I just coincidentally got this insightful look at the meat industry in this
morning's email:


An International Look on Farming...        AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:  You
have two cows.  You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of
four cows.  You are surprised when the cow drops dead.     A SOUTH AFRICAN
CORPORATION:  You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three
cows.     A ZIMBABWEAN CORPORATION:  A farmer has two cows.  You take over
his farm, eat both cows and wait for the international community to supply
more.     A JAPANESE CORPORATION:  You have two cows.  You re-design them
so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times
the milk.    You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and
market them World-Wide.     A GERMAN CORPORATION:  You have two cows.  You
re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk
themselves.     A BRITISH CORPORATION:  You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:  You have two cows, but you don't know where they
are.  You break for lunch.     A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:  You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.  You count them again and
learn you have 42 cows.  You count them again and learn you have 12 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.     A SWISS
CORPORATION:  You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you.  You charge
others for storing them.     A CHINESE CORPORATION:  You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.  You claim full employment, high bovine
productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.     AN
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION:  You have two cows.  The one on the left is kinda
cute...

ginny

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