Cheats!!

[grassfarmer]

I have spotted something in the USDA statement of 5th of January which we should all be pointing out to our politicians:
"USDA has made the decision to depopulate the bull calf operation in Mabton, Washington, that includes a calf born to the heifer infected with BSE prior to the heifer’s slaughter this past December."
What??? the animal with BSE was a heifer?? but surely if she was a heifer she couldn't have been born 6 1/2 years ago?
I think the authors knowledge is about as flimsy as their scientific evidence!

[kato]

I noticed that too. I think that knowledge of the subject is not a requirement for reporting the news. (That's a little scary, isn't it?)

I bet if someone wrote a story on George Bush and his fellow Democrats it would be noticed! LOL

[cowman]

Well they were all heifers once right? Just like all ladies were once girls? And sometimes we call old women , girls? Just a poor choice of words, but nothing shocking here.

[dalek]

This happens within the industry too, I'm getting really tired of auctioneers that will call a cow a "2nd-calf heifer" or even a 3rd-calf heifer to try to pump her up.

[kato]

Around here the auctioneers call them "heiferettes". Makes them sound like cheerleaders.

Does that make a steer a bullette?