China's Cow Town

Cows, slaughterhouse, Inner Mongolia
Chien-min Chung/Getty Images for TIME

Waste Not
Workers cut beef at a traditional slaughterhouse in Hohhot. Almost every part of a cow is sold and eaten — as one former feedlot owner in Beijing put it, "If I could save the 'moo,' I could sell it."

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