Stoner Cows

[Caduceus Mercurius]

No More Pot for Swiss Dairy Cows

March 2007 - The party's over for Switzerland's stoner cows. The alpine nation's Ministry of Agriculture has called on farmers to stop feeding their bovines cannabis or face prosecution! Although the practice was officially outlawed in 2005 after trace quantities turned up in dairy products, farmers continued to use weed fodder since it is both cheap and easy to grow.

This ramped-up war on livestock drug use comes in the wake of a much publicized ad campaign promoting the benefits of feeding animals pot. Some farmers believe that the active ingredient THC makes cows happy and, as a result, causes them to produce more milk. But government officials are claiming that stoned cows produce weed-laced milk, which poses a health threat to consumers. Before you buy out all the Jarlsberg though, be aware that they did not go so far as to say that people could get high from eating a swiss cheeseburger.

But, if the use of marijuana fodder has been going on for generations with little consequence (which population is more sober and punctual than the Swiss?), it seems the current campaign may be more about political grandstanding than public safety. Moreover, if a public demand does exist for pot-free milk, the marketplace will provide for that. Instead of threatening farmers with sanctions, why not encourage them to offer a new variety of milk called "straight-edge" (from sober, unhappy cows) to compliment existing varieties like whole, skim and soy? That way, people can choose for themselves exactly how they want to "do their body good."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/offbeat/2007/03/no_more_pot_for_swiss_dairy_co.html

 

[GOD]

I`ve never seen them eat cannabis but i have seen them after eating Psilocybe Semilanceata standing with their legs spread wide so that they dont fall over , with a strange look on their faces and their heads to one side , sort of trying to look at you with one eye . I`ve allso seen horses triping on them to , freaking out running around being chased and chasing things that werent there .

 

[Guest]

Seriously, this dumbass government campaigning has to stop somewhere......

I bet that small trace amount isn't harmfull, in contrairy to the shit they put in food.

 

[GOD]

I think you mean in contrary to the shit that they call food ???

 

[Guest]

I think you mean in contrary to the shit that they call food ???

Exactly :thumbsup:

It's a damn shame a lot of people have no idea what the word food actually means.


Food is any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by an animal or human being for nutrition or pleasure.

 

[user_1919]

I just don't get why so many governments hate marijuana, like what is the big deal. It is being used for so many things, why can't they just admit that they are wrong, and thats final. Maybe it is becasue it is a mind-expanding drug. Maybe they don't want the other portion of the world to wake up as we have...

 

[Skeetastic]

Those poor cows

 

[BrainEater]

hehe i'm pretty sure cows eating weed are happier than the ones that don't eat weed. In addition they are more stoned too, but anyway cows are hanging out on the grass and eating just the same all day, so it's probably good for them.

i bet the hate on marihuana by governments is caused by the coming up of the harsh laws in the USA. I don't know exactly when, but at some time, the anti-weed campaign started in the US and was intensely propagated by the government by then. Maybe you know the propaganda movies, they're insane...you can maybe find them in youtube. So when it was put in the law, no one dared to change it afterwards or they just clinged to the same, without thinking about it or just thought it had to stay the same, because the government needs to control people. but well... an intelligent explanation is still lacking so....yeah...


it's just ridiculous for some herbs can be legally used for stimulation and others not.

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and then they even claim that even cows can't eat it anymore, but well at least they say, because their "product" is supposed to be inadequate for humans by law.
haha...

 

[MindAstronaut]

Swiss milk products will never be the same again

 

[Guest]

no more swiss products for me! why they only forbid the good stuff ? i'd say, let's set a couple of politicians on fire, or better yet: nail a 10cm nail in their knees and place them on the middle of the freeway

 

[Forkbender]

So now we forbid other species to get high as well? F*** that. Humans can't stop nature, they can only postpone it until they are extinct.

 

[HeartCore]

Don't eat cows, don't drink milk, all cows happy.

 

[BrainEater]

maybe they should sell the milk of "human cows" instead, and therefore not interfering in the rights of the cows to eat weed, just because we drink their milk.

 

[Guest]

heartcore, i've milked many cows in my life and i know FOR SURE that cows enjoy being miked. they become unrested and reactionary (like a mob) fi we DON'T milk them. the same with sheep and goats (although goats can endure many days without milking, but i think it differs from species to species of goats).
so i don't see where the problem of drinking milk comes in. perhaps i misunderstood something ?

 

[gammagoblin]

heartcore, i've milked many cows in my life and i know FOR SURE that cows enjoy being miked. they become unrested and reactionary (like a mob) fi we DON'T milk them. the same with sheep and goats (although goats can endure many days without milking, but i think it differs from species to species of goats).
so i don't see where the problem of drinking milk comes in. perhaps i misunderstood something ?

Cow's only produce milk when they just had calfs, so in order for us to get the milk we have to take the calf away from its mother.

Of course you could argue this isn't bad either, because the calf will be taken care of (don't ask how, as the primary goal of this is to get it as fat as possible in the shortest possible time) but these thing's just aren't natural. Who are we to decide over the life (from birth to death) of another being?

 

[Forkbender]

heartcore, i've milked many cows in my life and i know FOR SURE that cows enjoy being miked. they become unrested and reactionary (like a mob) fi we DON'T milk them. the same with sheep and goats (although goats can endure many days without milking, but i think it differs from species to species of goats).
so i don't see where the problem of drinking milk comes in. perhaps i misunderstood something ?

That's because we breeded them to give loads of milk, which is quite unnatural. Imagine female humans giving milk all the time. I don't know if we can return to the pre-human cow, don't know if there are any natural cows left.

 

[Guest]

forkbender, i know, but i don't think that cows think: "back in the old days, when we were wild...". they just think is the most natural thing in the world to be milked three/four times a day. they don't know life any more different than this. you can really see a cow's satisfaction as you touch those little titties full of milk...i advise you all to try to milk a cow. the first time is amazing, almost like having sex for the first time (even if the first isn't very good, you have time to get better, i am talking about the feeling)

 

[Forkbender]

I agree, except for the bestiality-part :wink:
I just think that most farmers milk their cows primarily for the financial benefit, probably using a machine to do so, instead of their love for their cows, which they DO have.

 

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[Guest]

forkbender, you are right. i forgot about the machinery. they enter the machine as a cow full of milk, their titties are squeezed mechanically, and then they exit as a warm mcbacon. i was talking about the "traditional way", more human and happy. don't you just hate when machines get in your way all day long ? when the computers crash, or the server freezes on your job ? no one can do nothing, exept for me, closing my eyes for a second and thinking: "now i have privacy, the beast is asleep".
unfortunately, i ignored this. i wish dear old cows could be milked as i milked them, with a person to talk to and to tap their big heads and slap their butts. i wish i could do something to them, to make them happier. and i am not against feeding on them, it is natural. i also think that our dead bodies could be food for other animals, and perhaps other people. i guess this is very extreme, but i think meat is meat. "we" don't "are" our bodies, so...why waste good meat when there's so many hunger ? i'd be happy to give my dead body to a nice cow.