cattle rustling

(Newser) - In a one-week span late last year, four Colorado ranchers reported some of their cattle had gone missing. It wasn't uncommon to lose the occasional animal to a predator, illness, or weather on the high Uncompahgre Plateau where they grazed, writes Karin Brulliard for the Washington Post . But not...

(Newser) - Cows are famously regarded as "sacred" in the Hindu faith, and as such, killing cows is illegal in much of India. But as the country increasingly develops a taste for beef, a black market of illegal slaughterhouses is also growing, and alongside it, cattle rustlers are stealing more and...