Tinder-Style App For Cows Tries To Help the Meat Market (bbc.com) 62
So you think the dating scene is like a meat market? Well, wait till you hear about the latest matchmaking app. From a report: Following the example of Tinder, UK farming start-up Hectare has launched its own equivalent for livestock and called it Tudder. The app features data profiles of animals from 42,000 UK farms in an effort to help farmers find the perfect breeding partner for their cattle. Farmers can view pictures of bulls or cows and swipe right to show interest. Hectare Agritech, which also runs online grain marketplace Graindex, says its aim is "reinventing farm trading - and making farmers' lives easier". It says it has raised more than $3.8 million from investors and organisations, including grant funding from government schemes, while tennis player Andy Murray is listed as one of its investors.
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Of course, Apple can make this impossible, as they restrict apps to certain types of devices. Android doesn't do this (yet).
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They don't play football in New Zealand. They play rugby.
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It's a version of the app customized for rednecks. They're going to call it either Tinbred or Tsister.
I wonder if those who modded you up would have done the same if you'd used "Koran Belt" instead.
I'm sure whoever modded you up prides himself on his "tolerance".
As if.
Way to demonstrate bigotry.
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I wonder if YOU ever stopped to consider that a fundamentalist Muslim has a lot more in common with a fundamentalist, Bible Belt Christian than with rational people.
Wake up, Snowflake.
Re:I hear there's a Bible Belt version coming out (Score:5, Funny)
Hectare Agritech, which also runs online grain marketplace Graindex
Missed opportunity for Graindr
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You win the Internet. That is truly hilarious!
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I should have read your comment first. You beat me to it. Mind you, I was a bit ruder than you to the little slimeball.
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Those "powerless" people elected Donald Trump, and we're all paying for their willful ignorance and outright stupidity.
The comment that bothers you isn't "punching down". It's kicking up, with humor, right at the crotch of violence-prone, reality-averse cretins who are enthusiastically participating in an on-going attempt to cheapen, demean and damage the United States of America.
If you're OK with that, you're part of the problem.
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Wow, you're really punching down on the poor. What happened to sympathy for the plight of the working class? Doesn't the Left basically worship them? And America is a racist, colonialist white supremacist warmonger country. Why are you worried its capabilities are being diminished?
You're a classist bigot. How's it feel, being a bigot? Like all bigots, you're proud of your bigotry and display it in public with no shame.
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I guess you're upset, being caught and called out for being a prancing, classist bigot. I can understand that. I bet you wish you could recall the comment where you revealed that you think you're a cut above the rednecks you claim to support.
Do you also ride to the rescue of damsels in distress, then rape them as soon as you get a chance? I bet you do.
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Wow, did you just INVENT something out of your own brain, and then tell me that's what I am, and then hate me for it? What-tha-fuuuuuck. Seriously?
You're taking these ugly thoughts you have inside you, projecting them on The Other, and then shouting at what you hate. But it's not me at all - it's you that you hate. This is called psychological projection and it is a common defense mechanism.
"Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impul
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Implicit in your ridiculous comment is that you also consider rednecks to be beneath you.
The irony is just too perfect! Thanks for the chuckle, you bigoted, classist prick.
Should call it "Tender" (Score:2)
I've legally changed my name to "Anonymous".
Actual cows?? (Score:2)
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Re: Actual cows?? (Score:2)
Want her number??
The high tech farm industry. (Score:4, Insightful)
We all love to laugh at the farming industry, we picture rednecks with their pickup trucks, and their guns, just doing heavy labor.
However the farming industry is rather high tech, there is a lot more technology that goes on then a lot of silicon valley companies.
A lot of the Big Data, AI, Automation and Robotics technology that we are seeing going out to the normal public, have often been implemented in farms for years.
Being that these places need a lot of land to operate, they are often in remote locations, so tools like this article states, is a useful too to farmers to help cordenate their livestock with others.
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We all love to laugh at the farming industry, we picture rednecks with their pickup trucks, and their guns, just doing heavy labor.
However the farming industry is rather high tech, there is a lot more technology that goes on then a lot of silicon valley companies.
A lot of the Big Data, AI, Automation and Robotics technology that we are seeing going out to the normal public, have often been implemented in farms for years.
Being that these places need a lot of land to operate, they are often in remote locations, so tools like this article states, is a useful too to farmers to help cordenate their livestock with others.
My family's farm went from natural breeding to all artificial insemination during my childhood, and then my parents took the dairy buyout ... that was 30 years ago. They didn't exactly sent out for vials of random semen, you had catalogs of options. Having a "dating app for cows" isn't even a particularly interesting idea, it maybe makes certain things more convenient but it's not a game-changer in any way. Contrast that with human dating apps, where it changes your entire approach to the project.
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So just go to the web. You don't need an "app" for this. If you don't already know who has bulls for your breed of cows then you're a noob and need to start socializing with other ranchers.
what a load of bull (Score:2)
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what a load of bull
That is the whole idea
the market? (Score:1)
Shouldn't that be the "meat meet" market?
OK, or the "meet meat" market. Although that sounds like Tom Thumb or Safeway.
What's new here? (Score:3)
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Re: No meat, more potatoes (Score:1)
Eat your carbs and enjoy your cancer, diabeties and other nasties coming from too much carbs
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I eat cows, pigs and lambs because they taste so good. You people are like Trappist monks, though without the inner peace.
Enjoy your high-sanctimonium diet. Just don't bother the rest of us. We have some grilling to do.
regenerative ag platform (Score:1)
it'll be abused (Score:2)
They should start one for sheep! (Score:1)
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Why not, there is already one for goats.
Don't take it personally Bessy (Score:2)
It's all just a meat market.
Time for #MeMoo (Score:2)
Sounds OK so far but how do they make sure that the cow isn't being forced but consents to having sex with the farmer?