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> I'm pretty sure dairy farmers don't shoot cows in the head if they get sick, with the same carefree shrug I do when I terminate Kubernetes pods and nodes, but maybe they do?

Dairy farmers tend to be very practical about putting down animals that are past a certain point. If a 7 year old cow needs $N of surgery to live, but she can realistically only be expected to give another $N*0.5 worth of milk in her life, she's hamburger.



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