Designer
Milk and Green Cows
White Revolution Predicted
ANI 26nov02
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note:
Will they always try to
change the nature of nature?
This really is quite pathetic when one realizes that
the purpose each fix is to solve the problems with
the previous fix.
Sydney -
Old MacDonald
will be surprised when he sees what is headed
for his dairy farm - specially bred cows that
naturally produce low-fat milk, designer milk
that boosts the immune system, and green
cows, engineered to produce less methane to
help stem global warming.
All are
among the changes predicted for the future of
the milk and dairy industry over the next 50
years. These developments have been reported
in the Journal of Agriculture and Food
Chemistry. Lawrence K Creamer from the
Fonterra Research Centre in New Zealand and
his associates wrote the report.
Among
the predictions:
Designer milk - Organic milks are
already available at supermarkets, but a new
breed of designer milks are on the drawing
board that will boost immunity, improve
lactose utilization and relieve diarrhoea.
Advances in biotechnology have made it all
possible.
Naturally low-fat milk - Recent
advances in biotechnology have identified a
gene for milkfat synthesis that may one day
allow scientists to selectively breed cows
that naturally produce low- fat milk.
Green cows - Researchers are trying to
develop green cows. No, not green-colored
cows, but environmentally cleaner cows.
Cattle, via belching, produce a significant
amount of methane as a result of digestion.
Methane (from cows and other sources) is a
major contributor to the greenhouse effect in
the atmosphere, second only to carbon
dioxide, which many scientists think
contributes to global warming. Researchers
believe that they can alter cattle digestion,
either by removing the microorganisms that
produce methane from their stomachs or by
creating microorganisms that can produce
metabolic products other than methane.
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