September 04, 2008

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For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer.

Quote from an article in The Times on the Dexter, an Irish breed of mini-cow.

Above is Pieter Aertsen’s Butcher’s Stall with the Flight into Egypt.

Both via Pruned.

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