Helping one billion bovines

You and I have our challenges and some real worries, too. There are bills to pay and doctors to visit, to say nothing of mulling over those strange sounds coming from the rear of the car.

But I confess I thought the life of a cow was rather placid. Eating and sleeping, I would have guessed, pretty much summed up the existence of the more than one billion bovines that share the planet with us.

But as I've recently learned, both beef cattle and dairy cows often have trouble just catching their breath. It's not that they are gaily running across their pastures, frolicking joyfully in the sunlight...