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Cloning Cows for Cuba

Posted by timothy on from the free-market-would-be-easier dept.

AVIDLY INTERESTED writes: "You've got to hand it to the Cubans. They have been surviving by hook or by crook since the collapse of Communism without the subsidies the USSR used to afford them. Now, according to this article at The Age they are using the ingenuity of their scientists to clone White Udder, the cow of all cows, that will cover an entire nation in healthy milk moustaches."

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  1. maybe they can modify the cows dna... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...so it can't be tipped.

  2. Are you eating Cloned Cuban Cow(tm)? by Vuarnet · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're tasty! They're good for you! they will help you defend your socialisty people from being conquered by the evil capitalist governments who want to destroy the last bastion of freedom and crush the socialist dream which will live on forever and ever and ever and... (snipped 4 hours of speech)

    Plus, each Cloned Cuban Cow(tm) comes with it's own Fidel-like beard! Get them while they're new!

    (Gloria Estefan and Celia Cruz do not speak for The Cloned Cuban Cow Company)

    --
    Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
    Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.