WTF. are they demanding a monthly ransom??

You wouldn't want this cute calf to be slaughtered, would you? Then pay up 💰

@nm @vegan Imagine a dog meat farmer did this and said to the non-dog eaters they will spare this dog and not kill them for meat if you pay them a monthly fee.

landscape Regen

Soil building

Biodiversity

While cattle can certainly help with these things, even small scale ops are often poorly managed. I've seen a fuck ton of over grazed and compacted pasture

"Our meat program" Literal support for the corpseflesh industry isn't "vegan". If you want to keep animals away from slaughter, support actual sanctuaries that aren't threatening to kill anyone, or take a bolt cutter and break the cages and fences yourself.

The comments here had me expecting a Save Toby type of thing. Look it up! It was both funny and quite messed up! Much worse than this.

Personally, I'm seeing this a little differently. Small animal farms don't exactly earn a lot of money. If people are only willing to pay for meat, then those animals really have to be slaughtered and sold. There's no financially viable alternative. Especially given that it costs real money to care for a single large animal like a cow or horse. I can confidently say that $50 per month is quite low for the cost of a single cow.

Don't eat meat! That's the solution, right? If the world stops eating meat, then those farm raised animals won't be slaughtered for food. Great! But then those same farms still need to produce food and won't carry live stock. Which means that those animals simply wouldn't exist going forward. Lots more plants and fast fewer animals. There are other reasons why that's probably a good thing but it's a tangent.

If you want these animals to be farm raised and simply live a long, happy life, then paying a farm to keep them seems like a good option to me.