this is not really 'screwy news' unless you count bulls 'screwy-ing cows' which is where much of the animal protein humans consume in order to stay alive comes from. it is really a story about rural vs. urban societies. there are many things wrong about this picture and this story, both factual and intellectual, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, i will try to keep it to less than 1,000...
3 cows stranded on patch of land after powerful New Zealand earthquake | Fox News
Three New Zealand cows looked like they could use a little help Monday after an earthquake triggered landslides all around them and left them stranded on a small island of grass.
this is not 3 cows, cows are mature breeding females, who bear calves. this is only two cows, and one calf. this immediately tells you somethings, but i will get to that later, first some terminology.
cow: breeding female who each year produces a calf who can be sold to market and fed to slaughter weight and turned into steaks, roasts, or hamburger. if a cow fails to produce a saleable calf in any year, she becomes too expensive to keep and feed for another chance next year and she is hamburger.
calf: there are two kinds of calves, male and female, there are no trans or bi or pan or whatever lgbtq calves, they are male or female and they have different purposes and treatments. male calves get their balls cut off and become steers so that the feed (grazed grass, harvested hay, corn, whatever) you pay to put in them turns into pounds of weight and doesn't go to fuel their sexual desires (this is an easy procedure), they typically weigh 550# at weaning from their mother. then they get fed up to become steaks, roasts, and hamburger. female calves do no get spayed, it is too expensive the procedure vs. the extra 50#, so you just wean them from their mother and sell them to market to be fed up to steaks, roasts, or hamburger, they only typically weigh 500# at weaning from their mother because 1/10th of their feed fuel energy went into growing their sexual desires to functionality.
heifer: a female calf who was not sold to market to be slaughtered, usually because her mother showed excellent breeding characteristics, so she is held back as a 'replacement' heifer, to rotate in to the herd to replace the bad mothers who didn't produce a calf and get sold for hamburger. a heifer does not become a cow until she successfully produces a calf, or else she becomes hamburger.
bull: a mature breeding male, whose job is to screw cows, usually about one bull per 25 cows, it is hard to keep more than 25 girlfriends full and happy (for bovines, for humans this number is much less, somewhere around less than one on average). this is a male calf whose breeding characteristics justifies not cutting his balls off and selling him for hamburger, instead holding him back as a replacement bull who you will eventually give 25 girlfriends to service, good luck mr. bull. his lifespan is about 4 productive years, max, before he breaks his 'tool' and can't service cows or else gets in a fight with another bull who want to service his cows or gets struck by lighting or whatever, then he turns into hamburger too.
so the bottom line is you produce and you perform or eventually you die. which when you stop to think about it isn't really all that much different for cows than it is for humans.
obviously the word count is going to exceed 1,000 words and this is just background without addressing the specifics of that sad new zealand "3" cow picture. maybe call this part 1.