Cattle

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy podcaster, comedy writer, and secret bird Katie Goldin (Creature Feature, @ProBirdRights) for a look at why cattle are secretly incredibly fascinating.

This is one of two episodes released on our Super Double Premiere Day! Find the other episode (“U.S. Post Offices”) in this podcast feed.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episodes.

LINKS FOR OUR GUEST:

• Katie Goldin’s podcast Creature Feature (iHeartRadio)
• Katie’s Twitter account
• Katie’s @ProBirdRights character Twitter account
• “When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide” (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• Museum of Durham History

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• “From Two Bulls, Nine Million Dairy Cows” by Maureen O’Hagan (Scientific American)
• In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America by Maureen Ogle
• Our World In Data: number of cattle, 2018 (University of Oxford)
• 5 countries have more cattle than people (Drovers Magazine)
• Why Are Americans Drinking Less Cow’s Milk? Its Appeal Has Curdled (NPR)
• Beef is back on the grill and its sales are heating up, too (USA Today)
• Shark Versus Cow: Which Is Deadlier? (ABC News)
• Highland Cattle (The Livestock Conservancy)
• Shortest cow (Guinness Book of World Records)
• Humongous Horns: Texas Longhorn From Alabama Sets Guinness World Record (NPR)
• Largest horn circumference on a bull ever (Guinness Book of World Records)
• Breeds of Livestock – Ankole-Watusi Cattle (Oklahoma State University)
• History of dairy cow breeds: Holstein (Michigan State University)
• Angus breed of cattle (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• 2018 pamphlet on Angus breed history by the Red Angus Association of America
• Certified Angus Beef: The Marketing Idea That Became The Gold Standard Of Meat Products (Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network)
• 3 Great Cows of American History (The Dairy Alliance)
• White House pet Pauline, who furnished milk and cream for the Taft household was pastured on the lawns of the White House and State Department, the latter shown in the background. (Library of Congress photo)
• AP FACT CHECK: Unraveling the mystery of whether cows fart
• Feeding Seaweed to Cows Could Curb Their Methane-Laden Burps (Discover)
• Energy Aspects of Manure Management (University of Illinois)
• Cow Manure and Elephant Dung Could Be Used to Make the Paper of the Future (Mental Floss)
• “Cow Tipping: Fake or Really Fake?” by Jake Swearingen (Modern Farmer)
• Naming cows isn’t udder nonsense (USA Today)
• HAPPYCOW, A Giant Spinning Brush That Cows Rub Up Against to Clean Themselves (Laughing Squid)
• The cows that queue up to milk themselves (BBC News)
• The Great Beefsteak Raid (The New York Times)
• Cattlemen Were Key To Cow Cavalry (The Orlando Sentinel)
• The Johnson County War (Wyoming State Historical Society)
• “What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire?” by Karen Abbott (Smithsonian)