Holy Cow [rimshot]
A Hare Krishna group in West Virginia (who knew?), faced with what appear to be mounting cases of dissatisfied cows, has launched the nation's first adopt-a-cow program, allowing you to provide care for a retired cow for $108 a month -- or, should that prove too pricey for you, you can feed a workaday cow for $51 a month instead. And you should definitely click through to the WSJ article on it; the cow-profile woodcut is worth the price of admission.