Cows Like Beer Too

Ronald Bailey | January 10, 2005

This important story got lost in the holiday folderol, but cows like beer. A beer distributor in Iowa offered a cattle feed company skunked brew to mix with its cow chow. The result is a bunch of happy beeves that "now hesitate to eat food prepared any other way." Can a bovine 12-step program be far behind?

Comments

fyodor|1.10.05 @ 4:06PM|#

Wow. Bailey posted something irreverent. That surprises me more than that cows like beer!

|1.10.05 @ 4:24PM|#

I love Iowa!

|1.10.05 @ 4:28PM|#

So...did the cows start tipping each other?

|1.10.05 @ 4:29PM|#

fyodor,

And he deserves a break from covering environmental no-nothings as they distort science in order to justify their attempts to limit our liberty.

|1.10.05 @ 4:31PM|#

...of course that should be "know-nothings".

|1.10.05 @ 4:35PM|#

Just because I broke my New Year's resolution, to start using the Preview button, it doesn't mean that I'm not a really nice person :)

fyodor|1.10.05 @ 4:39PM|#

Would a "no-nothing" be a smiley faced new ager?

|1.10.05 @ 4:51PM|#

Kobe beef is $300 a pound because those damn things drank nothing but beer before death. Well, that and they get the massages.

And the breeding lines.

|1.10.05 @ 6:39PM|#

So...did the cows start tipping each other?

joe, that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on H&R.

The answer is that it depends on whether they're angry drunks or happy drunks.


As to 12 step programs for bovines, in another thread I suggested that hawks should say the Serenity Prayer. Apparently the cows should too.

As a Festivus observer, I say "Serenity now".

|1.10.05 @ 8:39PM|#

joe, very funny on the cow tipping!

Can you imagine the flatulence? Cows are bad enough without beer.

|1.11.05 @ 6:13AM|#

I wonder if they'd like opium poppies too. Supposedly the water buffalo in Southeast Asia enjoy chowing down on the wild poppy bulbs when they're in season.

|1.11.05 @ 10:14AM|#

Great. Now we're gonna have cow beer farts.