Once I was a strong and resistant wheat seed, my brothers and I basked in the sun all day and at night we got the water we needed so much. Then one day the cows came out of the barn and started heading towards me and my brothers. Being attached to the log we could do nothing as we watched our friends in the next log get eaten alive. As we watched in horror, another cow came up from behind and grabbed us with its hideous tongue, and we were dragged into its hideous cavernous mouth dripping with saliva. Almost instantly my brothers and I were drenched in the horrible liquid that lubricated us and soaked in saliva. As we were ruthlessly chewed and swallowed we realized that it was a ruminant animal, with this information we came to terms with the fact that we would all die and be digested while a monogastric animal would pass us by virtually unscathed. we entered the rumen for the first time many of us were lost to the microbes that reside in the rumen, this was repeated over and over shooting us back and forth through the esophagus until or...