Comments on: Hole-y Cow

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:45:49 +0000

And exactly how did the scientists know for certain that the animal was in no pain at all?

By: Washington Irving

Washington Irving — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:28:21 +0000

Funny that they go through all the trouble to learn about what foods are best for cows, when we already know that it’s GRASS – the stuff their digestive tracts evolved to process! Then we feed them corn anyway! Ha ha ha, this process isn’t to see what foods are best for cows’ digestion; it’s to see what the cheapest crap is that we can feed them and get away with!

By: just_me

just_me — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:41:13 +0000

I know this is a pretty old article, and please forgive me for reviving it, but as a medical student, I must pick on this a little bit…

“I don’t think nerves are anywhere near as sensitive on your insides. Many organs have virtually no nerves, such as the brain, which can be poked and moved around without you feeling much. :D”

your brain is probably the worst example you can give of a “nerve-less” organ, it is literally comprised of all nervous tissue. nerves are bundles of nervous tissue. While the brain may not have pain receptors, or pressure receptors, (called nociceptors and baroceptors respectively), it quite certainly has nervous tissue.

again, my apologies. *end rant*

By: Abigail Perez

Abigail Perez — Sat, 10 May 2014 06:17:09 +0000

I can see that you post only those that agree or have no gutts to tell you that you’re sick. Dont really care, as long as you know that nature didnt intend for these types of animal treatments and you will some day see, it will come back to haunt you.

By: Prabhashini

Prabhashini — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:32:57 +0000

The practical is better, but you want to take a control methods to reduce the pain & fear of the animal that you used for that practicle

By: hilendar

hilendar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:04:43 +0000

You can see this on TV. On an episode of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs show, the host, Mike Rowe, visits the University of Arkansas where they have a Jersey cow with a fistula. They even put a camera inside to watch the digestion!

By: IAMLEGEND

IAMLEGEND — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:14:48 +0000

They have been doing this for a long time at Mississippi State University. I remember going on a field trip in kindegarten and sticking my hand in one of these cows at MSU.

By: robbmyers

robbmyers — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:45:22 +0000

Up here in Fairbanks, we have a research at the university that studies musk oxen. They have a musk ox with a fistula. From what I understand, it’s not really any different from the ones for cows. They just have to be a little more careful when taking samples. They say that the musk oxen are, shall we say, “semi-domesticated.”

By: enar

enar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:45:07 +0000

it was good.. through fistulation, man can improve the livestock production. i hope Central Luzon State University vetmed students headed by Maam Darlene Fe Castro can perform that too.. it will be a great experiment by batch teratogens.. Ahehehe. Go CLSU vets,,

By: CassandraJ

CassandraJ — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:13:24 +0000

I remember my grade 5 teacher telling me about the guys with the hole in his stomach and to this day I still kinda have nightmares about it.

Not saying it’s wrong to do but it just makes me cringe.