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The developments outlined in Chapter 5 set the stage for the late-twentieth-century invention of “Traditional” Hereford cattle, defined as those animals whose entire lineage could be traced to individuals bred only within the British Isles. Traditional Herefords became central players in rare breeds conservation—a revival of interest in “native” British breeds, many of which had been pushed to the side lines of the livestock industry in favour of larger, faster-maturing, and meatier foreign breeds. As Canadian and American Herefords returned to their erstwhile native land beginning in the 1970s, proponents of the English variety privileged environmental factors over shared genetic roots in their delineation between Traditional and modern Herefords. Such a stance implicitly denied imperialism as a reciprocal process in which the creole formations of the colonies come “home” to roost. |
