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Return of … Dung!

Pradeep Aradhya
3 min readSep 14, 2021

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Jan Langbein, at the Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Germany, hopes that ‘in a few years all cows will go to a toilet’. Photograph: Westend61/Getty Images

I really thought I had written a singular and seminal treatise on dung but new dribs and drabs … er dumps even … of dung have emerged. And yes … I have taken it upon myself to exuberate and express dodo on this new dung news!

So it turns out, the damn Germans are potty training cows. I kid you not. Read ’em and weephttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/cows-potty-trained-in-experiment-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions

Oh where shall I start?

If this some strange new … hmm crap concentration camp? Will the damn Nazi’s drop this obsession with gassing. Should we just leave them to their machinations and say under our breath “better bovine Hitlers than human ones?” Do our poor milk providers have to sieg heil salute with their tails out and straight during their emissions … er eliminations … er excretions?

Ok ok lets stop before someone says I am being insensitive … to the cows … or to the jewish … or oh God … to der GerManics!

This is definitely an interesting experiment to stem greenhouse gas emissions and kudos to Jan Langbein and FBN Germany for undertaking to train calves to use the … Gott in Himmel … “MooLoo”! Kudos also to the calves themselves for learning and being intelligent enough to be potty trained. How wass dis even accomplished? Is there a Hans on Jan’s team who is telling ze…

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Pradeep Aradhya
Pradeep Aradhya

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