werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (08/30/85)
<> An interesting snippet: The government of China has contracted with a Tennessee farmer to ship a herd of, well, frozen cattle embryos to China. (It was easier than shipping a herd of cattle.) These will be implanted in Chinese cows to improve their livestock. China's dairy cattle are scrawny, inbred and rare. They are such lousy milk producers that only about 2% of the population ever gets milk. However, the demand is there. On the black market, a gallon of mild regularly sells for the equivalent of about a week's wages. Tennessee cows on the other hand, are some of the best milk producers in the world, which is what attracted the Chinese' attention. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"