From: keREM0VEvin_c75@yahMUNGEoo.com.bogus   
      
   On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:22:51 +1000, Aqua    
   wrote:   
      
   >I've just done some googling.  Chicken culling and cattle culling both   
   >clearly refer to killing/removal (most references are to diseased or old   
   >stock).  Kangaroo, koala and badger culling also refer to reducing   
   >over-large wild populations.  Fish cull and whale cull also refer to   
   >killing.  Some uses of "sheep cull" are ambiguous, but when they're not,   
   >it's clearly killing that is meant, and one reference is from a book   
   >called "Sheep management and Wool technology" where culling is *defined*   
   >as killing.  Horse cull gets me squillions of links to disputes about   
   >killing off feral horses.  The Wikipedia article on culling defines it   
   >as killing and doesn't even note (that I can see) that it's ever been   
   >used to mean select in a positive sense.   
   >   
   >So it's time to put up or shut up: where is it still the standard use of   
   >"cull" to mean select breeding stock?   
   >   
   >Aqua   
      
   If I may interject:   
      
   The current usage of the term cull in the U.S. means inferior for   
   market. In vegetable farming, the culls are often turned under in the   
   field or given away free to farm workers, friends, and family. With   
   livestock, it used to be that the culls were what made it to the   
   farmer's table.   
      
   Keep in mind that any blemish or substandard size means a vegetable or   
   livestock won't bring as high a price or will be rejected outright.   
   Thus there may not be anything edible wrong with a cull.   
      
   What they do with livestock culls today I don't have a clue, but I   
   suspect they get used for non-human consumption.   
      
   - Kevin J. Cheek   
      
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