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Based on my experience in academia in my country, and from what I read about academia worldwide, I'd say it was indeed very likely bought from ordinary store, s
by ansgri 2y ago
Based on my experience in academia in my country, and from what I read about academia worldwide, I'd say it was indeed very likely bought from ordinary store, since it's not a department dealing specifically with food (thus having convenient access to samples). Often a group of researchers just looks for a random important-sounding subject to apply whatever methods they are familiar with and don't think much about the domain they're getting into. Sometimes the result turns out interesting, more often they publish it wherever they can and move on.
- SamBam 2y agoExcept that they literally said "was supplied by the commercial processing facility." I don't see any reason to doubt their word. And as someone who also works in academia, in the kind of mushy low-budget research that these folks might be in, I take issue with the idea that we assume they couldn't just pick up the phone and call the meat processing plant. It's really not hard to do. I've randomly bought fish from fish processing plants, for my own personal consumption, and I didn't even have a grant and a grad student to do it.