13. To paraphrase Diogenes, the farmer thinks he owns the cow, but it's the cow that owns the farmer.
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14. While the cow was able to reshape Europe, it's plans were frustrated in other regions of the world.
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14. North Africa, where humans also became lactose tolerant, lacked sufficient grazing capacity for massive dairy production.
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15. In India, the religious mystique surrounding cows joined with lactose intolerance. In China, lactose intolerance alone did the job.
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16. Did humans domesticate the cow, or did cows domesticate humans?
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17. Factory farming is horrible, but perhaps inevitable product of longtime relationship between cows & industrialization.
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18. Both factory farming and the climate crisis (where cow flatulence plays a role) argue that our relationship with nature is out of whack
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19. Together, cows and humans have made the modern world; together, we'll have to solve the crisis we've created.
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20. I should add that this cow theory of history comes in large part from a humor article in The Idler magazine late 1980s (not online alas)
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21. Also, not to spoil the joke, but I was doing a parody of Jared Diamond style environmental meta-narratives.
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22. Perhaps not completely tangential, but my dad once had a mid-life crisis which led him to buy a cow.
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