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I don't know a LOT about farming, but I was sure I knew where eggs come from.

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IcooIey

The Farmers Cow is a cool Connecticut cooperative started by six farms a decade or so ago selling eggs around New England and they have a cafe with ice cream, milk bar and sandwiches in our town (I think a few locations in eastern CT). One of the farms is in the next town over from me and they put in an anaerobic digester a few years ago to turn farm waste into electricity. They now partner with the local schools and collect and process their food waste too. Good eggs!
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IcooIey

they do milk and cheese too! It’s dairy farms so unless you are right about the egg laying cows, probably it was started to sell milk products. But eastern CT was traditionally a big egg producing region so it makes sense we’d develop a combo milk/egg producing animal.
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Dilman Dila

@Karen5Lund They probably are fans of this South African folk tale, The Bird That Made Milk
ododopress.com/african-folk-tales/the-bird-that-made-milk/

The Bird That Made Milk

This folk tale from the Xhosa people is the story of a magical bird that could make milk during a famine, and it follows the adventures of two children who set out to outwit their greedy parents who deny them food. It's dark, but has a happy ending.
DILMANDILA (Ododo Press)
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an actual bus

no see the cow's running the business and raising the chickens, that's why its face is on the packaging

Like when you see grape juice with a dude's face on the jug, you don't go assuming the dude secreted the juice right

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HollieK

I got sceptical about this, so looked them up, and yes, they're real, and they sell milk and eggs. Still have questions about the design, though.

thefarmerscow.com/our-products/

The Farmer's Cow Milk and Eggs

We’re dedicated to providing natural local milk, fresh from our New England farm families to yours. Our hens are fed an all-natural, whole-grain diet with no animal by-products, no preservatives, no artificial growth hormones, and no antibiotics.
The Farmer's Cow
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ohir

You underestimate the miracles that the modern food industry is capable of. It’s true that so far I’ve seen a pound of cow turned into ten-pound packets of beef, but modern technology abhors leftovers, so from what has left from above process they can use to produce a dozen eggs and half a dozen tins. ;))