• Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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    1287 days ago

    We have three options here:

    All dairy products are actually non-dairy equivalents that happened to just take the original names.

    There are equally intelligent milk-producing species that either keep themselves in a milk producing state or are otherwise forced into said state.

    Or

    There is an unseen slave caste of lesser intelligent members of species that are harvested for their products.

    • @[email protected]
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      507 days ago

      Option 1: the best way to do things, but probably counts as a microaggression

      Option 2.1: probably what Disney would go with

      Option 2.2: the fanfiction explanation

      Option 3: the grimdark version

      • @[email protected]
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        187 days ago

        Perhaps it was option 2 or 3 originally which is why all the names are the same but over time transitioned into option 1 in a sort of abolition movement.

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          86 days ago

          I could imagine the dairy and veal industry being a very sore subject for cows in zootopia, and casual references to dairy products might be a painful barb for them.

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            6 days ago

            Isn’t option 1 all dairy products being non dairy? I’m sorry am i just particularly slow?

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              36 days ago

              It is, but they retain the same names as dairy products did. If it was option 4, the cows in society would be separate from the milked creatures, so they might be totally unaffected by thinking about the dairy industry. It is unpleasant for different reasons, though

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                6 days ago

                All mammals produce milk, not just cows.

                Assuming zootopia never had a cows milk industry, dairy wouldn’t be wrongly assumed to just mean bovine milk.

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                  36 days ago

                  That’s what I’m saying. I’m interpreting “original names” to mean that they used to be made out of cow dairy products (instead of just happening on the same names we use), so option three is the only one where the cows in society might be totally unconnected to the dairy industry.

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      377 days ago

      lmao #3 is how they do it in bojack horseman. There’s an intelligent chicken who has a “lesser” dumb chicken farm

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        127 days ago

        And those “lesser” chickens are created by injecting chickens after birth with something that makes them essentially mentally disabled, though they are still sentient

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          56 days ago

          You know what?

          Bojack should be depressed. His whole society should be destroyed. I’m glad I stopped watching the sad horse show.

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      based on all the shit that cars 2 not only implies but explicitly shows on screen (genetically inferior racial underclass hell-bent on destruction of the civilised world, engine transphobia, sentient beings welded in place to do their work, force-feeding a man until his heart literally explodes out of his body, cartholicism), i would not at all be surprised if it turned out to be 3.

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      56 days ago

      There is an unseen slave caste of lesser intelligent members of species that are harvested for their products.

      This is why you don’t see monkeys in zootopia