We spend more on cows than the poor.
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A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.
With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.