Tired of your urban rush-hour traffic? Sick of your 21st-century-style desk job? Looking for a change into something… furrier? Well the bison industry has a suggestion for you: have you considered ditching your day job and taking up bison farming? [More]
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Dress Like A Cow On July 12, Get Free Food From Chick-Fil-A
By 7.11.16
If you’ve got a hankering for free food and have no problem looking like a farm animal in public, July 12 will be your lucky day: Chick-fil-A is offering complimentary entrees to anyone who shows up at its restaurants dressed like a cow. [More]
4 Children Who Visited Dairy Festival Now Sick From E. Coli
By 4.29.15
When you visit animals at a fair or a petting zoo, there are usually hand-washing or hand sanitizer stations at every entrance and exit. There’s a very good reason why these exist. That’s been proven in Washington state, where a handful of first-graders are sick from E. coli, a potentially dangerous pathogen that’s transmitted in, um, poop. [More]
Cattle Rustling Is Making A Comeback In Oklahoma
By 11.17.14
Cattle rustling is an old-timey regional term for one of the oldest crimes in human civilization: walking off with someone else’s livestock. It turns out that when animals have been bred to be docile and to trust humans, it’s not hard to drive off with them. Auction houses don’t ask for proof that the cattle you’re selling are actually yours, there are no standardized ear tags, and the unwitting public ends up eating the evidence. [More]
Organic Milk Is Better For Humans Because Of Delicious Grass
By 12.11.13
Cows’ stomachs are optimized to graze on grass. As ruminants, it’s just what they do, but modern milk production doesn’t give them opportunities to wander outside and eat grass. It turns out, though, that when cows get to eat grass, the milk they produce is better for humans. [More]
Batten Down The Burger Hatches: Beef Prices Ballooning This Year
By 1.30.12
Snacking on steak sandwiches and biting into burgers is going to hit you where it hurts, in your already moaning and groaning wallet. Ground beef prices are already at a record high and are going to keep soaring, and the cost of steak is on the uptick too. Time to go vegetarian! [More]
The Great 2008 Beef Recall's Cow Torturing Villains Revealed
By 2.28.08
Here are the booking photos of Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., employees, Jose Luis Sanchez and Daniel Navarro. They are both suspects arrested in connection with the animal abuse incident at the slaughterhouse.
