Talk about milking a story for all it's worth: police captured a 400-pound runaway cow who has been on the lam for the past five months. According to FoxCT, it took 15 people to capture Wanda the runaway cow at a farm in Oxford, CT yesterday. The steaks were high for those involved, who did everything they could to steer clear of hurting the animal, who had escaped capture twice before thanks to her deer friends! more ›

Another cow moves on to that great barnyard in the sky today, as word comes from the Prospect Park Zoo that their beloved cow, Aggie, has passed away. more ›

As unbearable as last week's heat wave was, at least humans are able to sweat. Unlike dairy cows—and NY State dairy farmers say their cows have been too uncomfortable. Douglas Aukema, of Chenango Forks farm, told the Press and Star Bulletin that his farm's milk production was "down by a third, probably, because of the heat stress." more ›

Would you eat a cow, and then wear its skin? Food just went from farm to table to your closet (we await the inevitable moniker for this group of foodie fashionistas: foodista?). According to the NY Post, Marlow & Sons in Williamsburg is selling leather goods constructed from the tanned hides of the locally sourced cows and pigs that make it to their menu. more ›

The city has come a long way from the time when cows roamed the city's underground tunnels looking for an angry fix. Now, the only cow left in Manhattan is named Othello, and lives on a diet of hay and pellets at the Central Park Zoo. The 14-year-old Dexter cow is also probably the luckiest cow in the country, and not just because he's living on some prime real estate. “Pretty much anything over a year would be abnormal for this kind of cow, because most would be slaughtered long before now,” New York City zoos director Jeff Sailer told the Wall Street Journal (paywall). more ›

A bull and cow somehow escaped from their farm and ended up roaming Long Island for a few hours. According to Newsday (subscription required), they were "dashing across backyards, jumping over fences, cavorting on train tracks and defying the herding heroics of the locals trying to capture them," as well as "grazing serenely as drivers on Montauk Highway looked on." more ›

Swearing that a drink of raw milk beats a trip to the doctor, a Brooklyn woman has gotten in with an underground network that traffics the unhomogenized, unpasteurized product. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Hannah Springer and her fellow milk smugglers meet at secret "drop-off" points around the city, to collect bottles driven down from farms in Pennsylvania. Like many converts, Springer had her first taste after reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, and now she's addicted. “I no longer have to take thyroid meds, which every doctor said I would be on for the rest of my life,” said the mom, who feeds two glasses of the stuff to her 18-month old son daily. But if its curative properties are what she says, why does the FDA call it "inherently dangerous"? more ›

While investigating former police officer Robert Melia Jr.'s alleged sexual assault on three underage girls, detectives discovered a video in his home that shows him sexually molesting cows in 2006. So animal-cruelty charges were added to the list, but on Wednesday a judge dropped the charges because prosecutors didn't "present enough evidence to jurors that Melia's alleged actions tormented the animals." more ›

Now, it's almost common place (though incredibly exciting and bugging) when a cow escapes a slaughterhouse. But, now, after seeing WABC 7's footage of cows on the loose in New Jersey, it seems that cows just love the road! A number of dairy cows were found on Route 202 and Branchburg police had to channel Old McDonald and round them up. This video is pretty hypnotizing—the cows approach a police cruiser, check it out, and then wander around. Eventually they make it back from the highway to what looks like a farm. more ›

Some follow-up about the story that riveted a city yesterday afternoon: The cow that escaped a Queens halal slaughterhouse is doing fine, seems to be headed upstate to a sanctuary, and has been given the name Molly. But one barber who witnessed the heifer's break for freedom—and the cops chasing her— told the Daily News, "It was bugging. I was worried. I'm not used to seeing stuff like that." Another witness told the Post that the cops said they chased Molly for ten blocks before managing to catch her in a yard. Naturally, the tabloids have the great quotes from residents and workers in the South Jamaica neighborhood: more ›

News of free, MSG-laden grilled chicken appears to have found its way into a Queens slaughterhouse, where one cow decided that all she had was one shot to make a run for it and somehow escaped onto the streets of Jamaica, Queens. After being loose for around an hour, the NYPD's Mounted Unit was called in and a trailer normally used for horses brought in to corral her. Initial reports were that she was being taken back to the slaughterhouse, it turns out that she'll be spared and likely brought upstate to Farm Sanctuary. A police spokeswoman told Daily Intel, "We always think that once they've escaped, they've earned the right to go free." more ›

Last night, a reader told us, "A friend who was on 111st & Jamaica Ave... saw a bull running on the streets chased by NYPD." Well, it was actually a cow (Newsmap called it a "baby cow"), and the Post reports, "The brazen bovine first showed herself on Atlantic Avenue in Woodhaven, Queens, being chased by an urban cowboy - who disappeared along with the animal before cops arrived" around 9 a.m. more ›

Save room for tongue! Bubby’s restaurant, the longtime Tribeca haunt of lettuce-fed models, will now be serving beef exclusively derived from grass-fed steers. Cattle raised on a grass, as opposed to the unnatural method of grain or corn, are much healthier and yield beef lower in saturated fat. While the trend is nothing new, what sets Bubby’s apart is that owner Ron Silver has committed to using every single part of the steer, from “tongue to tail.” more ›