
Episode 35 – Professor James Harcombe
Beef And Dairy Network
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The History of Cattle
In the first world war, bullocks as young as three months were serving on the front line. The use of cattle in warfare is long standing. Cattle are there. We're told that the trojan horse was indeed a horse but it was clearly a trojan cow filled with other smaller cattle. There has been something of a washing of history going back even to ancient times. It's become very triendly, very fashionable, to attribute everything in history to horses. What we have to bear in mind is that there were no horses in this country until te the mitilate sixties. How is it now that we have a horse? Where did that come from? I mean
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