Marge the cow

“Marge was singled out in 2001 when the company bought her from her owner for £120 and then sent her to a secret location.“ Why the secrecy? It turns out that Marge is a cow that produces skim milk all on her own with no filtering. Her milk is also high in all the important Omega-3 fatty acids and what’s more, her female calves have all inherited the trait. According to this article in the Scotsman, Marge and her offspring are the result of a $110 million research program going on in New Zealand by the biotech company ViaLactia. If they succeed at breeding bulls that can pass on Marge’s skim milk trait we are well on our way to yet another species with a narrow gene pool. It’s working well for the cheetah.

Photo taken from AnaC.Ramirez’ Flickr stream.

posted by Alex Herder on 28 May 2007
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