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Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Nathan Banks
18 September 2004 - 7:00am

Swiss ask virtual tourists to plan their landscape.

"Do cows improve the view? That is a question which interests the Swiss government, given that it subsidises farmers heavily to graze their cows in the mountains. One justification for the subsidy is that cows eat young trees, and fewer trees mean better vistas of the sort beloved by tourists. But just how much do cows improve the view and where do they provide most value for money?"

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Source: The Economist, October 25, 2005
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