I am not making this up:
As China was growing in the 1980s, they wanted good old USA stock of prime beef and dairy. How to get it there? Well, we in the USA would remove embryos from prime Bessie, transfer it to a live rabbit, and ship the rabbit to China with the cow embryo inside, and then the Chinese would transfer the embryo to some Chinese Bovine host to carry the embryo to term.
(No lighthearted tales of rabbits escaping and carrying a calf to term.)
China eventually built up enough stock to end this practice and breed their own, but there is the problem of epigenetics which gets you good and bad, but in any case uncontrollable results (so far).
Expertise in a narrow field gives you an advantage, such as exporting dairy cattle.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
As China was growing in the 1980s, they wanted good old USA stock of prime beef and dairy. How to get it there? Well, we in the USA would remove embryos from prime Bessie, transfer it to a live rabbit, and ship the rabbit to China with the cow embryo inside, and then the Chinese would transfer the embryo to some Chinese Bovine host to carry the embryo to term.
(No lighthearted tales of rabbits escaping and carrying a calf to term.)
China eventually built up enough stock to end this practice and breed their own, but there is the problem of epigenetics which gets you good and bad, but in any case uncontrollable results (so far).
Expertise in a narrow field gives you an advantage, such as exporting dairy cattle.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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