 Hello everyone, welcome to another video. So today's video is about a dairy farmer called the Sask Dutch Kid. He has a YouTube channel and he sort of documents his daily work life where he milks and exploits about 300 cows. So recently the Sask Dutch Kid has decided to take it upon himself to debunk some common vegan lies about the dairy industry. So today I'll be responding to his video entitled The Truth About Artificial Insemination. So I've been here on YouTube for six months or so now talking to a camera and in that time I've had a ton of hate comments, a ton of comments from vegans and animal activists. Great work vegans and animal activists. Who just maybe don't know what they're talking about. Don't know what we're talking about. Interesting, let's hear it. And I wanted to make a little bit of a mini video series here on the channel talking about some of those subjects, artificial insemination, why we take the calves away from the cows and stuff like that. Well I'm going to have my work cut out for me because this might not be the only response video that I make. I want to preface these videos by saying I have nothing against vegans or I don't care if you drink milk or eat meat. So he prefaces the video by paying lip service to vegans which is a very common thing that people do when they're not vegan. Oh it's great that you're vegan just don't force it on me. And then he goes on to say I don't care if people eat meat or drink milk when literally as an entire business depends on the demand for meat and dairy. So like yeah you do because you wouldn't have a job you would go out of business if people didn't eat meat and dairy. So of course you're going to take it upon yourself to debunk the detrimental claims that are levied against your industry by animal lovers and vegans and activists. But I think there needs to be a line drawn when you start to lie and use mistruth and misinformation to try and manipulate people into adhering to your agenda. Sounds exactly what the dairy industry do every year with their propaganda campaigns trying to talk about humane dairy and you know we take the calves away from their mother to protect the calves it's nothing to do with the fact that the calf will drink the milk that we need to sell. You know we kill them painlessly it's completely humane you know not nice on a pasture and they love it the cows love being milked. That's exactly what the dairy industry does to propagate their agenda. And yeah vegans and animal activists do have an agenda it's a positive agenda about animal liberation and we're against animal abuse and cruelty. The dairy industry is inherently cruel. So I hope this video series can help debunk a couple of those lies and you know kind of set the record straight. So today we're going to be talking about artificial insemination and why we use it here on dairy farms. I'm all ears mate. Wow mate that's some really warm hearted and uplifting music to introduce such a sinister industry and their practices. So what is artificial insemination or AIing a cow? Basically what it is is you have a straw of semen and you inject it in the cow's uterus so that you can manually get her pregnant without needing to have a bull in the barn. You know what a euphemism is it's where someone uses another word to describe something that's actually very horrific and disturbing. So you know you know we just get a tube of semen and we artificial inseminate the cow so we don't need a bull in the barn just really brushes over it casually. What you do is you get your fist and you put it inside the anus of the cow you hold the cervix and you get the pipette full of bull semen which was masturbated out of a bull. Okay two very violating things two very disturbing things that you're doing to both of these animals to all of these animals and then you're injecting to you know force a pregnancy on a cow that cannot give consent. So a ton of vegans and animal activists will want you to believe that this is rape. Well that's because it is rape cows are not capable of giving consent you know just like an underage child is not capable of giving consent someone with a severe mental handicap is not capable of giving consent or someone that's been drugged is not capable of giving consent these cows are not capable of giving consent to use. So yes it is rape but that's just not the case because a cow doesn't have a bias as to who breeds her. A cow doesn't have a bias as to who breeds her that's just patently false. In this 1998 study cows apparently assessed variants in male quality and approached high ranking bulls and ran away from low ranking bulls there we go they do have a bias as to who they breed with but when they're in a dairy farm they don't have a choice because you only put whatever bull you want in there and either way even if a cow didn't have a bias which we've proved they do that in no way justifies a human being who is a moral agent to take advantage of her. For example if I was to take a perfectly in-heat heifer and put her in a pen with a bull they would breed a hundred percent of the time if you know she was in heat and if I took that bull out 21 days later when she came in heat again and put a different bull in there that you know hesitation she would get her business done uh with that bull and she wouldn't care who the bull was. So there's a guy who puts one bull in a pen you know the the cow doesn't even have a choice to select her mate only the one mate that is locked in the pen with her so do you think that's a choice and it's almost like he's trying to say that because animals act in a certain way because a bull acts in a certain way and the cow acts in a certain way but that then's a justification for him to act in the same way you see the cows do it in nature therefore I as a moral agent a human being am allowed to participate in the behavior that happens in nature which is an appeal to nature fallacy you can't navigate your morality based on what the animals in nature are doing or what cows behavior is you are a human being and you are a moral agent we don't say oh because lions kill in nature that it therefore justifies us to kill each other or because bulls rape cows or cows just let whoever they want sleep with them that then justifies us sexual behavior in a civilized society does it and she doesn't care so she doesn't care so this guy's a cow whisperer now he knows her deepest thoughts cows just don't care whether they get enslaved or whether they get forcibly impregnated or whether they get led down the kill line to a slaughterhouse they just don't care that it's mindless machines with no wants or desires they don't avoid pain and suffering they don't get uncomfortable they don't care I'm going I'm still going to say this even if it was proven that the cow didn't care it still wouldn't morally justify the action because let's just say you have you know a small child who'd been brought up in this system of exploitation and raised you know within the confines of some weird kidnapped facility they got conditioned to this way of living and they no longer cared that their you know victimizer raped them that would not justify the rape and in the same way someone with a mental handicap and they couldn't really understand what was happening to the point that they cared that would not justify a moral agent taking advantage of that person or animal it just doesn't because as a moral agent you are morally culpable you can't hold a bull morally culpable it's just because a cow acts in a certain way it doesn't mean that you're justified to you know advance on her or or violate her the only time a procedure like that would be morally justified if it was in the cow's best interest but it's not it's in your best interest as a milk seller that's all that's the only reason you get no pregnant not because you need to intervene for some medical emergency to help the cows because you want to fist her and inject bull semen into her so you can produce calves and produce milk and sell the calves and sell the milk the second thing that kind of proves that this isn't rape is i can go into the freestyle barn here and if the cow is just freely standing in there i can go up to her and ai her i can give her every chance to walk away while i'm doing the process the entire process and a lot of the time when they're in strong heat they'll actually just stand there and allow me to do it i actually got it on video two times here in the last week so his claim is that it's not rape because the cow didn't resist and she just allows him to do it so let's apply this in a different context with like a woman if they were drugged and that was sufficiently impaired to the point where they just you know didn't resist and they just allowed the attacker to do it would that then morally justify that that rape like and as i mentioned before if someone was severely mentally handicapped and they didn't understand and they just allowed an attacker to do it does that morally justify the action if you're a moral agent of course it doesn't you know there's a quote that i like to use and it's the more vulnerable the victim the greater the crime there's also something in the legal sense called statutory rape whereby an older person can be charged for coercing and having intercourse with a younger individual and this is a law for a reason so at a certain age you just you can't make you know moral decisions for yourself about sexual intercourse so they hold the older person responsible for coercing the younger person because the younger person isn't old enough to conceptualize consent to the greatest extent and i would use that analogy in this context here uh so you guys can watch that right now and you know judge it for yourself do you think it's rape or not because i give these ladies every chance to walk away from me artificially inseminating them and uh they don't i give these ladies every chance to run away in their pen where they can't escape so these this is an intensive farm where they're all behind big fences and they can't escape him even if they tried um i want to talk to you about like stock home syndrome which is a psychological response that occurs when hostages are abuse victims bond with their captives or abusers and this could be another thing to explain why the cows don't try to escape so this guy's literally separated from their mother upon birth straight away immediately and he's beginning to bottle feed these infants and you know he is like the only guardian they've ever known because they've been separated from their mother kept in confinement and he's the one who's fed them like this is where the stock home syndrome uh effect comes in these dairy farmers are like the only guardians or parents these calves have ever known me artificially inseminating them and uh they don't i'm just putting the gun through our cervix here this is interesting so now he's showing the footage of the ai to prove that they don't struggle to prove that they they're not restrained or something but he just cut to the point where his fist is already inside the anus of the cow why didn't you show the insertion process that's the part that's uncomfortable you know i know why he cut i know i'm an editor so i edit i edit most of my own videos and he cut it to that point because he specifically left out the part where he lubes up his fist and inserts it because that's where the cow struggles that's the point the cow struggles so he's deliberately you know cut it to that part he's already got the pipette of semen in there you know you didn't show us anything dude very very sinister very shady there we go make sure it's in the right spot and just as casual way he's going about see now all i'm doing is i've got the pipette semen in there like he's so casual about it he's overly casual about something that's you know maybe it's just overly conditioned but i believe he's being overly casual to sort of calm people down and go oh look it's not right the cow wants it awesome awesome that is awesome that is awesome you got your fist inside the the anus of a cow pool over your hand you think that that's awesome i think that that's disturbing and it's disgusting to me so she just stood there you guys can see she's not locked up in any way but the cows are sort of looking back like like what what the hell we're like who knows what this cow is thinking but you know the dairy farmer knows because he's a mind reader with cows this cow is in very strong heat right now and she doesn't care and again mr dairy farmer thanks for speaking up for the cow you're saying she doesn't care like look she doesn't care like i know she doesn't care about any of this she doesn't care about any of the processes that we do to the cow the cows love it in here like they don't care whatever we do violate them you know mutilate them you know take their calves away they just don't care like this is me the dairy farmer speaking on behalf of the animals no i prefer animal rights activists speaking up for me not you you don't have their best interest at heart you have financial interest at heart here i'll speak for the cow what you're doing is extremely perverted she doesn't care who breeds her how it's done she just wants to get bread right now so see again in this clip it doesn't show the process of insertion why not let's go back bread right now so notice how he's only cutting to the clip where it's already in uh not good enough mate not good enough now even if so if so even if he let's just say he goes okay joey i'll respond to you i'll make a clip where the cow doesn't walk away it still is violating the cow it's still they cannot give consent it's still sexually exploiting these animals for your own financial interests but still this edit is cut in a very sinister way you didn't show us anything mate you think like come on you think that we're stupid or something why didn't you show the beforehand why didn't you show the whole process not when your fist is already up inside the cow the cow's course it's not going to move it's got to fist up her ass of course she's not going to she's going to stay still if she moves around now it's going to hurt i look at her head tilted over to the side like you think like i don't know just i just don't believe this farmer that he thinks these cows are just fine with it when does a bull insert into the anus anyway like i think a bull would go into the vagina i don't think a bull has like goes into that hole anyway like i know this is graphic guys and i'm sorry for that but it has to be addressed he's got his fist inside the cow's anus and a little pipette in her vagina so the bull is going to go into the vagina like it is naturally but either way it's just not the natural way these cows breed i mean the fist in the anus isn't going to be comfortable for anyone and the thing is like resistance is futile anyway like what are they supposed to do run away from him they's got he's got them in captured they can't run away these cows have been so well trained by this guy to follow commands and orders come on ladies come on let's go just look how they listen to every single direction when feeding and being milk so therefore it's not hard to believe that these cows have also become accustomed to the ar process so there you guys go um again this cow can walk freely anywhere in the barn um she's not forced to stay there she's not tied up she's not locked up in any way at all uh yeah she's literally forced to stay in that barn she's forced to stay in that caged-off area like she's free to walk anywhere she wants no no no so so like again like how can the cow get away from you and what would happen if the cow resisted anyway what would happen to that cow if they resisted you would just lock her up in your cattle crush so you guys can see there the first cow that a ai uh she stood perfectly still so we don't know that she stood perfectly still you didn't show the insertion process you cut that part out and also like even if she did do you think that the fact that the cow stood perfectly still while you ai'd her justifies the fact that you've got a massive farm here with 300 cows that are all going to the slaughterhouse and you're exploiting them for every drop of milk they have separating the calves from their mothers you know do you think that that the fact oh but the cow doesn't move when i ai them justifies this horrific you know sinister industry that you're taking part in here have a look at it these are all sentient animals in a massive big intensive farm being treated as milk machines and then slaughtered and turned into steak like this is the biggest animal rights violation on the planet the fact a cow doesn't move which i don't believe you anyway the fact a cow doesn't move when you ai her does not justify the entire thing and on top of that the animals can't consent to ai anyway still she just wasn't really good heat so she she didn't care she just stood there i gave her every chance to walk away i gave her every chance to walk away like how's that for a justification i mean it's just it just boggles my mind they don't have any chance to escape from you mate they don't they're in a they're in a massive facility there and i wonder if you'll give her every chance to walk away when it's time for her to be slaughtered at the slaughterhouse will you let her go down the kill line and would you let her would you let her try to escape the kill floor cows do try to escape the kill floor they absolutely terrified in those places are you going to let her escape that every chance to walk away are you going to take are you going to get consent off the cow for her slaughter i don't think you are because at the end of the day she's just a product to you don't give a shit about these cows you care about the money that you make from them um and a lot of people might say oh she's in a barn she knows she can't get away at the end but uh exactly people like me so see how he just it was a Freudian slip there on people might say that she can't get away anyway exactly she can't get away she's she's enslaved by you and your farm a cow will not hesitate to just run away from you if you're doing something she doesn't like so that's a pretty bad argument how do you know that how do you know that how do you know a cow won't hesitate to walk away if you're doing something that she doesn't like i think you know because i think you know that cows sometimes don't want you to do things and you still do them and the second one there she did move around a little bit um but eventually she stood perfectly still and allowed me to complete the process i don't know what this guy's trying to prove here like look look it's not right because you know they're not held down in iraq most ai's are done in a cattle crush most ai's are done in a cattle crush look at this farmers weekly magazine here like it just says make sure your cow is appropriately restrained i mean this is just ai procedure they all should be restrained in a cattle crush and this guy actually has a cattle crush which is quite funny like he's like i've got this cattle crush we don't use it though because the cows want it you know they want it you use your cattle crush don't bullshit us i mean this is just a massive like counter to the criticism of what he's doing to these cows so he's trying to make it look as nice as possible look they want it look they want it i mean you're not falling us mate i wonder if this guy would mind if someone violated him like this let's say he couldn't talk couldn't defend himself was held in captivity and someone was violating him in the same way he violates these cows and imagine if this cow did fight back what would happen to the cow cattle prodded held down in a crush hit who knows the cows are such gentle submissive animals they just give up they don't fight they're not fighting animals they just let humans do what they want to them and that's what's so sad because they they just can't defend themselves they're so vulnerable they're so defenseless that they just allow humans to just fuck with them so the next question is why do we even artificially inseminate cows in the first place and that's a really good question bulls can be a lot more aggressive than cows there's tons and tons of stories of people getting injured in barns or the bull puts his head down and rams in between the headlockers or a post or the bed there's something and there's even stories of people that have died unfortunately in barns so he's basically saying it's in the farmer's best interest not to use bulls uh because the bulls can be dangerous that's because you're interfering with these animals of course you know if you get injured it's your own fault mating with bulls is less effective than ai you know like when you do ai you just you're guaranteeing uh impregnating the cow so it's just much more consistent and effective for the farmers that had bulls in there uh it's just really not that safe and we can take that bull out of the barn with artificial insemination and make the working environment in here a lot safer a lot safer for you but again you're not thinking of the animals you're just thinking of yourself basically with with these decisions you want the best of the best genetics and with artificial insemination we can ship semen from these bulls across the entire country and hundreds and hundreds of farmers can use those genetics to make better cows so they just they buy the semen off these genetically superior bulls so that the animals that come out through the impregnation process are genetically superior they produce more milk so the only time these farmers do anything in the interest of the animal is when it serves their financial interest so the welfare standard is looking after the cows disease prevention and all these things is because the cows are their products so they're looking after their resource that's all this is i mean dairy farmers act like they're these sanctuary owners and yeah we love our we love our cattle like we love our children well that's disturbing you would never treat children in the way that you treat these cows you'd actually go to prison if you truly cared about these animals you wouldn't be exploiting them for profit and sending them to the slaughterhouse simple which means the whole farm is going to be more efficient and you know that's good for the environment and the farmer as a business owner it's interesting that a farmer says he cares about the environment like they care they care about their business more than they care about the environment let's face it i mean nothing they got 21 hundred acres of land to feed these 300 cows it's crazy like these massive bales of hay and like huge vats full of grain and barley and it's just crazy the amount of water and you know the methane that these cows let off is not good for the environment anyway but i'm talking about the rights violation here the the environment comes second for me this is about the animals and what they're going through and and how this is just an injustice the third reason uh the bull if he's in the herd he can spread diseases pretty quickly and and again they don't care about disease spreading because of the interest of the animal they don't want disease spreading because you know it'll spread to their product their resource it's all about their own financial interest it's a running thing the final reason i'm going to mention today is we can actually sex that semen and what that means is we can cow out i believe 90 to 95 percent daughters so the reason they use sex semen is purely out of financial interest when they have uh bull calves they're more of a burden let's just say they can't sell off the bull calf for the veal industry or for a steer for the beef industry the market isn't very good they have to dispose of that bull calf now in a dairy industry it makes more sense to have more females so they can have more milk producers so they can have more money and less less waste basically that's how they see it i mean if if 95 percent of them come out as a female then they know they're going to have more females to produce their dairy it's got nothing to do with the interests of the animals it's all about financial interest the reality is bulls just aren't that profitable for a dairy farm there we go bulls just aren't that profitable for a dairy farm they're a burden and that's why they kill them on site so we don't want them and instead of having a bunch out and they're not knowing what to do with them we can only cow out daughters and this is a really beneficial thing for a lot of dairy farms like just here in the uk like 90 000 um bull calves are slaughtered on the farm like shot in the head and some farms use blunt force trauma check out my instagram at sasdutchkit and i hope to see you guys in the next video now in his in the next video i'm going to respond to him is going to be about what they do with their bull calves on their farm because not all farms kill their bull calves you know straight after birth some farms do some farms raise them sell raise them for two weeks sell them off for veal and some farms will actually raise them as steers and sell them off for beef or sell them off to a feedlot so they can raise them for beef so i'll be happy to have sasdutchkit on the channel to discuss the ethics of the dairy industry to discuss the ethics of animal agriculture just in general if you're interested you can email me at joeycarbstrong at gmail.com and we can set up a discussion a live discussion on my channel so thanks for watching everyone ditch dairy choose plant milks and be vegan