MSNBC article and link switcheroos
The MSNBC article: "What me Sacrifice Take 2" is interesting in its self. But if you click on the link given for the study it references: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1740-0929.2007.00455.x
you find not the article on "The study, published in the August issue of Animal Science Journal, examines beef production from calf birth to slaughter, including transporting feed but not the meat." You find "Effect of environmental enrichment by providing trees as rubbing objects in grassland: Grazing cattle need tree-grooming"
Do I smell a coverup? Is the Animal Science Journal trying to hide that article now that it's been linked to from MSNBC and Newsweek. The other link to "the British weekly New Scientist" doesn't come up at all for me.
Doing a search with the search box on the right side of that screen by checking "animal welfare" and "cattle" yields a lot of interesting articles that I'm going to be reading the abstracts of for quite a while!
I just realized that I didn't put the link in for the MSNBC/Newweek article itself:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2007/07/18/what-me-sacrifice-take-2.aspx
The other link: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19526134.500-meat-is-murde...
does come up now and it has a working link to the study reference in the MSNBC/Newsweek article but you have to buy a subscription to read the whole article:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1740-0929.2007.00457.x
I'm obviously interested (and I hope, interesting as a person). I'd like to read the whole article, living as I am in the middle of ranching country where if the wind is from the right direction you can smell the wonderful smell of great herds of cattle. I'd also like to have it available if I ever get into a *rational* discussion with a rancher. I doubt if the "discussion" would ever be rational on their part since it would involve their livelihood and in many cases several generations of tradition.
If you have the time, don't "go out of your way" just for me, though.
Interesting, you'd think that if she was really interested in making her point to skeptical people, she'd get her references correct. I found other interesting articles that I can download the whole article in pdf form so I have plenty to read when I'm bored and nothing much is happening over here at vegweb. Thanks for looking at it for me, though.