Why Farmers Treat Cows Like People
The researchers aren’t quite sure why this happens, but they have their guesses — they think giving a cow a name (and using it) is a proxy for kindness. Dr. Douglas told NBC News that “if you call a cow by name, it indicates that perhaps you talk to her more, perhaps you consider her more of an individual, perhaps you have more of a one-to-one relationship.” Cows which are treated more like people, they surmise, are less stressed and more likely to produce more milk.
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