One can only imagine that the cow that escaped an Ohio slaughterhouse on Monday had life, freedom, and the open road on his mind. The 1,000-pound steer took off into the woods of suburban Cincinnati, according to an AP article, after slipping through a gate that had been left open. I guess he felt it wasn’t his time to become flank steak.
Perhaps while he’s on the lam, he’ll be able to pick up a copy of Sunday’s New York Times, in which Mark Bittman—author of How to Cook Everything Vegetarian but admittedly not a vegetarian himself—discusses how we should really be rethinking our meat consumption. The average American eats almost 200 pounds of animal protein a year, an increase of about 50 pounds per person when compared to data from 50 years ago. That’s more than half a pound of meat a day.
The cow would certainly agree with Michael Pollan, whom the article quotes as saying, “Who said people had to eat meat three times a day?”
Run, little (whoops, I mean big) steer, run!
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They say I should eat 7oz of meat or beans a day.
Not to get too technical, but a cow is a female that has had calves and a steer is a castrated male. Neither is exactly a “he” if you know what I mean.
from an economic point meat makes no sense (i eat meat )
think of how many pounds of vegetable matter it takes to fatten up 1 cow versus how many people could feed directly on the veg matter
nbergus: A steer has been castrated – it hasn’t had a sex change! It’s still a “he.”