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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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      14. While the cow was able to reshape Europe, it's plans were frustrated in other regions of the world.

      2 replies 4 retweets 15 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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      14. North Africa, where humans also became lactose tolerant, lacked sufficient grazing capacity for massive dairy production.

      3 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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      15. In India, the religious mystique surrounding cows joined with lactose intolerance. In China, lactose intolerance alone did the job.

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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      16. Did humans domesticate the cow, or did cows domesticate humans?

      7 replies 5 retweets 19 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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      17. Factory farming is horrible, but perhaps inevitable product of longtime relationship between cows & industrialization.

      6 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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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

      1 reply 4 retweets 9 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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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.

      7 replies 9 retweets 17 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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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)

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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      21. Also, not to spoil the joke, but I was doing a parody of Jared Diamond style environmental meta-narratives.

      5 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014
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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.

      1 reply 3 retweets 24 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Nov 2014

      23. But I'll save the story of my dad's mid-life crisis and the cow for another night.

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        1. charlie phillips‏ @fimbriate 17 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Some folks i know exude a certain bovine tranquility.

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        1. Sara Simpson‏ @rerevisited 17 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet There is a TED talk that talks that way about corn. Getting us to clear land, destroy pests for it. We do its bidding!

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        2. Carl Wilson‏ @carlzoilus 17 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet There was a great NY lecture in the 2002 @trampolinehall tour where someone argued cows were no longer animals, but machines.

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        3. Aaron Peck‏ @peck_aaron 17 Nov 2014
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          @carlzoilus @HeerJeet @trampolinehall "Every machine contains a cowpath" - Kenneth Burke.

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        2. Bec‏ @beccanalia 20 Apr 2019
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          @threadreaderapp unroll

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 20 Apr 2019
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          Sorry this Tweet is too old, Twitter does not allow to retrieve it. I'm really sorry about that 😕 You can find all the unrolls for this user here: https://threadreaderapp.com/user/HeerJeet  🤖

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