SocraticGadfly: Science is not always the answer to food needs

September 29, 2009

Science is not always the answer to food needs

You could also file this under “milking cows for far more than they’re worth.”

New techniques allow semen differentiation to greatly increase the heifer-bullock ratio in cow conceptions. This was especially focused on the dairy biz.

After all, in beef cattle, you can always snip a bull into a steer. But, jokes aside, you still can’t milk him.

Just one problem. This alleged technological godsend has come along just as prices for milk have cratered. And, there’s already too many milk cows on the market.

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