COWS AND THE PROGRESS THEY HAVE BROUGHT TO HUMANITY. VOLUME 3For thousands of years, our ancestors basically lived off whatever they could hunt, fish, or gather. Until, at some point, someone must have looked at certain animals and thought that
maybe it was a hell of a lot more practical to keep the food close to home than spend all day chasing it through the wilderness.
The domestication of animals and the development of livestock farming were among those changes that may seem simple from our modern perspective, but helped completely transform the way early societies were organized.
It was no longer just about getting meat.
Animals could provide milk, hides, power to work the land, transportation, fertilizer, and could even become a form of wealth. Owning livestock meant having resources that could be maintained, reproduced, and traded.
And among all those animals, cattle eventually came to occupy a particularly important place. For centuries, cows have fed entire populations, helped people work the land, supported rural economies, and accompanied humans throughout practically the entire development of civilization.
It’s curious to think that something as ordinary as a glass of milk, a piece of cheese, or a steak has behind it
thousands of years of coexistence between our species and an animal that ended up becoming one of the great silent protagonists of our history.
Generation after generation, humanity kept finding new ways to make use of everything a cow could provide: Meat. Milk. Leather. Labor. Fertilizer.
And just when it seemed that, after all those thousands of years, we had finally explored absolutely every possibility...
the 21st century decided to prove that we still had some imagination left.
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AUGUST IS SLIPPING AWAYAugust officially ends on Monday, but we’ve decided to say goodbye to it today, the way it deserves, because the end of August should always be marked with
a minute of silence, a cold beer and a distant stare into the horizon.
August isn’t just a month. August is a way of looking at life. It’s the month we automatically associate with holidays, even if it’s been years since we had the kind of summer break we remember from childhood. It means waking up without an alarm, having no idea what day it is, eating at ridiculous hours and discovering that a shower, a pair of flip-flops and a clean T-shirt can be considered perfectly acceptable formalwear.
For a few weeks, even people without a penny to their name get to feel rich. Not because their bank balance suddenly has more zeros, but because they have something far more valuable:
time in which nobody is telling them what to do.
You can be sitting on your balcony in a plastic chair, drinking a can of beer while listening to your neighbor argue with his wife, and still feel as though life is smiling at you. Because you don’t have to work tomorrow. Because you don’t need to set the alarm. Because for a few hours, the world can keep spinning without you having to take part in it.
But everything comes to an end. The suitcases go back into the closet, the flip-flops return to the bottom of the shoe rack and the alarm clock reappears on the bedside table with the same asshole attitude it has always had. September arrives loaded with schedules, unanswered emails, school runs, traffic and people claiming that this time they really are going to start taking the gym seriously.
Most people will already have to start looking ahead to
August 2027 to fantasize about that brief period of the year when we can pretend we’re actually in control of our own lives. There are twelve months to go, but there’s no point thinking about it too much. We just have to keep surviving one week at a time, one public holiday at a time and one beer at a time.
Today, we raise a glass to August. To those who traveled to the other side of the world and those who never left their neighborhood. To those who slept in five-star hotels and those who set up an inflatable pool on the terrace. Because holidays aren’t always about going somewhere far away. Sometimes they’re simply about
nobody being able to force you to be anywhere else.
Until next year, August. You didn’t last long, you cost us far too much and, as always, you disappeared just as we were starting to get used to being alive.
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