My wife, the personage whose father we gave a solemn "conservation burial" to recently (he was
not a Democrat and we did treat him to the fruit of the Carbonara's trade), once suffered a neighbor's cow getting into her garden, where it inconveniently expired. Being even at that early age an innovator, she commandeered a backhoe and gave that cow a shallow, compost-friendly burial in the very garden that it had been ransacking!
She composted a cow...
