Posted on 08/08/2017 6:35:55 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
eil deGrIf you had told this editor she would spend two days in a row writing about cows at Twitchy, she’d have laughed and asked you to stop eating paint chips … and yet here we are.
Day two covering cows, all because PETA decided it was SEXIST to eat cheese. Oh you didn’t see that one? Promise we’re not making that up, see for yourself.
And now THIS:
Neil deGrasse Tyson ✔@neiltysonA cow is a biological machine invented by humans to turn grass into steak.
6:38 PM - Aug 7, 2017
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Ben Shapiro ✔@benshapiroWhoohoo!We invented the cow? Go us! https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/894689139853012992 … 7:04 PM - Aug 7, 2017
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So does that mean we invented pigs too? Mmmm, bacon.
Chris McAllister @themanfronUNCLEWe knew that someday, someone would want to invent the NY Strip, prime rib and the hamburger
7:16 PM - Aug 7, 2017 0 Replies 0 Retweets 4 likes
We should honestly invent a half cow, half pig creature to provide filets wrapped in bacon. RIGHT?!
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
Ooops, one wrong word "invent" .....
/It happens to all of us, right?
A cow is a biological machine created by God to turn grass into steak.
There. Fixed it.
Who cares what either of these room temperature IQ’s posing as mental giants thinks on both stuff and things.
Well he’s right, in a sense.
Domestication is in essence “inventing” a new form of a previously wild species. Today’s modern dairy cow is very much an invented animal.
Today’s modern corn, for instance, would never have existed without human interaction. All of the breeds of dogs we have are another.
He is right in that we took a wild ox and domesticated them for food and optimized their biology around the idea of being food.
This guy never struck me as especially smart—despite his degrees.
“A cow is a biological machine invented by humans to turn grass into steak. “
And isnt this meant to be tongue-in-cheek? It sounds like something many people here would say as a joke.
We’ve bred them. Sure, our intervention isn’t usually as profound as with dogs or as debilitating as with domestic turkeys, but some breeds of domestic cows ARE our inventions: some would die without us. This is especially true of certain breeds of dairy cattle.
And before you go there: very very few actual inventions arise from nothing, almost all are rearrangements of what what already there, of something created by someone else ... the idea of “inventing” does not exclude breeding critters.
I’m in agreement with you on this one here.
This is taking a running leap at stretching credulity.
Every bit of selective breeding we’ve done on livestock for 4,000 years pretty much makes this the case.
In fact, I would love to see a biological evolution of what the cow, chicken and pig were and have become over that period of time.
We all know that dozens and dozens of dog breeds are invented. GMO’s have made seedless watermelons my favorite and of course those don’t exist in nature right?
I am in agreement with one of the responses, someone please breed pigs and cows so we have bacon infused burgers.
He’s not smart. He’s the Barack Obama of physics - put in the place he is, given respect solely due to his status as a “Magic Negro”.
What he is in reality is a living incarnation of institutional scientific fraud.
He would be more accurately described as a mystic or a cultist priest than a scientist.
A great invention it is.
It is easier just to run hamburger and bacon through a grinder together.
We’ve bred them. Sure, our intervention isn’t usually as profound as with dogs or as debilitating as with domestic turkeys, but some breeds of domestic cows ARE our inventions: some would die without us. This is especially true of certain breeds of dairy cattle.
And before you go there: very very few actual inventions arise from nothing, almost all are rearrangements of what what already there, of something created by someone else ... the idea of “inventing” does not exclude breeding critters.
Yep, Tyson is right, Sharpiro is wrong. People are way to eager to jump on something they see on Twitter, before researching it
Maybe deGrasse Tyson confused the cow with the turducken...
“A cow is a biological machine invented by humans to turn grass into steak. “
All this negativity. Shouldn’t we just say “Thank you.”?
Now, fire up that grill...
Then he should have referred to breeds instead of the species.
The Aurochs where the base form of cattle.
We did domesticate them, but they are still a descendant of the auroch.
He has a layman’s way of expressing himself, but he is probably right.
Cows have been bred to be as domesticated and docile as possible to a point where they probably could not survive in the wild.
Reminds me of my father’s response to a young woman from PETA: “After 10,000 years of domestication, the natural environment for a cow is a barn.”
Yep, this is where it started. They were wild and we just put a rope on them.
He should stick to astrophysics. /sarc
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