COW APPRECIATION DAY

They've had cow appreciation day in India for decades. c.i.

Be careful who you send these cards to .... some may be offended, although I personally would be delighted!

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Heeven,
Do ostriches like cow cards? Where does an ostrich put its computer?

Sealpoet,
Is that the notorious land of Mu?

CI,
My older son told me that the sacrosanct status of Indian cows was due to the many products derived from these animals, however, over the centuries, the Hindus lost sight of why cows were sacred and only remembered that they were special.

I like cows too!

BillW,
There's a farm museum in Vermont that has a big cow appreciation day celebration. Also, there are lots of wolf breeders in the Green Mts.

Long ways away, I can just go out to the pasture here and appreciate them - but if I'm ever in the neighborhood

So true about Indian Cows, they produce dairy products, making much more food in a lifetime than simply slaughtering them would do, and their manure, when dried, has been the principle source of fuel for the poor in India (read, most Indians) for centuries.

Would love to be able to go out into the field and appreciate cows right now! Unfortunately, my fossilfuelburner is not in good shape ... don't think I'll risk getting to cows within the next couple of weeks.

I like the taste of cows - that's how I appreciate them (mwahahaha)

Plus I am an Emu, not an Ostrich. Did you know the male Emu incubates the eggs and takes care of the chicks when they are hatched?

In southern Illinois, a ruggedly beautiful area largely made up of the Shawnee National Forest, in the patchwork of land not owned by the Feds, family farms, some nearly 200 years old, are scattered. When deer hunting season arrives, the area fills with armed and dangerous idiots from Chicago and St. Louis. Local farmers are in the habit of painting the word "COW" in one foot high letters on the sides of their livestock . . . which reduces, but does not eliminate, the indiscrimate slaughter of unoffending livestock . . .

yikes!

This allows more time for the females to go out in pursuit of their favorite pastime, hunting the dreaded and dangerous cow for food! :razz:

The lesson here, then, is beware of the emu!!

Setanta,
When are you going to devote some energy to writing a novel, or have you already done that?

When Hell freezes over, darlin' . . .

So, if you see Ol' Nick asharpenin' his skates, look for me in the New York Times Book Review . . .


heeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .

okbye

PoM - i've tried to get the lad to write. Bought him a journal for Christmas 2 years ago. Has he used it? Probably not to start writing his stories/novel/anything! grrrrrrrrrrrr

Interesting, I think several of us here are would be writers dissapating our writing energy, but hey, I love it. I agree, Setanta could surely publish...

POMe, thank you for the notice about Cow Appreciation Day, this forewarns me to send cow cards to a few friends...in this case, snail mail cards.

One of the first recipients I have in mind is an artist that shows with us, who always always has a cow somewhere in her paintings, albeit sometimes an indecipherable smudge in a smudgey field (she paints expressionistically, her last show was titled "Wet Weather". She lives in Ferndale, one of our local cow-ey areas, and when she did a lot of her, um, primary cow work, she was in a house plunk in the middle of a field of Bossies. Or, Bessies. Her first show with us was called simply "Cows". I won't give her name, since that is advertising, but Eureka! that is one interesting cow painter.

No, kidding, you won't find her by looking up Eureka either. We ain't on line.

So when I moved to north north california, there were many followup plusses and minuses. Certainly near the top of the plusses are the cows. Humboldt County is cool re cows and, I think, steers too.. ...there is a Humboldt Beef Company that uses no antibiotics, no modified feed, no hormones, free range, and so on. And the dairy cows are in good shape too, as far as I know now. They dot the fields between my town and the next to the north and south. Well, I don't know the details on the cows in this exact place, but they seem pretty content.

Stunning really, sometimes our area looks like a dutch painting...when I go to the grocery store. Plus we have all these birds, being near a lot of marsh...

In hinduism, cow is equated to one's mother and is known as "gau mata" - Mother cow.

There are several reasons for this. The milk of the cow has been tradtionally used as a substitute for mother's milk. Cow dung, as rightly pointed out is used as fuel, but is also a source of rich manure wthout the harmful side effects of chemicals. Some people claim that cow's urine has medicinal powers, and there are some research programs currently in India which are trying to verify this fact.

According to the fable, when the gods churned the ocean to seach for "Amirt" the liquid which gives you eternal life (what is it called in English ??), cows were one of the 14 divine gifts yielded by the ocean.

It is said that once there arose a controversy among the gods and goddesses, sages and saints as to who was the greatest of all the creation. Having failed to arrive at any conclusion acceptable to all, they came to the court of the Vedas for a judgment. The Vedas declared that the greatest is one who renders the utmost service to all; and from the parameter no one is a greater benefactor than the cow. The Vedas addressed the cow as 'Aghnye' i.e., the un-assassinable, the un-assailable; and decreed that everybody should worship cow and cow-worship is the greatest worship. Seeing the importance of cow-worship the gods established themselves in different parts of cow's body. It is therefore that cow came to be known as the dwelling place of 33 crore deities.

ehBeth,
Yeah, setanta should be writing. His posts are great! As for journals, well, I've tried to write journals over the years, recording things I think of during the day while busy with life. When I sit down and pick up a pen, the whole thing becomes forced, trite and "gloopy," whatever that means.
Went to an astrologer recently to iron out my life and she said I should be journaling as meditation. When I told her my problem, she said to write through it: in a few months, it will straighten out.

ossobucco,
Boy! Would I love cow paintings! Cows relax me! Love to watch them!
There's a town called Ferndale near you? I used to live in Ferndale, Michigan!