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A project involving cloned super cows to ramp up dairy output is making progress in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, a scientist with the Northwest A&F University told the Global Times on Saturday.
Researchers from the Northwest University of Agricultural and Forestry Science and Technology bred and brought to life the three calves that can produce abundant milk.
Scientists recently cloned three “super cows” to produce more milk, but the “innovation” also comes with a slew of problems.
Chinese scientists have cloned three "super cows" able to produce 18 metric tons of milk per year and more than 100 tons of milk over the course of their lifetimes, which may help reduce China's dependency on imported dairy cows.
In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration in the US concluded that meat and milk from clones are as safe as equivalents from conventionally bred animals.Wang Bingke, one of the scientists involved in cloning the cattle, said that the milk was the same as that produced by the original cows.