{"id":2962,"date":"2006-08-10T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T22:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/08\/10\/fighting-obesity-one-cow-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T22:24:30","slug":"fighting-obesity-one-cow-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/08\/10\/fighting-obesity-one-cow-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Obesity, One Cow at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8718'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/minicow.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"251\" align=\"left\">Judy Dresser knows bigger is not always better, especially when<br \/>\n          it comes to livestock. On her Danville ranch live six miniature black<br \/>\n          Angus beef cows.<\/p>\n<p>        Dresser began breeding and selling the Australian-developed cattle for<br \/>\n        fun about two years ago and considers her designer beefers &quot;part<br \/>\n        of the family.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        Still, industry insiders say all types of diminutive cattle, of which<br \/>\n        about 26 different breeds exist &#8212; including mini-Herefords, Holsteins<br \/>\n        and Jerseys &#8212; are growing in popularity around the world, primarily<br \/>\n      as pets for moms with large back yards.      <\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/15240628.htm?source=rss&amp;channel=cctimes_news\">Contra Costa Times<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judy Dresser knows bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to livestock. On her Danville ranch live six miniature black Angus beef cows. Dresser began breeding and selling the Australian-developed cattle for fun about two years ago and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/08\/10\/fighting-obesity-one-cow-at-a-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}