Why aren't cows etc green?

[melthebell 864]

they eat a lot of green grass, drinking a lot of sunny delight turns you orange, surely they should be green?

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[angos 10]

they eat a lot of green grass, drinking a lot of sunny delight turns you orange, surely they should be green?

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They are green, you are probably colour blind.

[jfish1936 10]

Chlorophyll, the green pigment, was touted as a deodorant, giving rise to the verse:

 

Why stinks the goat

On yonder hill

Who seems to dote

On chlorophyll

[Alcoblog 10]

they eat a lot of green grass, drinking a lot of sunny delight turns you orange, surely they should be green?

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From Alcopedia ...

 

Cows ARE normally green, it's just that you can't see them due to their capacity to blend in with their surroundings (called 'camouflage').

In fact, cows are so good at being green that they are mainly bred just for their pigments, which are milked from them and they do actually produce two colours ...

 

Chlorophyll, which is green and used in a variety of things, from paint for Aston Martins to a wide variety of electrical applications such as LED lights, computer screens, the green in a TV picture and camera viewfinders etc.

 

Xanthrophyll ... this is 'yellow' and is widely used for the lines on roads, egg yolk colouration and Hi Viz safety clothing.

 

Cows are only visible to the naked eye just after they have been milked, having been fully drained of green. This green is so concentrated that everything it comes into contact with is immediately stained the same colour ... grass for instance, which is normally brown (in 'unstained' condition), until the cow wees on it (any scientific expert like me will tell you that grass does indeed contain large amounts of chlorophyll and Xanthophyll). Same with leaves ... they turn green due to evaporates of cow wee, which condenses on them hence the colour.

Of course, the leaves (on deciduous trees) don't like being covered in cow wee very much and tend to die and fall off after a few months (AKA, 'Autumn' ... an acronym for 'Another Urine-infected Tree Unfoliates, Mid November').

 

Coniferous trees on the other hand have built up a resistance to cow urine ... a feat which is celebrated every year by us chopping one down and sticking it in the living room.

 

Although lost in the annals of time, it's thought that the true meaning of the word 'Christmas' comes from biblical times when Jesus came to Yorkshire for a short Thompson's December break with his mum and dad ... upon finding a fully green fir tree at the bottom of the garden, Jesus shouted to his dad (Joseph) 'look what I've found Dad ... a green tree in December!'

To which his dad (Joseph) replied ... 'Christ master Jesus ... chop it down and bring it into the holiday hovel and keep it warm by the fire!'

 

The rest, of course, is history ...

Edited October 29, 2013 by Alcoblog

[L00b 441]

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[Manlinose 10]

Damn, I WANT a like button on SF!

 

me too!...

[RootsBooster 24]

Cow's aren't green because chlorophyll isn't green, it just reflects green light. Cows do consume chlorophyll but as of 3rd generation, cows no longer have the properties of transparency (in which case, the inner chlorophyl would reflect green light back out, making the cows appear green).

Since then, cows have mainly reflected back over their previous 2/3rds of life, sometimes pondering over the future.

 

True story.

[metalman 21]

If they were green they'd be able to photosynthesize and they wouldn't need to eat grass and chew cud all day any more. Then they'd get bored and start doing things like hanging around on street corners, drinking, petty crime and so on. Delinquent gangs of Friesians would terrorise your neighbourhood, old ladies would be mugged by heifers, and people like Mel would be hanged by the bullocks.

 

Just be thankful they're black and white.

[Moosey 10]

 

Cows ARE normally green, it's just that you can't see them due to their capacity to blend in with their surroundings (called 'camouflage').

 

Cow-moo-flage.

Sorry.

 

 

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[nikonuser 10]

From Alcopedia ...

 

Cows ARE normally green, it's just that you can't see them due to their capacity to blend in with their surroundings (called 'camouflage').

In fact, cows are so good at being green that they are mainly bred just for their pigments, which are milked from them and they do actually produce two colours ...

 

 

 

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If they are that well camouflaged how do you find them to milk them? Do the farmers use teams of specialist cowdaver dogs? or is there a simpler explanation?

[L00b 441]

If they are that well camouflaged how do you find them to milk them? Do the farmers use teams of specialist cowdaver dogs? or is there a simpler explanation?

Cows voluntarily submit to milking, as they unfortunately lack opposable thumbs to do it themselves.

 

But, speaking of camooflage, they all undergo ninja training to administer cow licks in the dead of night. 'tis a well-known fact

[Alcoblog 10]

If they are that well camouflaged how do you find them to milk them? Do the farmers use teams of specialist cowdaver dogs? or is there a simpler explanation?

 

Of course there's a simpler explanation! ... Catalytic osmosis, through trans-ionic bonding metabolates, incorporating bio-luminescent trans-induction theory (on non-inductional macro thermoplasty modelling, of course).

 

---------- Post added 29-10-2013 at 11:30 ----------

 

Cows voluntarily submit to milking, as they unfortunately lack opposable thumbs to do it themselves.

 

But, speaking of camooflage, they all undergo ninja training to administer cow licks in the dead of night. 'tis a well-known fact

 

I like that ... did you paint it yourself?