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Eating bison may have helped save the animals, but it does raise the danger that managed herds will become domesticated and lose their distinct bison-ness. Ranchers have a financial incentive to cull herd members who are cantankerous (as older bulls are), who break fences, who fight other bulls. But removing these animals is a form of unnatural selection: it will eventually remove wild traits from the bison gene pool, making them docile like cattle...
...class, or they come late, or they surf the Web during lectures or even sections, I’ve noticed.”“Crucially, they are tired all of the time. Factors like these are not the elephant in the room. They are an entire herd of elephants, and they will trample all of us and our students to death,” Coleman said to hearty applause.One of the report’s authors, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Chair Andrew A. Biewener, agreed that potential reforms should consider the responsibility of students and professors...
...consumption, the rest allow money to exchange hands under certain conditions. In California, raw dairy products are available in grocery stores, while Illinois consumers can buy them directly from farms if they bring their own containers. An increasingly popular arrangement designed to circumvent state restrictions is a so-called herd-sharing program, like Hebron's, which requires members to, in effect, lease a portion of a cow - for $20 a year, in his case - and sign an agreement opposing "all governmental standards for food, preparation, storage and safety." The $6.25-per-gal. charge is technically not a sale but compensation...
...protest the treatment of the mild-mannered dairyman. In Feburary, the Amish farmer who supplies Hebron's co-op with raw milk received a warning letter from the FDA about potential interstate commerce violations. Hebron met with federal officials in Detroit on March 6th to defend the legality of herd-sharing arrangments, and is adamant about continuing his milk runs...
...major turning points, stock markets move in precisely the opposite direction to the one the herd expects based on the prevailing fundamentals. Bull markets begin in the depth of recessions, when investors have given up on the belief in any recovery and when doom and gloom prevail. Conversely, when the sky is cloudlessly blue and phrases like New Economy, New Paradigm and Goldilocks Scenario are in vogue, the odds of a serious bear market arriving increase significantly. Nobody rings a bell at the onset of a downturn-rather, bear markets sneak in, like a thief in the night, while...