If Gardner has his way, cows, sheep, goats, and pigs will cease to be "bovine, ovine, caprine, and porcine animals".
"I've never seen such an expression," Martin, the hero of his 2002 play "The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?," says of his caprine beloved.
But as the caprine dairy industry has flourished, so has its dubious back story.
7 Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave? 8 Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun? 9 Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
However, a US Department of Agriculture spokesperson said that while they discussed these regulations and are "drafting a proposed rule to address ovine (sheep) and caprine (goat) products", they "can't estimate when that rule will be finalized".
For several years now, my favorite microtouristic destination has been the Salon International de l'Agriculture, the enormous show that each spring brings the farmers of France together under the eight roofs of the Porte de Versailles convention center, accompanied by nearly four thousand of their bovine, ovine, caprine, porcine, equine, asinine, and canine companions.
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A non-caprine version is already approved for use in Europe and Japan, where the combined market is worth $250m a year.
Among the bovids, the alcelaphines (hartebeests, wildebeests, and relatives), gazelles, and some caprines (sheep, goats, and relatives) have two, the rest have four.
