to satisfy PETA we now have GMO cows who experience orgasm when milked so its no longer animal abuse.

@icedquinn
So now you're raping the cows... lovely...

@alyx no now they just really enjoy being milked

@icedquinn
If they get orgasms, then milking them is equivalent to jacking them off... which means: you're raping them.

@alyx @icedquinn they're already basically raped when they get artificially inseminated

@cassidyclown @icedquinn
Not really, since neither of the party have or expect any kind of sexual pleasure out of it. Not even a really twisted and perverse kind.

Besides, if artificial insemination was anywhere close to rape, do you think you'd see human women get in vitro procedures done?

@alyx @icedquinn

Rape is defined by consent lmao not be the pleasure experienced by either party. Artificial insemination in cows is often quite painful for the cow. Human women choose to get it done because it's yaknow a choice.

@cassidyclown
But you tell us, o my consent is important...
Cows are consenting to everything when they are in heat.
@alyx @icedquinn

@frank87 @icedquinn @cassidyclown
By our definition of consent, animals wouldn't really qualify for it.
For our version of consent to work, being conscious, self-aware, higher cognitive abilities are basically needed. Maybe we could fit some apes and dolphins into our understanding of consent, but cows... no. don't think so.