HUNTINGTON - Ambling through life on Little Oaks Farm in Huntington, cow number 17 - affectionately known to its owners as Wendy - continues to live out its daily life blissfully unaware that its sole purpose is to one day be slaughtered and eaten by humans.
Wendy, along with 19 others from its herd, spends a typical day chewing on clumps of grass, walking slowly up and down a 15-acre field with no real examination of its self-worth and meaning.
"Mostly, Wendy just stands around all day not really doing all that much," said farmer and landowner Julia Ramsey. "She just muddles along without really ever questioning anything or seeking out core truths about her environment. The fact that her carcass is about to go on display in aisle four of Walmart is completely lost on her."
Barely acknowledging the swarm of flies that hover daily around her bulky, 400lb body, Wendy will occasionally stop for a quick drink of water, before spending long periods of time just aimlessly sniffing the wet soil beneath her.
Meanwhile, after defecating next to the hind legs of cow number 12 this morning, Wendy indifferently followed her master into a cattle van to be driven to a processing plant, where she will spend the last remaining hours of her pointless existence staring blankly at a fence.
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