This week's TIME Magazine Essay (last page) is by Garrison Keillor.  It
starts off very amusingly...."In the pasture, where our burdock grows,
Holsteins recline, chewing their cud.  Cud is food previously eaten, then
regurgitated into the mouth for further chewing.  This is how a cow's
digestive system works, how we get milk.  A Holstein lies in the pasture,
eating vomit, thinking about her career.....So Holsteins are trapped in
their profession, which is declining anyway, and someday a brilliant
geneticist will engineer an enzyme that can be thrown into a tank of silage
to produce a nonfat miracle milk that makes people younger, and the Holstein
breed will face a bleak future, perhaps as a game animal for the slower
hunter...."

Parts of this essay are pretty amusing, but it degenerates towards the end.
Worth a peak in the grocery line, though!  Formula -- highly modified cow
vomit!  Let's see, that makes the "land of milk and honey" actually the
"land of cow vomit and bee barf."  Chuckle, chuckle...

Kathy Dettwyler