Meaning of rape rack | Babel Free

Definitions

A device for restraining an animal, in experimentation or the dairy and meat industry, so that it can be artificially inseminated or mated with by another animal.

slang

Examples

“The little data we now possess [suggest] that rape-rack experience does not overcome female frigidity — a finding not completely surprising.”

“Undoubtedly, milk production for human consumption is violence against the female reproductive system and sanctity of motherhood; thus, the “rape rack” enables and defends a world of rapists.”

“...the queen bee's wings so that she can't leave the colony or to have her artificially inseminated on a bee-sized version of the factory farm “rape rack.””

“Indeed, it is hard to take seriously the idea that many of the practices of intensive agriculture — the rape rack, the farrowing crate, live export, the use of growth-promoting drugs, genetic manipulation, and so on — are either natural or morally benign.”

“The first item that caught my attention was the Rape Rack: the machine to which cows are strapped while they are “artificially inseminated” repeatedly until conception.”

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