Quiet activist Emily the Cow will rest in Peace Abbey: fled slaughter, inspired vegans

Boston Globe ^ | April 1, 2003 | Benjamin Gedan

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HERBORN -- Eight years after escaping a Hopkinton slaughterhouse, Emily the Cow, an inarticulate but persuasive spokeswoman for vegetarianism, died in her sleep early Sunday of uterine cancer. She was 10.

Officials at the Sherborn Peace Abbey, which bought Emily in 1995, praised her yesterday for promoting vegetarianism to the center's estimated 100 weekly visitors. In her eight years in Sherborn, more than 90 guests forswore red meat, many taking the vegetarian pledge after encountering the mild-mannered activist, said Meg Randa, who runs the Peace Abbey with her husband, Lewis.

[The Red Zone]

You mean they aren't going to turn her into dog food and motorcycle jackets now?

[flying Elvis]

For some reason, I have a mental image of the reporter holding back laughter while trying to write this.

[martin_fierro]

This story is udderly ridiculous.

(OK, SOMEBODY had to say it)

[The Red Zone]

I love cows. They're delicious.

[flying Elvis]

The vegans will not be cowed by your ridicule!

[flying Elvis]

Their milking this event for everything it's worth.

[martin_fierro]

The cow's life will be permanently recalled in a life-size bronze statue to be erected above the grave....

Reached for comment, Moses was less than impressed.

[martin_fierro]

''A lot of people were touched by her,'' said Lewis Randa.

Emily was a WholeStein. < rimshot! >

[flying Elvis]

I wonder if a Rabbit was present at the funeral?

[flying Elvis]

Rabbi! Doh!

[knarf]

" .. Emily the Cow, an inarticulate but persuasive spokeswoman for vegetarianism, died in her sleep early Sunday of uterine cancer."

What, again, is the health(y)(ful) reason for becoming a vegetarian?

Isn't it something like, 'red meat causes cancer'?

[knarf]

Wait a minute ... I just got it!

She was made of red meat and that is why she developed cancer.

Stupid cow shoulda' been made of cheese (after a shower, of course)

[The Red Zone]

The Rabbit preached the funeral. The Turtles were the pallbearers.

[The Red Zone]

This is the same reason that veterinarians urge cats and dogs be spayed: a high risk of uterine cancer in old age. They should have done the same with the cow, but naw, it wasn't NATURAL. But neither is it natural for cows to get that old in the wild.

[The Red Zone]

I mean, This is the same as ONE reason...