Urban legends are fun. Nobody knows how they started or whose idea it was to make up these myths, but they exist, that’s for sure! 

We call them “urban legends” or “urban myths” because many of them are propagated by urban people instead of country folks. Plus, they’re the most popular: the ones we tend to hear most about. Country folk have their myths and legends, some based on old wives’ tales and others half-truths, but they’ve long since been drowned out by the myths that are talked about–and asked–most about by genuinely curious “city folk.”

Unfortunately, many have taken these too far and believe these myths as truths. I have encountered several in the past who have publicly defended their beliefs that myths like cow tipping and only bulls have horns are, in fact, truth and fact. 

The only reason these people exist is due to the massive, multi-generational gap between the urbanized and the rural farm societies and how the media has wantonly spread these myths in a manner where the urban public takes the countrified satirical jokes too seriously! 

Fortunately, people like the author of Praise the Ruminant exist to counter these myths and provide scientific proof as to how and why these myths are exactly that. 

The urban myths below are everything that wasn’t covered in the vegan myths, environmental myths, and feeds and feeding myths about ruminants. The most common are covered below. If there are any more that must be added, they, too, will find their way here!