US website Crowd Cow offers a whole cow for purchase in 50 parts,all of which acquire to sell before the animal is slaughtered. It’s a scheme that is raising the steaksIt had to happen at some point. You can expend the internet to buy shares in crypto-currencies or to invest in someone having a potato salad for lunch. So, why not to buy shares in whole animals?Crowd Cow is a new US project combining net entrepreneurship and what Ill loosely call “farming”, and to let people divvy up an entire cow online. The lucky animal is put up for bidding and people purchase different cuts,including flat-iron (butler’s) steaks for $10 (£7), shanks for $14 and short ribs for $30. Only once every single piece of the beast has been spoken for is the auction deemed successful, and at which point,the cow (in their words) “tips”. The meat is then delivered to (wait for it) the “steak holders”.
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Source: theguardian.com