India's new attempts to eradicate brucellosis without slaughtering cows.
This story was originally published by Undark and has been republished here with permission. In 2015, Vikas Gupta was ready for a change. Then the head of international marketing at a large corporation in Mumbai, the 42-year-old decided to give it all up, return to his home state of Haryana in northwest India, and become a dairy farmer. To ease his transition into a field that he knew nothing about, Gupta began speaking to hundreds of veterinarians, animal health researchers, and cattle farmers across the country. As he did, he noticed one thing kept cropping up in his conversations. Adve...