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...hardly hope to explode. Consider the fact that the meats in the English language have different names from the animals they come from (pig, pork; deer, venison; cow, beef) because the Norman rulers in England were the ones who got to enjoy meat while the poor peasants could only herd the animals, or at best raise them for dairy products. But that doesn't excuse baseless assumptions. It's always good to analyze the source of one's sense of repulsion: as a meat-eater, is it justifiable that I look down on other meats as unclean...
During the summer, two Deep Springers work as student cowboys, caring for the herd over 80,000 acres of range land; the first man trains the second to take the senior role the following summer...
...spend from June until September in the high country with the herd," Dewis says. "Those days, it's you and one other guy up there and a string of two horses...making sure the cattle have access to water and are well fed, that they're kept out of sensitive areas. Summers on the mountain are the most rigorous and the most indulgent...
Being a cowboy in the '90s isn't like the movies. While John Wayne spent more time slinging a gun than looking after actual cows, the student cowboys must guard the herd carefully to prevent it from trampling sensitive ecosystems. They also assist in calf-birthing...
...does best. But it won't hesitate to enter a variety of industries--not unlike Richard Branson's Virgin brand. Success in markets dominated by consumers and brands, the authors claim, comes not from taking on competitors head on, but from staking out new territories away from the herd. "The dirty little secret of market capitalism in all its many forms is that successful companies...have all succeeded in creating monopolies, at least for a short period of time...Success arises from being different. And then being prepared to change again...