COWS ARE COOL: LOVE ‘EM!
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The Path of Prosperity
Little Girl Has Better Idea Than Big Leaders
Keely is a small, 9 year old girl from the city of Mankato in Minnesota, USA. Her birthday wish is to help starving villages. With eyes closed, Keely Schuck’s words could be those of a humanitarian, a sage, a saint. But open, they are simply the words of a blushing third-grader with a single birthday wish:
“I’ve always wanted to do something meaningful in the world.”
As Keely turns 9, her wish is coming true. To celebrate her birthday day, Keely decided to forgo gifts, presents and packages. And instead, she asked friends and family to help her purchase dairy cows for starving villages worldwide.
Because cow, if not killed and eaten up, is a mobile food factory! A single cow produces many calves, in addition to manure for fertilizer and several gallons a milk each day for sustenance.
The Path of Prosperity
Little Girl Has Better Idea Than Big Leaders
Keely is a small, 9 year old girl from the city of Mankato in Minnesota, USA. Her birthday wish is to help starving villages. With eyes closed, Keely Schuck’s words could be those of a humanitarian, a sage, a saint. But open, they are simply the words of a blushing third-grader with a single birthday wish:
“I’ve always wanted to do something meaningful in the world.”
As Keely turns 9, her wish is coming true. To celebrate her birthday day, Keely decided to forgo gifts, presents and packages. And instead, she asked friends and family to help her purchase dairy cows for starving villages worldwide.
Because cow, if not killed and eaten up, is a mobile food factory! A single cow produces many calves, in addition to manure for fertilizer and several gallons a milk each day for sustenance.
MMMMMOOOOOO!
I think that cows are so cute. They are so calm and they lick up their food and then bite it which makes it so easy to feed them. They are so cool and I love cows. I want to live in Switzerland because the Swiss love cows. Cows Rule!
~ Anna Relton, Norway
As she explains her birthday request from a sitting chair in her family’s living room, her voice hardly carries beyond the coffee table. But even in tones faint and plain, her message will be heard across oceans.
Just a few weeks ago, Keely began telling friends and family about her idea of raising $500 for a hunger-relief organization where donors actually purchase food to be delivered to poverty-stricken villages around the world. The organization’s goal is to provide sustainable solutions to world hunger.
Just a few weeks ago, Keely began telling friends and family about her idea of raising $500 for a hunger-relief organization where donors actually purchase food to be delivered to poverty-stricken villages around the world. The organization’s goal is to provide sustainable solutions to world hunger.
Cows rock!
Cows have been my favorite for ever. I collect tons of cow stuff and my friends always give me cow things. I think cows are the coolest animals, and are so cute.
~Susan Hernandez, Glasgow
To help meet her original goal, Keely wrote and produced a short movie about her birthday wish (featuring her two younger sisters in supporting roles) and posted it on YouTube. Within days, the video had garnered nearly 600 views, and she quickly met her $500 goal.
Now, she’s hoping to raise $1,500 — enough for three cows.
“I didn’t know what I wanted for my birthday,” she said. “I don’t need anything. I don’t want anything. ... I liked the idea of helping someone who needs help.”
Kristi Schuck, Keely’s mom, says she wasn’t surprised by her daughter’s decision. When she was only 3 years old, she remembers Keely asking Santa Claus to bring her “love” for Christmas. And another time, following a school field trip, Kristi remembers Keely remarking that she “wanted a purpose in life.”
Friends, family and even strangers have responded to Keely’s decision to make a difference. Keely smiles with satisfaction, “I’ll remember this birthday as the year I helped change some people’s lives.”
Yes, donating dairy cows would be the best way to change lives. Cow is the pathway to prosperity and best form of economic development. In her life time, a cow gives thousands of gallons of milk, many calves and urine and dung which are highly useful for a village economy.
Basically living cows are better than dead ones. We are slaughtering cows to get beef. But cows give so much daily. It is just our obstinacy and ignorance that makes us kill and eat her.
In 1971 Stewart Odend’hal of the University of Missouri conducted a detailed study of cows in Bengal and found that far from depriving humans of food, they ate only inedible remains of harvested crops (rice hulls, tops of sugarcane, etc.) and grass. “Basically”, he said, “the cattle convert items of little direct human value into products of immediate utility.” This should put to rest the myth that people are starving in India because they will not kill their cows.
If allowed to live, cows produce High quality, protein rich foods in amounts that stagger the imagination. It is abundantly clear that cows (living ones) are one of mankind’s most valuable food resources.
Little girl Kelly knows it but do our world leaders know it also?
Now, she’s hoping to raise $1,500 — enough for three cows.
“I didn’t know what I wanted for my birthday,” she said. “I don’t need anything. I don’t want anything. ... I liked the idea of helping someone who needs help.”
Kristi Schuck, Keely’s mom, says she wasn’t surprised by her daughter’s decision. When she was only 3 years old, she remembers Keely asking Santa Claus to bring her “love” for Christmas. And another time, following a school field trip, Kristi remembers Keely remarking that she “wanted a purpose in life.”
Friends, family and even strangers have responded to Keely’s decision to make a difference. Keely smiles with satisfaction, “I’ll remember this birthday as the year I helped change some people’s lives.”
Yes, donating dairy cows would be the best way to change lives. Cow is the pathway to prosperity and best form of economic development. In her life time, a cow gives thousands of gallons of milk, many calves and urine and dung which are highly useful for a village economy.
Basically living cows are better than dead ones. We are slaughtering cows to get beef. But cows give so much daily. It is just our obstinacy and ignorance that makes us kill and eat her.
In 1971 Stewart Odend’hal of the University of Missouri conducted a detailed study of cows in Bengal and found that far from depriving humans of food, they ate only inedible remains of harvested crops (rice hulls, tops of sugarcane, etc.) and grass. “Basically”, he said, “the cattle convert items of little direct human value into products of immediate utility.” This should put to rest the myth that people are starving in India because they will not kill their cows.
If allowed to live, cows produce High quality, protein rich foods in amounts that stagger the imagination. It is abundantly clear that cows (living ones) are one of mankind’s most valuable food resources.
Little girl Kelly knows it but do our world leaders know it also?
Please Don’t Shout!
Being kind to farm animals isn’t just a moral duty - according to the CIWF Trust delegates; there is something in it for us, too. Cows, for example, produce significantly more milk if their handlers talk to them gently rather than shouting and pushing them around.
“The handlers don’t have to be really mean and hit the cows,” said Edmund Pajor of Purdue University, US. “It’s just a slap on the rump in the way that many farmers would. But the cows don’t like it and it makes a real difference. It helps send a message about treating animals in a proper way. A number of dairy farms now have signs up saying ‘please don’t shout at the cows’.”