Winter feeding

Amazing to think that cows were thought of warmly as an essential part of the rural community until very recently. Now we know that their impact on the world is far from benign. Parts of Britain grow good grassland for some of the year, but here in the East, at least, rainfall is barely adequate. The methane cows dispense with gay abandon is damaging to the earth's atmosphere; obtaining protein from beef is a most inefficient way of allocating land resources to feed humans; it is rather strange, now we are beginning to think about such things, that we drink the milk of another species after we have been weaned. And then there are the animal rights objections and concerns about us imbibing second hand antibiotics. I wonder how many more opportunities for photographing cows I shall have.