{"id":287,"date":"2007-05-28T11:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-05-28T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T11:37:06","slug":"margethecow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/margethecow\/","title":{"rendered":"Marge the cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/CowBeingMilked.png!\n\"_Marge was singled out in 2001 when the company bought her from her owner for \u00a3120 and then sent her to a secret location._\"  Why the secrecy?  It turns out that Marge is a cow that produces skim milk all on her own with no filtering.  Her milk is also high in all the important Omega-3 fatty acids and what's more, her female calves have all inherited the trait.  According to \"this article\":<a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=825282007\">http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scitech.cfm?id=825282007<\/a> in the Scotsman, Marge and her offspring are the result of a $110 million research program going on in New Zealand by the biotech company \"ViaLactia\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vialactia.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.vialactia.com\/.<\/a>  If they succeed at breeding bulls that can pass on Marge's skim milk trait we are well on our way to yet another species with a narrow gene pool.  It's working well for the \"cheetah\":<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheetah#Genetics_and_classification.\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheetah#Genetics_and_classification.<\/a>\n\"Photo\":<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ramirezlook\/288814587\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ramirezlook\/288814587\/<\/a> taken from \"AnaC.Ramirez'\":<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ramirezlook\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ramirezlook\/<\/a> Flickr stream.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,126],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-agriculture","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}