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  Lovely post, I've had the same thoughts – even wrote a poem about some similar cows in an Irish field: https://francesmacaulayforde.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/for-all-vegetarians/
  Spinning around Co. Waterford, it's very easy to pass by fields of cattle with a second glance, as they are so common.
  Standing at the gate of this field of young heifers the other day, I was thinking of a teacher from inner city Dublin once told me of how hardly any of her pupils had ever seen cows or sheep grazing in a field in the countryside. In fact, the only kids who had ever seen them were those who had gone to visit their father's who were in prisons down the country and they had seen the animals grazing as they looked out the windows of the train as they made occasional journeys to see them.
  Most of the pupils had no idea where milk came from; apart from out of a carton and meat was something that was packaged on supermarket shelves or displayed in butcher shops.