The cows had learn within the moospaper about different cows that labored at Starbucks and Trader Joe’s and Amazon (whose founder Jeff Bezos additionally owns The Washington Submit) and so they thought that collective motion was the reply, not realizing that their very own scenario was very, very totally different!
So the cows introduced Farmer Brown with an inventory of calls for: They and the hens wished electrical blankets.
Farmer Brown defined that he was working at a really slender margin and that if the cows and hens wouldn’t produce extra milk and eggs, their calls for for electrical blankets had been going to place him out of enterprise.
“I perceive the place you might be coming from,” Farmer Brown wrote. “However different farmers don’t provide electrical blankets for his or her cows and hens. If I did that, I must pay a month-to-month electrical energy invoice. If we had been a big operation, it is perhaps a special story. However we’re a small household farm. The electrical blankets you request will lower our margins. Already, you obtain lots of advantages. You could have a pleasant barn over your heads. You could have hay to eat. You could have fields to roam that embrace views of a duck pond.”
Farmer Brown angrily typed a second single-spaced web page. “I’ve received to compete with Farmer Inexperienced, who doesn’t deal with his cows with the consideration that I do. He has a lot decrease working bills as a result of he makes use of cheap labor from abroad cows who wouldn’t have a barn in any respect and are milked by a machine. As an alternative of asking for electrical blankets, why not be pleased about your barn and your duck pond?”
The cows didn’t hear. As an alternative, they went on strike, and the hens did, too. So Farmer Brown caved to their calls for. He purchased the electrical blankets for the cows and hens, and he ran {an electrical} line to the barn.
Doing all this price him cash, and he needed to take out a mortgage. The cows and hens started to provide milk and eggs once more, however it was simply the same amount as earlier than. Farmer Inexperienced lowered his costs, and Farmer Brown couldn’t compete. He started to lose enterprise.
Quickly Farmer Brown was closely in debt. He typed a letter to the cows: “Pricey cows, you’ve gotten elevated my working bills, however you haven’t produced extra milk or higher milk, simply the identical milk as earlier than. Options for brand spanking new sources of income?”
The cows ignored him. They had been proud of their electrical blankets.
Mrs. Brown had been studying on-line about potential new sources of income. “Beef is a income,” urged Mrs. Brown. She heard typing from the barn. Click on, clack, moo. Click on, clack, moo. The cows and hens had been formulating extra calls for.
“Rooster is a income,” urged Mrs. Brown. “Plenty of folks like to purchase beef and rooster and eat it.”
“That’s a good suggestion,” stated Farmer Brown. “If the cows and hens is not going to assist me with my revenue margins, they are going to assist me to make beef and rooster.”
The subsequent morning, one of many cows was lacking from the barn. Her electrical blanket was nonetheless there, however there was no signal of her. Duck, who was a impartial get together, reported {that a} mysterious van had pushed as much as the farm after which pushed away with the cow in it. She had struggled towards Farmer Brown as he positioned her into the van. Kick, kick, moo. Kick, kick, moo. He had cocked his rifle. Click on, clack, increase.
The cows and hens met late into the night time to debate this startling improvement. “It was unwise of us to unionize,” the hens stated. “We’re very sorry.”
“Sure,” the cows agreed. “It was foolhardy, and we see it now. Please, take again the electrical blankets!”
Now, the cows understood that their calls for had been unreasonable and would have pushed Farmer Brown out of business if they’d continued. All of them felt horrible that they’d dared to go towards administration.
They wrote a thank-you card to Farmer Brown for not turning them into beef and rooster and all people signed it, even the duck.
Farmer Brown was completely happy. He left the typewriter within the barn as an indication of his appreciation.
However you by no means heard click on, clack, moo from it once more. The cows had been a lot too busy working.
