NYTimes.com Article: A Cow's Life: Many Moos, and Moods

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> NYTimes.com Article: A Cow's Life: Many

> Moos, and Moods

> Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:17:41 -0400 (EDT)

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> A Cow's Life: Many Moos, and Moods

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> July 27, 2002

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To the Editor:

>

> Nicholas D. Kristof, in " Interview With a Humanoid "

> (column, July 23), expresses surprised skepticism

> that a

> cow could have a personality. I spent summers on my

> grandmother's small subsistence farm in Missouri,

> where

> there were three cows.

>

> Those cows definitely did have distinctive and

> distinctly

> different personalities. One was smarter than the

> other

> two, able to learn quickly, and one showed a great

> deal of

> curiosity about what was going on around her, while

> the

> third one was pretty much the stereotypical bland

> cow.

>

> We don't like to think that cows are anything more

> than

> ambulatory carcasses waiting to be slaughtered for

> our

> eating enjoyment, but in fact cows have intelligence

> and

> other personality traits, including the ability to

> display

> affection.

>

> Ask any 4-H'er who has hand-raised a calf from

> infancy.

> Cows are much more " human " than we are generally

> willing to

> admit.  

> JOSEPH TURNER

> Portland, Ore., July 24, 2002

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