CN China claims it successfully cloned 3 ‘super cows’ that make vastly more milk than normal cows do - The scientists say they plan to build a herd of 1,000 super cows in the next two to three years.

• China claims it's cloned three cows that make up to 18 metric tons of milk per year.
• "Super cows" are hard to breed since they're identified at the end of their lives, per state-affiliated media.
• The scientists say they plan to build a herd of 1,000 super cows in the next two to three years.

Scientists in China have cloned three cows that produce abnormally high amounts of milk, state-affiliated media claimed on Tuesday.

The three calves were birthed in the Ningxia region by a team from the Northwest University of Agricultural and Forestry Science and Technology, just before the Chinese New Year began on January 22, per local outlet Ningxia Daily.

The calves were cloned from "super cows" — unusually productive cows that can make 18 metric tons of milk per year and 100 tons of milk in their lifetimes, pro-government tabloid The Global Times reported.

In comparison, the average milk-producing cow in the US makes around 10.8 metric tons of milk per year, per the US Department of Agriculture's latest figures.

Only five in 10,000 of common cattle breeds in China can produce as much milk as a super cow, said the scientists, per The Global Times.

And because cattle are only designated as super cows at the end of their lives, it's difficult to breed them after they've been identified, said the project lead, Jin Yaping, per the outlet.

Jin said his team "reincarnated" the super cows to help bolster China's local milk production, which has struggled to meet domestic demand amid surging feed costs. China also heavily relies on importing cattle from Europe.

Jin's team used tissue from the cows' ears to make an initial batch of 120 cloned embryos, 42% of which were successfully impregnated in surrogate cows and 17.5% of which remained fertile after 200 days, The Global Times reported.

The scientists highlighted how one of the calves had the exact same skin pattern as its predecessor, reported the outlet.

"We plan to take two to three years to build up a herd comprised of over 1,000 super cows," Jin said, per The Global Times.

Jin did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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[No. 7 cat]

Hmm, no 1 Commie science! claims and no 2 Commie Chinese scientists having an indifference to basic scientific ethics. Wary.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Didn't China claim to have done the first human head to a new body transplant a while ago?

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

Fidel Castro is rising out his grave as I'm typing this.

 

[Dirty Larry]

Bold of China to clone three Ralphamales

 

[Übertroon]

So what happens if the offspring of a clone cow has a child with a clone of his mother?

 

[Cringe newfag]

Didn't China claim to have done the first human head to a new body transplant a while ago?

IDK. There was some scientist who claimed to have performed something crazy (first designer baby I think?). But the government was like "woah woah we did not give this guy permission, wtf" and he got disappeared.

 

[TowinKarz]

Does the milk come pre-tainted with mine waste? If not, I'm disappointed in you, CCP.

 

[FudgeFish]

But most of Asia is lactose intolerant? I'm so confused by this.

 

[Underperforming]

These cows need threads.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

But most of Asia is lactose intolerant? I'm so confused by this.

Not all

 

[Blacklight]

Ubre Blanca rises from her grave.

 

[Weed Eater]

Thank god I'm not the only one who immediately thought of Fidel Castro and the majestic soul of Ubre Blanca.

May Castro's ice cream dreams live on.

 

[Smug]

lactose intolerant?

Just eat some yoghurt or something bro. I could convince myself I was lactose intolerant when I've had a completely fucked diet, but after a day or two of eating normally, like magic, I'm totally fine.

If asians simply have inferior gut biomes regardless then someone ought to think about reactive biological warfare as a deterrent to any aggression from them. If they care that much about cows then either that's a load of bullshit, or they are making bank on milk exports.

 

[Crex Crex]

They're Chinese so they probably will die in 2 years.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

The calves were cloned from "super cows" — unusually productive cows that can make 18 metric tons of milk per year and 100 tons of milk in their lifetimes, pro-government tabloid The Global Times reported.

In comparison, the average milk-producing cow in the US makes around 10.8 metric tons of milk per year, per the US Department of Agriculture's latest figures.

So they claim to make 1.7x as much milk as a normal cow, assuming American cows are a fair baseline.

"Super cows" are hard to breed since they're identified at the end of their lives, per state-affiliated media.

18 tons per year, 100 tons per lifetime means they produce 5.88 years worth of milk at max production. If cows output less milk in the beginning than at the end, then it takes longer to produce 100 tons.

How is it so hard to just measure what comes out and flag any cow with above average production before its nearly dead? They have at least half a decade to do it.

This would make some sense if the cows produced more by living longer (and by being unable to breed during the additional years of life), but if they produce more on a yearly basis... They should be easy to identify, if you're looking for them.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Oh great. Milk that's 30% pus, carcinogenic, and probably swimming with bovine covid, bovid if you will.

 

[The handsome tard]

My creative brain is just thinking of all the ways this could devolve into some horrible biological disaster with monster cows getting out of control or mutants that eat their meat and drink their milk.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Still can't match Abigail Shapiro

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

I hope they generate there times as much greenhouse gases too, just to piss off Bill Gates who backed up a start-up tackling cow burps and farts and the rest of the muh climate change globohomo.