Rape rack
What is a Rape Rack?
- Why Feminism Applies to Cows
Rape rack is the industry term or nickname for the device used to artificially inseminate female cows so that they become pregnant and can eventually produce milk for human consumption. Grater racks are also used on other animals, such as monkeys, to breed them for scientific experiments.
- Why do I have to use the term rape rack?
It describes reality. Rape rack is a term that makes no apologies. Rape rack is graphic, horrifying, and violent. Rape Rack calls to mind the life-mutilating experience of being raped.
All of these definitions are true, and I will always use the word rape rack because I want to imply these meanings and others of similar gut-wrenching quality. As Carol J. Adams' wrote in The Sexual Politics of Meat, we must not use words that mask the reality of how non-human animals are treated.
We must liberate our language. Saying a cow is artificially inseminated provides no anecdote or explanation of exactly what happened; artificial insemination could be anything from a little needle to a human hand inserted into the vagina.
A rape rack implies that an object was used, the device was violently inserted into the vagina, and the animal was violated. This is not co-opting, a term that only applies to humans. Rape happened. This makes us uncomfortable.
It makes people squirm in their seats or call you hysterical. It should make us squirm; it's absolutely disgusting that anyone would impregnate any animal against their will, and the rape rack explicitly violates the right of personhood and autonomy. That is rape.
How Milk is Produced
I want to pause momentarily and return to my original definition of rape rack as "the device used to artificially inseminate female cows so that they become pregnant and can eventually produce milk for human consumption." I worded that very carefully because I want to stress how milk is produced, which surprisingly few people know.
My parents, over 50 years old each, had no clue. I didn't know about it until after I went vegan. This is the birds and the bees; people don't know flat out.
It's nothing to be ashamed of; we are not taught about how milk is made on purpose because it's basically awful, and I'd like to give the space now to have that discussion. Humans are the only mammals ( and thus animals ) that can produce milk for their whole lives after only being pregnant once. If you keep taking the milk, humans will keep making it. I'm sure there are exceptions, and maybe this isn't as natural as I'm led to believe, but it does explain our fundamental ignorance of how other animals work because the rest of them don't work like this.
Non-human animals only produce enough milk for the baby or babies they just had. Female cows produce milk for one year after being impregnated. Want cow milk? This is how you do it:
- Step 1) Impregnate the female cow with a rape rack, human hand, or male cow ( in descending order of likeliness, as I understand it ).
- Step 2) Female cow gives birth, and you take the baby cow away in one to seven days.
- Some farms wait longer, but who gives a damn? You are taking the baby away. That's not humane or acceptable. If the baby is male, he will usually become a veal cow ( yes even love to convince you they are awesome, organic, and humane farms do this, I've asked them when I still thought you could use animals nicely ) and be shipped to another farm.
- Girl babies became dairy cows like mom.
- Step 3) Milk cow for one year.
- Step 4) Return to step 1 and repeat because she has now stopped producing milk.
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