15-20 years is the natural life span of cattle. Google it if you like.
In my country, all the wolves got wiped out and cattle are too big for foxes to take on.
Cattle get fewer diseases if they're not kept inside in cramped conditions eating unnatural bulking food like corn. and are instead allowed to graze grassland freely. Not all of them would live to 20 by a long shot, but a big proportion would make it past 15.
Cows don't naturally eat corn. It gives them really bad digestion problems, but makes them put on so much fat that it gets stored in little pockets in muscle tissue. The result is meat which has what's called "marbling" and is seen as a sign of quality and tastiness in the USA. This unnatural feed has health issues for the cattle and it's common in the USA to give low dosage antibiotics so that fewer animals get sick and have to be put down.
(This is the perfect bedding ground for antibiotic resistant bacteria, and more and more bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance which means when humans get an infection, they usually die rather than usually live, risking bacterial infection survival rates going back to nearer 19th century levels, when a random cut might just lead to your death. We're working hard on new antibiotics, but they're far more expensive than penecillin, and at the moment drug resistance is growing faster than me antibiotics are.)
In my country, only about 5% of cattle are kept inside all year, and they're almost all grass fed and meat is much leaner, and lean meat like (lean) fillet steak is seen as the highest quality.
There are quite a lot in supermarket, fast food restaurants etc in my country, but they're a lot more expensive than home charging. Your point is a good one, and we need more on street chargers where people park overnight.
I had absolutely no idea just how many electric chargers there are in my country until I got an EV and started using the zapmap app.
But that's just for long journeys. Most of the time I just plug in every few days when I get home and it changes in the cheap hours overnight when I only pay 9p per kwh.
I used to spend about five times as much on petrol as I do now on electricity. And the car is just so much more fun to drive. So much zoom.
Under 12 months is veal, so you were correct that most don't end up as veal.
But they count as calves until adulthood, which is nearer age 4. They're normally killed for meat at about 18 months or six in human years. They do continue to put on weight into adulthood, but less rapidly than in the first 18 months, so you get a better return on investment by killing them while they're still calves, because you've saved half your costs but got 3/4 of the weight in meat, and the meat is more tender and marketable.
So not quite full weight, and definitely still killed as a calf, not as an adult.
At least 50% of them are killed - very, very few males make it to adulthood.
This is incorrect.
Not this time, I don’t think. The internet says that male calves are typically killed for meat at 18 months old, but would reach adulthood at 4 years of age.
18 months is full weight
It's not not adulthood, and it's certainly not a full life, because cows and bulls would love to over 15 if we let them.
The majority of male calves are killed at 18 months for meat (equivalent of about 6 in human age) once they've put on enough weight. "Veal" is if they're killed under 12 months, which is rarer, but adulthood is a couple of years later, and yes, not just many of the calves, almost all of the male ones.
Dairy cows are killed once they've been milked for a few years as yields start to fall and become uneconomic. They typically live for six or fewer years, but their natural lifespan would be more than 15.
"Many" isn't doing a lot of lifting, it's doing a lot of understatement.
Not this time, I don't think. The internet says that male calves are typically killed for meat at 18 months old, but would reach adulthood at 4 years of age. One male breeder adult is rented out to other farmers for a fixed period to impregnate the whole (female) herd. All the other males are killed. So few males make it to adulthood that it's not normally even one per herd. Cows are usually killed if they don't get pregnant after a number of tries. There's no sense farmers spending a lot of money keeping an animal alive to not even get any milk from it, and there's not a lot of profit in farming in my country for them to sentimentally keep animals alive.
Yes, but also conservatives are frequently lying bastards who promise to not make things worse and then make things worse. The US supreme court judges aren't Canadian, but they are conservatives and the recently appointed ones all said that Roe v Wade was settled law and they wouldn't change it,.
Edit: incorrect: You don't need to keep getting them pregnant, you just need to consistently keep milking them. Milk production continues for as long as it is not left untaken. Definitely not vegan at all.
This was my experience as soon as I went electric too, yes. If anything, the only thing that's surprising about the article title to me is that it's only 20% more plaque!
Doesn't look like a new bathroom to me at all. Even if you're right, and the proud installer didn't remove the existing shower curtain out of stupidity, what's the point, though?
Isn't that the point?