MARINA ZURKOW
These days, very little would make me happier than to get on the train that asks Americans to reconceive their relationship to beef, by removing the cow at the end of the line. Just NOW on the NYT site, “Engineering the $325,000 Burger.” The idea of creating meat in a laboratory — actual animal tissue,…
This just in from Venue, an online mag produced by StudioX. INVISIBLE FENCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH DEAN ANDERSON (10 gallon) hats off to Studio-x for mixing urban and non-urban considerations of architecture. I’ve been ruminating (yes) about how to better interface with and represent ecocritical investigations on remote public lands, and have the work BE more salient…
Chris Leyland, manager of the cattle, takes us on a tour – the park has some ancient alder trees Alder and cattle in bg Sometimes called “Fairy Cattle” for the unique red fur in ther ears They darken in color as they get older definitely curious about us, but on their own terms the oldest…
Wild Chillingham Cattle are known as “fairy cattle” for their small size and tufted red fur in their ears; they are genetically distinct from any other (including their relatives the White Park Cattle, who have black ear fur).
Nice overview of the cattle- history and genetics found at the BBC web site. The cattle, who live in northern Northumberland, have been inbred for 700 years; in the 13th century the park around Chillingham Castle was enclosed to protect the cattle from the Border Reiver rustlers. These are wild cattle that have never been…