THE HOUND questions whether the recent use of DNA sequence technology by farmer cooperative Livestock Improvement (LIC)
– it led to the discovery of a recessive small calf gene and now opens the door to managing ‘small calf syndrome’ out of the dairy industry – could be viewed as prejudicial. He notes that we’ve recently seen dwarf or ‘little people’ boxing on the undercard of a recent a major professional boxing match, so what will the PC police think of the dairy industry trying to deliberately to eliminate dwarf cows from the dairy herd?