national geographic
issue 2017.06
why we lie
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Nowadays I have thirteen of my own and I continue to place trust in their judgement as forecasters of fortune and weather. A cow, as it gazes on you, steady and vacant, takes in more about the core of who you are than most folk imagine.
Tom Cox – Villager
people say a cow is a machine for turning grass into food a cow is a cow not a machine and if it was it’d be a machine for turning food into less food