David Gray's pictures of the week 15-1-2007

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This week's subject is cows. They have been in the news - and none too favourably. First off, the Daily Mail has run a bovine scoop about the arrival in Britain of Dundee Paradise, a calf said to have been cloned from the ear of a champion Holstein in Wisconsin. The advantage of this, as might be expected, is entirely commercial. Cloning can create huge cows producing 70 pints of milk a day (30-40% above the norm). Then, if such monstrous and unnatural gushers were not enough, there's the alarming contribution of the world's cows to global warming and the end of civilisation as we (and the Daily Mail) know it. Because of their four-chambered stomachs, they can fart up to 600 litres of methane daily. That's enough, apparently, to fill 40 party balloons. What with all that milk and fart gas, it's going to be quite a party. A mad world, and we're not talking just about the cows.

In a Normandy field, April 2005 (image 2602-319)

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