One note though: that is NOT a genetically modified cow, at least
not in the artificial sense. It was just bred the old fashioned way ...
the way they bred Great Danes and toy poodles. And meat
chickens.
It does show something important: which is that muscle mass
does not necessarily equal strength. The body builders that do
the "eat 5x a day" thing are going for muscle MASS ... big thick
muscle steaks, basically. If you want to make a chicken or cow
look like that, you feed them a high protein diet (and start with
an animal that wants to put on muscle).
If you look at strong, healthy animals though ... like say deer,
who can jump a 6 foot fence, or a goose that can migrate a
thousand miles, or a chimp that is 6x as strong as a man ...
they have very little muscle mass. Their muscles are insanely
strong, and quite small. The super-cow, on the other hand,
is exactly the opposite: large amounts of muscle, which is
also quite weak (and therefore tender).
The "big muscles = health" is another myth of our age, IMO.
Goes right along with the "graze all day long" myth.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:57 AM, RickS <rstewart@iaff.org> wrote:
> OK, I have to post this and then I won't say another word. :) Take a look at this genetically modified cow. It's so muscular that it can't mate! They have to be artificially inseminated... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmkj5gq1cQU
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