I’m not saying the somatic cells in commercial milk are harmful, that’s precisely why somatic cell counts need to exist.

Your response comment seemed to suggest that the claim that the FDA has a somatic and blood cell count is “PETA propaganda”, which it is not. I didn’t post “PETA ignorance”, just facts you can look up from objective sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell_count

Also milk = rape is totally factual (though a terrible way to try to reach the public)

• Bulls are immobilized and forcibly masturbated in order to get sperm.
• Cows are then forcibly inseminated to be pregnant back to back during their lives so they produce milk. This also typically involves restraining the cow in some chute and shoving an arm up the her ass to hold the cervix in place during the process.

So if you believe that non-human animals can be SA’d the dairy industry most likely covers that definition.

You can look this stuff up yourself in industry sources, it’s just industry practice including free-range cows.

This is not a “factoid” but a fact you can look up yourself from many non-animal rights sources (even if there are many reliable ones).

Look up “somatic cell count” on Wikipedia. Food safety regulations around the world define a number of somatic cells (which is what pus is made of). Same for blood cells.

Depends on the definition. In Lenin’s Imperialism, the highest form of capitalism, he defines five criteria:

And so, without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its complete development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

1. the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;

2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy;

3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;

4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist combines which share the world among themselves, and

5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.

1 and 2 apply with some caveats, 3 and 4 are a yes (WTO, UN, BRICS, etc), and 5 should be seen through a soft-power neo colonialist lens with China’s influence in Africa for example.

This is not meant to be anti-China or whatever, anything China has done pales in comparison with US imperialism, just that I don’t think it’s a completely baseless accusation.

I don’t disagree but this still happens in non slop open source projects

I appreciate the effort and I will check it out. However imo the original works (ie Marx, Engels, Lenin) are too dense for a begginer, I feel there has to be a softer learning curve, with more digested content. For example I’m reading the Vietnamese textbook and I think it does a very good job at explaining excerpts of the originals in accessible language. Denser doesn’t mean more accurate or better in all cases, just generally harder to read.