“Sure, you can come and take pictures. We don’t have any secrets here, and you will have a very special view of the sex life of breeding bulls nowadays,” Josef Miesenberger, head of the “artificial insemination” station in Hohenzell, Austria, told photographer Leonhard Foeger.
The law recognizes breeding as an exception to bestiality AS LONG AS the farmer does not get any enjoyment from it. If he did, the act could be criminally prosecuted as bestiality. But since it is done in the name of commerce, it is legal, nonconsensual sexual contact. In other words, the law protects artificial breeding as a “necessary standard agricultural practice” and as an exception to the normal right of the animal not to be sexually violated. In doing so, the law essentially ignores the animal’s suffering, distress and pain associated with breeding. Without artificial breeding, all the cheese, milk, ice cream, steak, pork, turkey, bacon and hamburger as we know it today, would not be available.
Photo of Wille the Austrian bull, who has been forcibly ejaculated 375,000 times. His semen is sold worldwide to artificially inseminate females. Photo: Leonhard Foeger. See complete photo gallery and story on Reuters at http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2013/04/18/who-said-farming-cant-be-fun/.
Learn exactly how “artificial insemination” is performed on dairy cows who must be forcibly impregnated to lactate and produce milk for dairy farmers at http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/the-sexual-violation-of-dairy-cows-14-step-process-of-artificial-insemination/.
The law recognizes breeding as an exception to bestiality AS LONG AS the farmer does not get any enjoyment from it. If he did, the act could be criminally prosecuted as bestiality. But since it is done in the name of commerce, it is legal, nonconsensual sexual contact. In other words, the law protects artificial breeding as a “necessary standard agricultural practice” and as an exception to the normal right of the animal not to be sexually violated. In doing so, the law essentially ignores the animal’s suffering, distress and pain associated with breeding. Without artificial breeding, all the cheese, milk, ice cream, steak, pork, turkey, bacon and hamburger as we know it today, would not be available.
Photo of Wille the Austrian bull, who has been forcibly ejaculated 375,000 times. His semen is sold worldwide to artificially inseminate females. Photo: Leonhard Foeger. See complete photo gallery and story on Reuters at http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2013/04/18/who-said-farming-cant-be-fun/.
Learn exactly how “artificial insemination” is performed on dairy cows who must be forcibly impregnated to lactate and produce milk for dairy farmers at http://freefromharm.org/animal-cruelty-investigation/the-sexual-violation-of-dairy-cows-14-step-process-of-artificial-insemination/.