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Cows eating grass as revolutionary statement

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Rob spotted this fascinating and somewhat dispiriting story: ‘Cows eat grass’ and other inflammatory statements. The Dean of an Agricultural School claims to have no opinion on whether cows evolved to eat grass. Essentially because such a view is too threatening to the corn-fed cow business in Iowa. Never mind truth.

It reminds me of Vaclav Havel’s philosophy of living in truth. Much easier said than done it seems.

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