In the “I’m not at all sure how I feel about this but however it is it’s strongly” department, it looks as if UC Davis Picnic Day, an annual open house kinda dealio with hundreds of exhibits from different departments and organizations, has, while my back was turned, dropped the Cole Facility’s fistulated cow from the schedule of events.
A fistulated cow is a cow into whose rumen a plastic window — a fistula — has been installled so that cowometrists can conduct close observation of the animal’s digestive system.
An anonymous pro-fistulated-cow GeoCities page says that the exhibit was dropped “due to political pressure.” I assume this means pressure from animal rights activists: I can’t imagine the GOP taking a stand on cow fistulation, unless it was to insist that Halliburton get the oil rights.
