The Newspaper Shop -- Thursday morning edition

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U.S. Tax Dollars Hard at Work ....WT?

Spies Who Love Farm Animals
In Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons, farm animals such as cows have secret lives when people aren't watching. Now, government scientists are about to discover whether cows really do drink and smoke when no one's around. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has hired two undercover ethologists to spy on barnyard animals. No flick of a cow's tail or blink of a pig's eye will go unnoticed in their surreptitious study of farm animals' behavior patterns. Ethologists have been studying animals in the wild for years, but farmyard ethology is a new scientific discipline. Morrow-Tesch, a research leader at the Livestock Issues Research Unit, said barnyard ethologists want to determine what puts farm animals under stress and develop ways to alleviate it.


Damn! kill it, cook it, eat it .......animals under stress, they're stressing ME out with this crap!!