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My World: holy cow!

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Wolfgang Plattner

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I keep an eye on you!

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Jerome Marot

Jerome Marot

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Tom dinning said:
How can you tell they are Swiss, Jerome? Is it because they are neat and boring?
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Cows are never boring.

European cows wear ear tags. This is supposed to allow traceability of the milk and meat products done to one individual cows, preventing -purely as a theoretical example- that one would get -say- horse meat in ground beef for lasagna, etc... But I digress.

The ear tags bear a country symbol (here CH, which stands for Switzerland - Confederatio Helvetica) and a set of numbers telling the farmer and the individual cow in the herd. The tags are machine-readable. Conspiracy theorists would probably believe that this is a plan from the NSA to control the world's meat production by photography. Conversely, posting a picture of a cow in the Internet is a bit like posting a picture of a model with her name and social security number...
 
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