City Cows

24 Jan 2011 - It is almost three months in Malaysia and so far the country has been full of surprises. It is a bit difficult to follow complicated local politics, but some people are not afraid to speak their minds. Residents from the Bandar Bahru Sentul area close to KL want to banish cows from their neighborhood, because they affect traffic flow when crossing the road to a ground to graze. But the owner of the cows is locking horns with the neighborhood, and he insists their claim is just a load of bull. He said "I have workers who monitor the cows every day. My cows do not wander off aimlessly." It must be rather stressful for these city cows, and they have already limited space close to car exhausts and skyscrapers. The Klang Valley is no more the idyllic valley for grazing cows as there are hardly any meadows for them to laze or graze the day away. I like to stand up for these marginalized city cows, who remain unappreciated for all their milk, butter, cheese, yoghurt, cream, hamburgers and probably your pair of shoes. Cows have rights too.