Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

Cow Business

One of my favorite cartoons depicts two shipwrecked cowboys leaning against the single palm tree on a one hump deserted island when a thin canner cow swims ashore. One cowboy groans, “Great, with all the bad luck we have had lately, now we are back in the cow business.” Understanding the cowboy’s sentiment is easier if you own cows and I have. Let me leave our two cowboys and cow while I ramble to another subject. Don’t worry, they will be here when we come back because they are surrounded by water and even a crazy cow can’t brush-up in a one-tree timber patch.

In an Epoch Times news story Consumers’ Research suggested Black Friday shoppers avoid retail chains which have gone woke. Their top five woke and soon to be broke companies were: #1) Best Buy, who has a goal to fill one third of new corporate positions with BIPOC employees by 2025, BIPOC being Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. #2) Activision which mandated the number of women and non-binary employees to increase by 50 percent in five years. #3) Target who targets children with LGBT Pride products. #4 and #5) Nordstrum and Home Depot who are promoting the “Welcoming School Program” advancing gender inclusion.

Now, for a company not on the Consumers’ Research list but prominently printed on the Conservative Cow Doctor list. The Zoetis pharmaceutical giant recently announced their foundation would be donating to the FFA to create a new program promoting diversity, equity and inclusiveness (DEI). If you see no problem with a multinational company determining ag winners and losers based on the color of a young farmer’s skin, then Zoetis is your company. They are not mine. You innocent, blue-coated FFA students are being used like a dime-store hooker and after doing your dirty deed you will be dumped at the closest street corner.

We immediately closed our Zoetis account and will no longer carry their products. Because my practice has become mostly small animal, my trading elsewhere will have little effect on their bottom line. In years past, we could swing a couple hundred thousand dollars off their balance sheet, and this brings me to my point. “With the string of bad luck, I have had lately,” I might have to get back in the cow business so I can be certain at least one cow outfit never uses Zoetis products. Just like every Democrat pie-in-the-sky talking point, not a single business or government agency has improved life by imposing DEI. Woke is a cancer which even fenbendazole can’t cure.