Show notes
There’s something rotten in the cows of Denmark. And Minnesota. And Wisconsin. And Idaho. What could cause a previously thriving herd of majestic dairy cattle to stop drinking water and start drinking … urine? A Danish farmer calls a special investigator, who takes one look at his farm and nopes the heck out of there, refusing to return, citing “bad energy” coming from something nearby … a big building covered in Viking runes. It’s not magic.
Highlighted moments
the moment a cow starts peeing. All these other cows... ...will immediately run over. And turn their head to sort of, like, catch the piss in the air.
“If you want to do some research, I remember seeing photographs of people holding up fluorescent light bulbs underneath high-voltage transmission lines, and the lights would light up.”
“Simplest way to think about this is cows are bigger. So they're like a bigger wire. So it's easier for electricity to pass through them.”
“Cows will turn to drinking pee if they don't have enough minerals like potassium. Sodium or whatever like that. That generally is the major reason for drinking urine.”
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