cop-disliker69:

kontextmaschine:

Remember riding on long car trips as a kid and seeing cows by the side of the road and going “moo!”?

Turns out that was actually a really specific point in time when you’d use state highways that were inherited from older land patterns that might visibly pass by farms before even medium-distance trips were routed through an Eisenhower Interstate freeway

Uh, I drive up and down the I-5 in California and see cows all the time (the smell is unbearable for like a certain 30-minute stretch), like right up to the fences on either side of the freeway.

Granted a lot of them are in big brown feedlots rather than bucolic little family farms, but some seem to just be freely grazing on little grassy hills and shit, same as they have for centuries.

The cows centuries ago were along the PCH, all those tiny state parks were once watering holes and pastures to grow beef cattle that would be coastally shipped to feed San Francisco, then as the state developed the land barons deeded the now-obsolete land over in lieu of taxes