Prepare to fall in love with Hammy

If a picture is worth a thousands words, then a video of a lovable hamster choosing between organic and regular produce is worth, like, 10,000 words, several “ahhhhs” and a hug. 

As the title of the pseudo-scientific experiment suggests, Hammy does indeed prefer organic food to conventional food, especially carrots, bananas and cheese. Overall, Hammy’s owners ran 75 grueling tests with six different foods.

The only conventional food Hammy preferred was walnuts. Despite what the video shows, Hammy is not a broccoli lover. He leaves the stuff alone 50 percent of the time. (It may have something to do with broccoli heads the size of his body.)

The final tally was organic 41 percent, conventional food 24 percent and indifference 35 percent. I did a quick calculation for standard deviation (I know, pretty worthless on a data set this small) and got +/- 6.5, which means that there is chance these numbers are all a coincidence. More likely Hammy has a good nose and the organic food smelled more natural.   

But does it really matter? Look how cute he is!

Via Cook’s Den.