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“German animal rights activists captured a runaway dairy cow named Yvonne on Friday, three months after her escape from the farm where she was to be slaughtered captured nationwide attention. The bovine had become a media star, with helicopters and infrared used in a search across the southern state of Bavaria after she bolted in front of a police car. Authorities from Muehldorf, the town near the farm where she broke through an electric fence, had deemed Yvonne a security risk after her encounter with the squad car and had given hunters permission to gun her down. Activists from the Gut Aiderbichl animal sanctuary had tried to lure Yvonne from a forest where she was holed up with a variety of enticements — including one of her calves at one point and a breeding bull named Ernst. Capturing the cow was not easy………….”

I am sure glad the German cow’s break for freedom did not precede the Arab uprisings. Otherwise, it would be said that our region is finally learning to revolt against repression, from a cow, albeit a German cow. The uprisings in most Arab states preceded the Cow’s insurrection: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, even a mini-uprising in Oman. That leaves one large Arab state, among others, that has had no uprising there. Which can only mean one of two: either they are content with the way things are or, some misguided heretics may argue, it takes more than one German cow to teach them.
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