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Posted on 12/19/2021 5:46:23 AM PST by rktman
Americans may have had their fill of turkey after gorging themselves on the birds for Thanksgiving, but a new study — with not-so-new findings — has dished out second helpings.
Domesticated turkeys bred for their meat weigh up to three times more than their wild counterparts, according to a study from Brown University researchers that was funded with $1.7 million in federal grants.
While the birds have increased muscle mass and breast meat, there’s little change in the length of their bones and limbs, leading to a slower-moving turkey that waddles, the study says.
“The increase in body mass, relatively short hindlimb bones and altered distribution of muscle mass in today's domestic turkeys may make maintaining equivalent gait dynamics difficult,” the study noted.
Wild turkeys have been observed running a six-minute mile — a speed that puts novice runners to shame — but their captive brothers and sisters are far slower.
But this information has been reported in other turkeys-on-treadmills studies for nearly a decade.
The $1.7 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation is taxpayer money wasted, Sen. Joni Ernst pointed out in giving NIH and NSF the November 2021 Squeal Award for this study.
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Congress has a slow fat turtle.
wouldnt that be Fat Shaming ???
anyone who has hunted or raised turkeys could have told you this for free.
We’re talking serious science here.
Would have been cheaper just to watch C Span.
Hugh and series!
Yet more evidence that “science” has morphed into political science regardless of the supposed discipline.
THIS is what college professors and their graduate students DO with research grants!
I thought this was a Stacy Abrams thread!
At first take I thought nadler.
WKRP proved that. Domesticated turkeys are too fat to fly.
“THIS is what college professors and their graduate students DO with research grants!”
When asked what he did with his research grant the professor answered “I spent most of it on booze and hookers, the rest I wasted.”
Just watch the American congress.
Ha! The ones I know are too square for hookers or booze. Maybe they buy weed ... anyway, they sure LOVE their government money and they sure they whine their a*&es off, if they don’t get any!!
So they have discovered that 100 years of selective turkey breeding has been successful.
A lot of the professors at UVA used to spend their grant money to get hot undergrads to occasionally sleep with them.
I had a buddy that made quite the living selling new cars to UVA profs that had a new hottie on a string. The dealership was just over an hour from campus and my buddy was VERY discreet, making sure no potentially embarrassing mail got sent to the profs home.
The prof would bring his young sweetie to the dealership, she would pick out her car and my buddy would take care of the paperwork. An hour later Hot Thing is driving her new wheels to campus, prof has visions of hot undergrad sexiness and my buddy had a cash sale. Winner/Winner/Winner.
I need to come up with some ridiculous “study” for a million bucks.
We had SOME GA’s that - to dhis day - I have NO idea what the h&ll they were doing there.
When I was a student we called them ‘teacher's pet’ but now I guess, it's beyond that in college.
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