Cow Appreciation Day – The True Meaning Behind this Day

What does Cow Appreciation Day mean?    While you may think this day is dedicated to appreciating cows in all their glory, think again.    It isn’t about saving cows’ lives.    It centers on a business plan devised by Chick-Fil-A restaurant to promote their chicken sandwiches!

The bottom line is about getting new visitors and turning them into repeat customers.

If you show up TODAY, dressed in a cow costume, black and white dots, a shirt with a cow on it, you get free food.   A free entrée.

Chick-Fil-A had the ability to make a chicken sandwich in the same amount of time it took to make a hamburger with the creation of the pressure-fryer.    And they’ve been promoting ever since 1946.

The restaurant chain seized the opportunity (and also the irony) in creating Cow Appreciation Day in the 1990’s.

While there are those who take this day to recognize and appreciate cows as sentient beings, the goal of this day is to get people into Chick-Fil-A.

Have you seen Chick-Fil-A’s latest slogan on billboards?    Their goal is for you to eat more (factory-farmed) chickens and now cows.    Factory farms are places where chickens are crammed into tiny places, pumped full of who-knows-what to make them huge.    Baby male chicks are sent through a shredding machine to kill them after they’re born.

So in honor of Cow Appreciation Day, let’s take the time to learn 13 fun facts about them.     Go out and take a scenic drive to see them or go to a sanctuary to get a better view of them up close and personal.

1. They say cows can make friends but they can hold a grudge.
2. Cows are FEMALES.
3. Cows are social animals an don’t enjoy being alone.
4. Cows are good at detecting danger as far away as 6 miles due to their strong ability to smell odors.
5. Cows only sleep 4 hours a day.
6. Cows can see in a 300 degree panoramic vision.   Hard to sneak up on one.
7. Cows stay pregnant for 9 months and are devoted to their calves.    Calves are ripped away from their moms at factory farms and moms will try to find her calf.   They will cry for each other.
8. Cows are able to go upstairs but not downstairs because their knees can’t bend properly to do so.
9. Cows can’t vomit.
10. No 2 Holstein cows have the same black and white spot pattern.
11. Cows are colorblind (red/green.)
12. Cows only have teeth on the bottom.
13. Cows eat grass by curling their tongue around it.

Tina Evangelista-Eppenstein is a television talk show host, speaker, writer, and an unabashed animal advocate.   Her love for animals and quest for the hard truth is what drives her passion for all things animals.    She hosts the television show, “A Close Up Look at Animal Welfare Issues.”   She adores her tripawd, Brody, who was a formerly abused pup who lost his leg because of cruelty inflicted upon him.    If you’d like Tina to talk to your group or have a story, please email her at tevangelistaepp@yahoo.com.     Like https:www.facebook.com/ACloseUpLookatAnimalWelfareIssues and be sure to check out AnimalWelfareIssues.com.