Editor's Note: These beautiful creatures are at the same or higher level intelligence as animals we hold dear as pets yet they are treated worse ways that an inanimate object would be treated, despicable!! Cows May be Able to Live Free Again Thanks to Science, I Love it!! :) We depend on cows for food, clothing, and sometimes even insulin. Cattle, though, are expensive and inefficient—each cow drinks a bathtub of water and emits three times that volume of methane daily. There are also the ethics of animal slaughter. But we might no longer need the cow. Scientists are synthesizing the substances we normally get from cows by using bovine cells, yeast, and even bacteria. Meat Since tissue engineer Mark Post debuted an in vitro burger in 2013, several companies have tried to create tasty, scalable test-tube meat. Though Memphis Meats recently unveiled a cultured meatball, two challenges—chewability and cost—have derailed other attempts. Leather To make lab-grown leather, Modern Meadow uses