Poll of the Day > More than half of young Americans HAVE NEVER SEEN A COW IN REAL LIFE

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https://www.travelandleisure.com/animals/survey-americans-never-seen-a-cow-in-real-life

how are there so many people that havent seen a cow

how do you not see a cow ever? have they seen ducks???

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When I was a kid, we spent about a year? maybe two? renting a farmhouse that was surrounded on three sides by pasture for cows. So... yes.

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Don't they see a cow whenever they look at a burger?

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If i hadnt moved to Texas i might not have but yes. Lot of farming families around where i live now.

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One of my exes was a cowgirl, so I've seen many cows!

I've milked a cow before.
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As a Kiwi, I've lived on a property that was surrounded by cows every morning

The smell of cow shit is awful to wake up to every morning
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I live in America's dairy land. Kind of hard not to unless you refuse to tip toe out of the city limits.

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I live in the South

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CarefreeDude posted...

Don't they see a cow whenever they look at a burger?

If it's a really, really big burger, maybe.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I live in the South

Same here, in the middle of a cow pasture.

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I've seen a cow, but not up close. My parents had friends that owned a farm but they never had cows, surprisingly difficult farm animals to take care of compared to pigs, chickens, lambs, and turkeys (all of which they had). They used to buy a pig every year from the friend, one pig once butchered could fill a full size freezer and give us enough pork for pretty much the entire year.

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Had an aunt and uncle who had a farm that my aunt's (via marriage) family had had since the 1870s that was given to her family for free in a Homestead Act and it was passed down in her family so I spent time there as a kid and grew up around livestock.

Their kids now live on that land so it's been in the family for over 140 plus years at least and again that land was not purchased because my aunt's family received it in a Homestead Act. Her fam is from Ireland.

I only mentioned the Homestead Act part because some White people tend to think the Government never gave White people anything and that's simply not true. One of my uncles started a business that still stands today and he got the money from a GI Bill loan. He served in the Korean War so we need to understand that we have all been lied to and told that it's those people who want to live off the government tit and that's not true.

FDR's New Deal did the same thing in that it put wealth or at the least the chance to attain some wealth at the hands of White people in the 1930s and 1940s and now today people act as if they did something all on their own and that's simply not true.

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My roommate had a cow.



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Don't have a cow, man!

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I find that news surprising, but I guess it also depends on where a person grows up and what their socioeconomic status is like. I'm pretty sure I had school field trips to farms, I know my family took trips to farms, when I was visiting my relatives in the old country they had a farm, and there are some farms within my area (some of which have livestock, some don't)


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Yeah, there were like 5 of them surrounding my car one time.

Lots of cows around here. And even a small herd of buffalo.


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captpackrat posted...

Lots of cows around here. And even a small herd of buffalo.

great white buffalo

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Aren't cows practically everywhere outside of cities and suburbs? Have these kids never gone on a single road trip? My work takes me to a semi-rural area every day and I see many, many farm animals. People keep goats as pets.

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Whargarble posted...

People keep goats as pets.

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Emergency meat

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Whargarble posted...

Aren't cows practically everywhere outside of cities and suburbs? Have these kids never gone on a single road trip? My work takes me to a semi-rural area every day and I see many, many farm animals. People keep goats as pets.

I think the people they surveyed must have been from some super dense urban area or something

Ive lived all over the country and there are cows freaking everywhere

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Whargarble posted...

Aren't cows practically everywhere outside of cities and suburbs?

It does depend a bit on where you are. When I took a road trip through Newfoundland, we didn't see a single cow the entire time we were there, even with a few detours off into small towns for pit stops. Some regions just aren't big on cattle, so if somebody's entire experience with driving through rural areas has been in one of those regions, I could see them not having seen a cow before.

"More than half" seems really high, though. That's just kind of weird.

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I drive by cows every single day.

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These are the most skewed poll results I've ever seen here.

JigsawTDC posted...

These are the most skewed poll results I've ever seen here.

this is potd

we see cows

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I live across the street from a farm. I see them everyday. Hear from in the middle of the night when I let my dog out too. Kind of funny to hear a moo coming from the inky blackness across the street.

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What I take from this is young people now days live in families where they can't travel. I'm pretty sure any state you drive through for more than a little while is going to have farms up against the interstate where you can see livestock.

Twice in my life ive lived literally next door to someone who had cattle. Hell woke up one day to find they had broken down the fence and where in my back yard.

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captpackrat posted...

And even a small herd of buffalo.

I'm jelly.

Whargarble posted...

People keep goats as pets.

tbh, I'd kinda want a pet goat. Could make maintaining the lawn that much easier.

JigsawTDC posted...

These are the most skewed poll results I've ever seen here.

It does seem like a distinct possibility.

BlackScythe0 posted...

What I take from this is young people now days live in families where they can't travel. I'm pretty sure any state you drive through for more than a little while is going to have farms up against the interstate where you can see livestock.

That or more likely it's not something that's a priority for many of them. Bear in mind that only 15% mention that they've never left their birth state. You could easily make the argument if most respondents hadn't left their birth state, but if they're already traveling then it's a matter of them going other places.

Kids will go to the Jersey Shore or Cancun (excluding the 42% who report never leaving the country), but they aren't checking out farms.

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I live in a town surrounded by feedlots

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They must have surveyed teenagers in one neighborhood in New York.

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Yeah. Lots of them. I've also ridden a camel (it sucks).

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did anyone else in school just get random field trips sometimes to like pioneer village kinda things where youd see ladies show you how people did things in olden times

and also youd see like cows and animals and learn how a farm works

what even was that? I needed to know stuff like finances and shit

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idk, if society collapses, knowing that stuff might be pretty useful.

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Mead posted...

did anyone else in school just get random field trips sometimes to like pioneer village kinda things where youd see ladies show you how people did things in olden times

and also youd see like cows and animals and learn how a farm works

what even was that? I needed to know stuff like finances and shit

My 5th grade teacher took us on a field trip to the (at the time) only traffic light in our town. I think that was also the field trip where my class clogged a toilet at an ice cream place we stopped at on the way there, and some kid got pushed through a store window during a fight.

The teacher retired after our class, I sometimes wonder why...

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Yellow posted...

They must have surveyed teenagers in one neighborhood in New York.

My thought exactly.

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Animals are gross.

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wtf you see cows all the time just be driving

Judgmenl posted...

Animals are gross.

Can be, but people are animals too and I've seen more gross-shit out of humans than cows.

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Mead posted...

did anyone else in school just get random field trips sometimes to like pioneer village kinda things where youd see ladies show you how people did things in olden times

and also youd see like cows and animals and learn how a farm works

what even was that? I needed to know stuff like finances and shit

I don't think we ever went to a farm on a field trip. I do remember going to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is a pretty freaking heavy thing for a kid to experience.

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Mead posted...

did anyone else in school just get random field trips sometimes to like pioneer village kinda things where youd see ladies show you how people did things in olden times

and also youd see like cows and animals and learn how a farm works

what even was that? I needed to know stuff like finances and shit

Maybe. That was like 73 years ago for me.
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party_animal07 posted...

I live in America's dairy land. Kind of hard not to unless you refuse to tip toe out of the city limits.

Really hope you're not talking about California, because them's fightin' words 'round here. That being said, I used to drive past dairy farms daily until covid hit.

Revelation34 posted...

Maybe. That was like 73 years ago for me.

Are you 80??

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He's 16

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