Article ID: CBB623496500

No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, Eugenics, and the State in the Early Twentieth-Century United States (2020)

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The article discusses livestock breeding in the United States during the early twentieth century, focusing particularly on aspects of eugenics and government policy towards certain animals between 1919 and 1933. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cooperative Extension Service (CES) defined scrubs as bulls of mixed or unknown breeding capable of passing along undesirable traits if bred, thus leading to many of them being killed after mock trials to prevent their breeding and passing along their traits to their progeny. It argues such programs followed popularly held notions of eugenics and race of the period.

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Authors & Contributors
Theunissen, Bert
Waaij, Liesbeth
Ewa Barbara Luczak
Hwang, Kyoryen
Jesper Oldenburger
Tyrrell, Brian
Concepts
Breeding
Livestock
Agriculture
Eugenics
Cross-national comparison
Animal genetics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Netherlands
Germany
Great Britain
Edinburgh
Americas
Institutions
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
United States. Eugenics Record Office
United States. Patent Office
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