Reply To: Do you thank the Cow for the milk, also?

I don’t hear that. The way you are describing it is something completely cerebral. Stop wearing a tie on Shabbos. If you are truly makir tov there is going to be some feeling of thankfulness. If she is tochah k’borah and she can express this feeling even to a chay, she is still not as great as Moshe who showed it to the sand. I don’t mean that a person should become a hippy and start hugging cows they pass on the way to upstate. But I see a maylah in privately having such a hargasha.