Tense cows mean tough steaks

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Australian scientists are using electronic sensors to single out happy cows in an attempt to produce better-tasting steaks.

Researchers from the government's scientific body, CSIRO, have found that tense cattle produce tough meat. Beef cows with a (perhaps justifiable) fear of humans exact revenge by producing tougher, scrawnier steaks.

The scientists have come up with a device that measures an animal's state of mind by working out how long it takes them to run away after being weighed.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=18456

All in the name so we can kill and eat happy animals! This is more disgusting than the 'penis stew' story!

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1. I am not a vegitarian.

But I live in a dairy state and I have seen the little calves in their "special little houses" wisked away from their mothers immediately. No comfort. Just a rope and a plastic home.

I have often wondered if the stress of it on both mother's and calves changes the milk some way.

Regardless, I think it is cruel and should be stopped.