My friends and I spent a three-day weekend in the city of Naryn, Kyrgyzstan this month. Outside of our apartment was an unfinished structure of some sort, which was obviously used by everyone in the neighborhood as a dumpster; it was filled with trash. And cows. The cows were grazing on the trash. It was really a pathetic sight. We all stopped to take photos of the trash-eating cows, and were approached by an elderly Kyrgyz man. At first I thought that perhaps they were his cows, and that he would be really upset that they were eating trash and chase them on home. Sadly, that was not the case. He told us that the people of Naryn are lazy: they need cows in the city for milk and food, but they are too lazy to take them to pasture to graze, so they just let them wander the streets. He agreed with us that it was horrible and that it would make the milk and meat taste bad.