It has been suggested that someone, somewhere might question the assumption that it’s an excellent idea to taser a pregnant police officer,and that someone—perhaps someone else—might question the assumption that it’s an excellent idea to taser a methamphetamine-intoxicated sheep. These two studies investigate those possibly related questions: “The Pregnant Officer,” Fabrice Czarnecki [pictured here], Clinics In Occupational and Environmental Medicine, vol. […]
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The Further Adventures of The Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand
Lively, if not entirely cheerful, debate can be provoked by mentioning this study done by a researcher at the Meat Industry Research Institute of New Zealand: “Effect of Stress-Related Changes in Sheepmeat Ultimate pH on Cooked Odor and Flavor,” T.J. Braggins, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 1996, 44 (8), pp 2352–2360: “In this study […]
Which way do sheep turn? [JER research]
One of the latest publications in the field of postmodern range sciences – from the USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico – has been scheduled for future publication in the journal ‘Laterality’. Authors Dean M. Anderson and Leigh W. Murray (at K-State) set up a suite of experiments with 309 white-faced ewes, in […]
The wisdom of flerds [JER video]
As part of their ongoing commitment to postmodern range sciences, the USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, has prepared a video profiling the concept of a flerd. (defined thus:) “A group of livestock containing two or more species which stay together under free-ranging conditions is defined as a flerd”