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==== Extract of the talk given during [[The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest|The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest]]’s dinner<br>in October 2019 at [http://www.corridorprojectspace.com/artfood/ Corridor project space] in Amsterdam.
====Extract of the talk given during [[The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest|The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest]]’s dinner<br>in October 2019 at [http://www.corridorprojectspace.com/artfood/ Corridor project space] in Amsterdam.====
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“The cow’s digestive system is a wonderful machine: it allows cows to get energy from an undisputed resource that humans can’t digest: grass. 1/4 of Earth’s land area being grasslands it allowed herds of ruminants to thrive across the Old World, even before mankind domesticated them.
“The cow’s digestive system is a wonderful machine: it allows cows to get energy from an undisputed resource that humans can’t digest: grass. 1/4 of Earth’s land area being grasslands it allowed herds of ruminants to thrive across the Old World, even before mankind domesticated them.