Exercise 8 thremmatologist The ultimate goal of those seriously involved in raising livestock is to produce animals with a high percentage of high quality meat and a low percentage of waste. Recently, livestock breeders have successfully developed a new breed of turkey whose market potential lies in its high proportion of white meat to dark. The most efficient way to improve stock, practised by an increasing number of ranches, is to hire a thremmatologist to advise in the purchase and mating of different breeds. The thremmatologist carefully researches the characteristics of each breed involved and then examines the bloodlines of the specific animals under consideration. The encouraging results of scientific monitoring are now giving rise to predictions that the age of made-to-order livestock is just around the

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