My last post covered some of my experiences working on Cobham Park Farm in Virginia one summer. Here I’ll share some of my experiences working with the cows. Cows are God’s creatures and as such we should give them their due. Having said that, I will tell you that they are stupid—sort of large, non-flying, tasty stink bugs. I happen to be a meat-eater. On an intellectual, theoretical level, I suppose I am against eating animals. Animals that are bred for human consumption are submitted to a rotten life and an inglorious death. Still, I really enjoy plowing into a thick, juicy steak. I’m not proud of it, but there you are. Unlike humans, or at least most humans, cows seem to have little self-awareness. But they are like humans in that they lack an understanding of their fate. What is clear to humans, namely, that we raise cows to be rendered into hamburgers and other delicious by-products, they just don’t get. While we prepare them for the slaughterhouse, they