'Flight Speed' of Cattle Determines Tastiness

Posted by michael on Sunday March 31, 2002 @10:07PM from the laden-or-unladen dept.

mge writes "Despite all the nasty things people say about us, Australians are still at work breeding a tastier (and cheaper) cow for you... Beef Researchers at (where else but ?) the Beef Cooperative Research Centre, Australia have found that a) a cows temperament correlates with its taste, b) this is inheritable, and c) the temperament can be measured by its "flight speed". "Flight Speed" is the time it takes the animal to cover 1.6m after release from a weight crush, into an open pen. There's pictures and an explanation (PDF Sorry - Google version Google version in HTML) of how flight speed is measured at the BreedPlan site."

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Bovine Aviation? by AnalogBoy · 2002-04-01 01:05 · Score: 3, Funny

The flight speed of a bovine unit would have to be exceptionally high. Higher indeed than Porcine Aviation, due to the higher weight and less areodynamic body. Then of course is the problem of no wings. But that's trivial.

Okay. Two cow-related posts in 2 days. Ton's of geeks going around saying moo. The gateway thing. And lets not even get started on the Hindu thing. WHATS THE DEAL WITH COWS?!

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