Breed contra Beef. The making of Piedmontese Cattle
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the spring of 2014, one of the authors (Paolo) was visiting the Green Market on Union Square, NYC, one of the most renowned farmers' markets in the United States, performing a direct connection between producers and consumers of food, allegedly alternative to the mass retail channel (Tiemann, 2008), but also promoting what Sharon Zukin terms, from a critical standpoint, 'the consumption of authenticity' (2008).Exactly in the middle of the square, a farmer from Pennsylvania displayed a sign to attract costumers claiming 'Piedmontese Only'.Less than half a mile away, on Madison Square, at Eataly -the sumptuous sanctuary of 'high quality' Italian foodthe sophisticated New York consumer could already purchase a taste of Piedmontese beef at the butcher's counter and at the Manzo restaurant (literally 'beef' in Italian) since the opening of the food mall, on 30 August 2010.The Piedmontese was officially recognized as a cattle breed in the 1850s.Today, it is the first presidium established by Slow Food in 1996 in Bra, Piedmont. 1 Its beef is now well renowned among gastronomists and listed in Michelin starred restaurants (NAPA, 2010, p.6) and it is Eataly's official beef in Italy and the US.But, which is, exactly, the link connecting these moments and places and which establishes a relationship between an apparently endangered cattle breed in the motherland of Slow Food and the sophisticated consumption practices of the world elites in New York City?La Granda, in its twofold role as a socio-cultural and economic actor, provides the most obvious nexus, which articulates the connection between the past
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it