Bikini models pose with dairy cows during the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant in the Shuozhou, Shanxi Province of China (© ChinaFotoPress/ZUMAPress.com)

Masked bikini models pose with dairy cows during the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant in the Shuozhou, Shanxi Province of China

It's hard to look sexy when your fellow model just wants to chew cud.

Don't stare at the models. Perfect!

Not the strangest thing we've seen on the Internet, but it's up there.

Does this mean they're married now?

Hey, buddy, my eyes are up here.

Yes, I am very happy to be in this photoshoot, thanks.

And apparently Laura Ingalls Wilder joins in to add some panache.

OK, this lady is having WAY too much fun.

Is that Miss China? The heifer with the sexy gams?

A farmer poses with his dairy cow during the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant in the Shuozhou, Shanxi Province of China (© ChinaFotoPress/ZUMAPress.com)

I'm too sexy for my cow. Too sexy for my cow.

Bovine beauty pageant puts critics in bad moo-ds

8/21/2012

Beauty met beast in one Chinese beauty pageant. In surely the only pageant in which calling a contestant a heifer is considered a compliment, last weekend, the dairy industry in Shanyin County in the Chinese province of Shanxi held a contest. Only, the contestants were 200 cows, which were judged on the basis of “looks, milk and pedigree.” Critics had a, well, cow over the inclusion of eight (human) female models, who wore bikinis and masks while posing and milking the cows, as seen in the gallery above. Said one editorial: “Beautiful girls have far greater ability to attract attention that the milk cow contestants. How do you think that makes the cows feel?” [Source]

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