Clever Cow

Filmed from 'Open Hand Cafe' in Varanasi

update: Japanese Fuji Television featured my video (from Varanasi) on their program 'TV Zoo'. It's nice to know this clever cow got some recognition. With the payment i received i'll help feed the cows that roam the streets in search of food.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• india
• varanasi
• assi
• ghat
• cow
• water
• 'open
• hand'

[peacerebelgirl]

so true. the sad thing is the 'holy' cow is considered holy only when they are producing milk but once they dry up they are banished from their home and have to fend for themselves. they roam the streets in search of food and respite from snarls of traffic and people who are mean to them. the thing i've most often seen them eating is cardboard boxes, the holy cow...

[1221solstice2012]

Brainless, soulless automatons, many extremely ignorant and heartless people say. Animals are wonderful and should never be used/abused/eaten by us. There are always alternatives and we should always find them and utilize them...after all, we are human beings.

[peacerebelgirl]

@1221solstice2012 do you know about 'the gentle barn' or 'farm sanctuary'? amazing people rescuing animals. i adore animals; glad you do too ;)

[peacerebelgirl]

@1221solstice2012 ohh. i see you know of gentle barn well. blessings!

[1221solstice2012]

@peacerebelgirl Fantastic people, and so are you...to love animals is the noblest attribute of mankind, someone famous said. Hugs from Laura

[peacerebelgirl]

@1221solstice2012 i agree Laura. thank you for loving animals as much as i do. hugs back to you ;)

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[DeusVivit]

@1221solstice2012 You have only proved my point. The only thing you are good at is insulting people. Like I said last time go think about it before you go off and tell people they are horrible for eating meat (cows). Your anger is kinda cute in a trolling sort of way :)

[1221solstice2012]

@DeusVivit You disgusting fool, I told you not to bother me with your desperate attempts at rationalizations again; anyone with a brain will see the insanity and deep-seated ignorance of your moronic excuses. Go take a swim in a manure lagoon and do not bother me again.

[DeusVivit]

@1221solstice2012 Your argument is invalid cows do not have "natural" predators they are a man made species from aurochs which is extinct now but it came from europe. I stand by what I said if I don't eat them then they will get out of control. In today's society there are no big wolf packs running around where cows are being breed they are hiding in the forests. Think before you go off and tell people they are fat for eating cows.

[1221solstice2012]

@DeusVivit That's so idiotic. These animals are forcibly bred by the millions daily to feed the faces of human gluttons; stop the demand, stop the profits, stop the breeding, close the disgusting polluting disease-ridden animal farms; nature keeps its own balance with predators who must eat meat to survive. No one should have to say this, do not invade my inbox with this rotten trash argument or any other nonsense again, thanks.

[DeusVivit]

@1221solstice2012 If I didnt eat them then they would over populate the world.

[wasy35]

Such a beautiful cow.

[1221solstice2012]

@omgitsaaron Why are you saying all that to me? That's as common as dirt, except most people don't pretend to mourn over the sentience of plants as you do, lol. Plants are immobile for a reason...as animals are mobile for a reason, until trapped in filthy confinement by "humans" to feed a sick & gluttonous appetite; and you kill MORE plants to feed those animals. I eat lots of good food; you fail to mention all the great varieties of produce including nuts and seeds and so many amazing fruits.

[omgitsaaron]

@omgitsaaron support it. Being an advocate of alternative & replenishable energy, that would probably be as "green" as you could get :)

In the meantime, however, I'm still going to enjoy fried chicken

[omgitsaaron]

@omgitsaaron bean curds & vegetables for the rest of my life. And aren't vegetables living things too? Is it ok to rip them out of their home & eat them? Do they not coun't because they aren't capable of expressing emotions? We can't live on a diet of rocks & water, eventually all living creatures who don't use photosynthesis eat thing that are/were alive. If we could one day learn how to incorporate the gene/s that are responsible for photosynthesis into our bodies then I would definitely