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Get on the Beef Train: Amtrak Unveils First Biodiesel Commuter Train, Powered...
Technology The so-called green train is slated to run as a one-year experiment. Just how viable is it? Amtrak has unveiled the nation's first biodiesel train, with a surprise twist -- the fuel is...
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Rinderpest, the Cattle-Killing Plague, to Become the Second...
Science The UN will formally announce the triumph this summer The plague begins with a fever, weepy eyes and a drippy muzzle. Dysentery and diarrhea follow, and then death by dehydration. Rinderpest...
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Chemists Design Method to Figure Out What Your Meat Ate
Science Foodies want to know everything about their animal-based dishes these days — where the meat came from, what it ate, what its name was. OK, maybe not that last part. But there… Foodies want to...
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Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs
Science Wyoming's anti-scientific laws have allowed the most famous wolf in Yellowstone to be shot. Shooting wolves isn't only senseless--it actively harms the environment. Last week, an alpha female...
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How To Make A More Environmentally Friendly Cow
Science A new search for ways to reduce the methane cattle produce. Scientists around the world have worked on making buildings, cars and light bulbs more environmentally friendly. What's next? Cows....
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Antibiotics Go Airborne Near Big Cattle Yards
Animals The smell isn't the only reason not to stand downwind It's one thing to watch what you eat, but if you're worried about the antibiotics used by the meat industry, you may be mindful of where...
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Transgenic Cows Might Help Struggling Farmers In Africa
Animals A baboon gene could give cattle a fighting chance against a deadly disease The answer to a deadly disease in Africa could be a babbling, bumbling band of baboons--or at least their genes,...
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Gene Editing Makes Cows Without Horns
Animals With no apparent negative effects Cattle have now been made hornless through genetic editing, with no apparent side effects, researchers say.
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Why these animals (and one baby) are incredibly jacked
Muscle Month Nothing like a genetic mutation to make you look like a bodybuilder. If superheroes kept cattle, they’d keep Belgian Blues. These behemoths have such bulging muscles you’d think they...
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