Cow escapes slaughterhouse, new adventure

(WATCH VIDEO) Actor Ricardo Montalban plays an elegant cow escaping slaughter on the Family Guy episode "McStroke" (Season 6, Ep. 8). Peter suffers a stroke from eating meat and sets out to expose the horrors of the fastfood hamburger industry.

Matthew Brown (AP, Feb. 3, 2011)

BILLINGS, Montana – Five years after a cow dubbed the "Unsinkable Molly B" leapt a slaughterhouse gate and swam across the Missouri River in an escape that drew international attention, the heifer has again eluded fate, surviving the collapse of the animal sanctuary where she was meant to retire.

Molly B (AP/Great Falls Tribune/Rion Sanders)

Molly B was among an estimated 1,200 animals removed from the Montana Large Animal Sanctuary and Rescue in recent weeks as part of a massive effort to

bail out its overwhelmed owners. Animal welfare groups said they were forced to euthanize dozens of starving and ill cattle, horses, and llamas found on the 400-acre sanctuary in rural Sanders County.

The bovine celebrity herself -- an overweight black Angus breed said to be sore in the hoof but otherwise relatively healthy -- was removed to a nearby ranch and is headed this week to a smaller farm sanctuary. More>>

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet" (Albert Einstein).

• New Dawn Montana Farm Sanctuary
• The Ballad of Molly B (Great Falls Tribune)