Butterflies, fish, mollusks, amphibians and birds have been known to sport eye designs on their bodies to help them survive against other creatures looking for a snack. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, 45 missing children 'rescued from this evil', Burger King is taking a page out of McDonald's playbook, with Amazon-esque drive-thrus that predict what you want to order, Scientists paint eyes on cow butts (for the animals' own good, really). If you need to flag this entry as abusive, Breaking news, analysis and the latest polls on the presidential race from HuffPost’s politics team, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today, An essential daily guide to achieving the good life. News reports identified the hard drive's source as a computer repair shop owner in Delaware. "To our knowledge, our research is the first time eyespots have been shown to deter large mammalian predators," UNSW Ph.D. student and study co-author Cameron Radford said. The lack of beef in their beef isn’t one of them, though.

Head over to Taipei where you can eat rooster testicles, in their little scrotums, either steamed plain or fried-up spicy to cover up the funk. Sure brains, balls, and eyes get dressed up in fancy sauces and come with snobby sides just like other foul-smelling, weird-textured chunks in the offal bunch. "Indeed we need to do much better than a silver bullet if we are to ensure the successful coexistence of livestock and large carnivores. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com.

Sure brains, balls, and eyes get dressed up in fancy sauces and come with snobby sides just like other foul-smelling, weird-textured chunks in the offal bunch. Which means wherever there's a bull there's a ball. who the heck would want cow eyeballs?

Animals using fake eyes to confuse and detract predators is nothing new.

Claim:   The McDonald’s restaurant chain is the world’s largest purchaser of cow eyeballs. For their study, the scientists painted one-third of each herd with an eye design on the cows' butts and one-third with simple cross marks.

But eyeballs aren't just crazy Asian food. African, Chinese and Indonesian populations do love their monkey brains.

Sure brains, balls, and eyes get dressed up in fancy sauces and come with snobby sides just like other foul-smelling, weird-textured chunks in the offal bunch. Some versions of this rumor posit that the cow eyes are used only as hamburger filler, or to make beef patties stick together better, or as tenderizer, or as thickener in milk shakes. Scientists paint eyes on cow butts in Africa to confuse predators like lions. This edible eyeball recipe is tasty and gross at the same time. Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Cats have a reputation for disobeying their owners — why would they start listening now? We don’t know what the going rate for cow eyeballs is, but we suspect that — just like worms — they’re too expensive to be practical as an alternative to real beef for a restaurant chain looking to save on their food costs. However, no mammals naturally produce a fake eye design on their bodies to help against attacks. This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform. Similar expressions of this anxiety have resulted in widespread tales about McDonald’s making hamburgers from worm meat, using chicken feathers in their shakes, and even purchasing food supplies from a company named “100% Beef” so that they can put any old dreck in their burgers while still legitimately advertising that they use “100% Beef "Cattle marked with simple crosses were significantly more likely to survive than were unmarked cattle from the same herd," Jordan said.

That's pussy sh*t. We boiled it down to the barf-inducing basics: brains, balls and eyes. Whatever the market price of cow eyeballs, the idea of using them as filler in beef (or even in place of beef) just isn’t practical. Big and bulbous?

"Although eye-marked cattle were more likely to survive than the other groups, this general 'conspicuousness' effect suggests that novel cross-marks were better than no marks at all, which was unexpected.". We'll give them this: "Operation Snopes-Piercer" isn't the worst name we've heard for a smear campaign.

Painting eyes on cow butts might sound like a prank instigated by bored teenagers, but it's actually a clever tactic ranchers in South Africa are using to help protect their livestock from lions and other ambush predators. The researchers found that cattle painted with artificial eyes were significantly more likely to survive than unpainted or cross-painted control cattle within the same herd. Like them small and dainty? All rights reserved. Instead, you'll be getting a whole bunch of balls in your mouth. Recently, the ever-experimental American foodie culture started digging around for organs with top restaurants featuring hearts, livers and kidneys on their menus.

The perfect spooky Halloween treat! World cuisine is balls-deep in testicles. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became a topic of speculation after photographs seemingly showed his hands looking bruised and discolored. But we're hoping this simple, low-cost, non-lethal approach could reduce the costs of coexistence for those farmers bearing the brunt.". "We think this may suggest the presence of an inherent response to eyes that could be exploited to modify behavior in practical situations -- such as to prevent human-wildlife conflicts and reduce criminal activity in humans.". All of their hamburgers are made from “100% beef patties”; furthermore, they define “beef patty” as being “100% pure USDA inspected beef; no additives, no fillers, no extenders.” This means exactly what it says. When the USDA grades beef, it grades beef; it doesn’t allow beef marketers to use the word as if it merely meant “cow parts.” Some versions of …

The wholesale price of beef for companies who purchase as much of it as McDonald’s does is already very low, and the amount of “eyeball meat” available per cow is miniscule compared to the amount of “real” beef produced per animal. Spain's your spot with their bull ball bounty. If you really don’t want to eat at McDonald’s, it’s not hard to come up with a few legitimate reasons not to. OTP Fun Fact: If you need some brain in you right fucking now, head down to the South where you can pick up a can of "pork brains in milk gravy." While it's unlikely that they're eaten straight from the skull like horror films would lead you to believe, there are certain ceremonial practices in Cameroon where a newly-appointed chief munches on some gorilla brain while his co-captain digs into the heart.

You’d think they’d be dirt cheap, because after all. OTP Tip: If you ever order "mountain oysters" or "lamb fries" on a menu, don't expect fish or potatoes. "Lions are ambush predators that rely on stalking, and therefore the element of surprise, so being seen by their prey can lead to them abandoning the hunt," researcher Neil Jordan, a study co-author from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, said in a statement.

Using internal emails, sworn testimony, and other documents, Snopes was able to break down exactly how the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) worked to "generate, create, organize and weaponize" misleading narratives. Whether or not the scientists found inspiration in the kids' story or came up with the idea on their own, painting eyes on cow butts could end up helping farmers save both money and time in protecting their livestock. Part of HuffPost Travel.

Chinese tradition (or just them being kinda jerky to unsuspecting foreigners) dictates that the "guest of honor" at a house party where a whole fish is served will receive the fish eyes in their wine glass and must drink them down whole. Get smarter, see better, and grow some big 'ol huevos while satisfying your hunger for the absurd. The cholesterol in this thing will put your arteries in a chokehold. Start by pinning down how big you'd like your balls and the world will feed you your fill. When the USDA grades beef, it grades beef; it doesn’t allow beef marketers to use the word as if it merely meant “cow parts.”.

Interestingly, painting eyes on animal butts to scare off predators was an idea used in the children's story about the character Babar, who paints eyes on the hind flanks of elephants to scare off rhinoceroses threatening to attack. Let's get started. Help preserve this vital resource. ©2020 Verizon Media. products.”.

Popping one in your mouth and bursting through the cornea is just like eating a grape, only fishier and chewier. "The eye-cow technique is one of a number of tools that can prevent carnivore-livestock conflict, but no single tool is likely to be a silver bullet," Jordan said. India pumps out spicy goat brain curries, Mexico fries up brain tacos (tacos de sesos), China throws a bit of pig brain into your breakfast omelet to stir up some smarts, and France, Spain and Italy have all kinds of traditional dishes that include beef brains.

If you really have your doubts about this one, check out the ingredient lists on the McDonald’s web site. The Middle East grills up some nasty lamb testicle kebabs that fit the bill.

They left the rest without any markings. Animals using fake eyes to confuse and detract predators, children's story about the character Babar. Aside from monkeys, the brains of squirrels, goats, pigs, cows, horses and just about goddamn anything with a pulse can be whipped up for lunch. In Iceland, "svio" is a traditional dish where an entire sheep's head is boiled, split in two, and served to you on a plate, with the eyeball firmly attached. The eyes on the cow rumps could offer a more humane alternative to lethal control (shooting the predators), as well as a more ecological way … OTP Fun Fact: Interestingly enough, while they'll down sheep's eyes in Iceland, eating their brains is a big no-no.

Researchers worked with farmers in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana to paint cattle in 14 herds (with up to 100 cattle per herd) struggling with lion attacks. Male animals raised for meat are often castrated before they start getting too manly with their balls. Examples:   [Collected on the Internet, 1999], Origins:   The claim that McDonald’s is the world’s largest purchaser of cow eyeballs shares roots with many other “beware of fast food” legends; in this particular case, the sentiment is of the “huge fast food corporations only care about profits, so they’ll put anything they can (legally) get away with in their food to save money” variety. Into something midsize between the thighs? Conspiracies are often in the eye of the beholder. The scientists from UNSW Sydney, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, and Botswana Predator Conservation released their data in a new study published Aug. 7 in the journal Communications Biology.

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