Thursday, January 04, 2007

Stupid Cows

The western blizzards are making the going tough for cattle ranchers whose livestock is starving to death.

But not to fear, there's a massive publicly financed rescue operation underway.

Via MSNBC - Military helps cattle stranded by snow

And if cattle do die insurance and government will compensate ranchers for their losses.

However, the bison are fine:

The 20,000 bison on ranches in southeastern Colorado, western Kansas and Oklahoma were unaffected by the storm, partly because bison use their head and hump “like a big snowplow to get down to where the forage is"...


Bison also provide a healthier meat than cattle.

Better eating, better for you, and easier to manage. So why are we still eating cows?