alt Hacker NewsTangential aside but what does this mean:
> live demonstrations on how to handle cattle to reduce stress.(Every cow pie released by a stressed-out cow before it gets weighed by meat processers amounts to $6 in lost profit.)
Tangential aside but what does this mean:
> live demonstrations on how to handle cattle to reduce stress.(Every cow pie released by a stressed-out cow before it gets weighed by meat processers amounts to $6 in lost profit.)
Ranchers get paid a flat per pound price for whole animals. When they take a shit, their total weight goes down and thus the ranchers lose the flat per pound price for that pile of shit, which evidently is about $6.