke: it makes milk cheaper. Simple fucking econ, and I'm not fucking econ major. If some cocksucker can get more fucking milk from his fat fuck cows, he can sell more fucking milk to a market already soaked in the shit. Result: lower milk prices. Yea for consumer, pisser for farmer. In the end, farmer is fucked, he paid $640,000 for robotic milkers or whatever the fuck it happens to be, and now his shit is worth slightly less than a bucket of vomit.
The only motherfuckers who benefit from this type of bullshit are monstrous motherfucking corporations who can make money even by selling their shit at a 1% margin.
End of fucking story.
I know other posters have made this point already, but they haven't given it the throrough fucking airing it deserves. The price of milk does not go down. The price of milk *never* goes down, thanks to some fucking communist 1930's-era price supports that have long outlived whatever dumbass bullshit purpose they ever had. Go ask Jim Jeffords about his fucking dairy compact. People have been fucking *prosecuted* for selling milk for less than the government mandated bullshit price. I wish I still had the fucking link for that story but suffice it to say, if you think you can just squeeze some cow's tit in a bucket and sell it for whatever you want, then you my friend are sorely fucking mistaken.
Ever hear of government dick cheese? Ever wonder where government dick cheese comes from? You probably thought it was just another stupid ass bleeding heart liberal handout for old hags and smelly winos. Shows how much your dumb ass knows. Government dick cheese is what the fuckhead politicians came up with to dispose of all the excess bovine nipple discharge that farmers eagerly produce but no one wants to buy at rigoddamndiculously inflated government prices. So the government buys, with money stolen from you and me, fucking *cheese* in order to prop up demand for the fetid white cow juice that couldn't be sold. The cheese is allowed to fester in a warehouse until it gets nice and green and then it is passed out to the fucking winos to enjoy with their Mad Dog so they can continue their parasitic lifestyle. Any article about how milk is being produced more efficiently should be subtitled "Consumers, taxpayers to be assraped even more. Archer Daniel Motherfucker stock soars."
Now that, gentle reader, is the fucking end of story.