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  • Yes the dairy cycle is more complex I simplified it because I wanted to focus the impregnation part.

    Milk production decreases greatly after the first 9-12 months. To make it profitable they do get impregnated repeatedly. The life of a dairy cow typically goes like this:

    • 15 months old: First pregnancy
    • 24 months old: First calf is born
    • For around 12 months: milking
    • 60 days “dry off”

    The cycle is then repeated. Since pregnancy and milk production is taxing on the body and milk production declines, most cows get slaughtered at 5 years old with an average of 2.5 pregancies (average lifespan is 20 years). This also makes sense because to maintain the herd you need to keep the number of females stable, which have a 50% chance of being born (male claves get slaughtered ofc).

    Maybe some homesteads or subsistence farms keep milking them for years after one pregnancy, but otherwise even for free range grass fed whatever, if they sell milk to make a profit this is how it goes.

    You can get all this info from industry sources.








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    6 days ago

    Depends on the definition. In Lenin’s Imperialism, the highest form of capitalism, he defines five criteria:

    And so, without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its complete development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

    1. the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;

    2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy;

    3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;

    4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist combines which share the world among themselves, and

    5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

    1 and 2 apply with some caveats, 3 and 4 are a yes (WTO, UN, BRICS, etc), and 5 should be seen through a soft-power neo colonialist lens with China’s influence in Africa for example.

    This is not meant to be anti-China or whatever, anything China has done pales in comparison with US imperialism, just that I don’t think it’s a completely baseless accusation.