More Cowbell In southeastern Brazil, bovine beauty pageants help determine the most genetically-desirable cows in the world — and these "supercows" are changing the meat farming as we know it. As The Economist reports, the drapey-necked "zebu" cows who compete in Brazil's ExpoZebu gala originally hailed from India, but have been proliferating in the South American country since the 19th century — initially thanks to a natural resistance to heat and parasites that European breeds lacked, and later thanks to genetic modification and cloning. In Brazil's Minas Gerais, cattle farming took the region from poverty to plenty — and zebu, […]