A young man in a white lab coat burst into the room without knocking.
“Dr. Holstein.”
Looking into his sparkling eyes, the gray-haired man in the suit, who was reading a thick academic journal in his study, immediately realized what the young man was about to say.
“You’ve finally done it, haven’t you, Jersey?”
“Yes, Doctor. Look at this.”
Jersey was holding a beaker filled with white liquid in both hands. The doctor transferred a small amount of the liquid into a petri dish and compared the tastes by drinking them alternately.
“What do you think of these two milks? One tastes like goat’s milk, and the other like sheep’s milk. The new breed of cow we created through genetic engineering will produce cow’s milk when it grows up if we feed cow’s milk to a female calf. However, if we feed it goat’s milk, it will produce goat’s milk when it grows up, and if we feed it sheep’s milk, it will produce sheep’s milk.”
“It’s a wonderful invention. It’s thanks to you that we’ve been experimenting non-stop every day.” Praised by Holstein, his assistant Jersey blushed with joy.
“No. It’s the result of your theoretical research, Doctor.”
Holstein and Jersey transferred the cow’s milk fed on goat’s milk and the cow’s milk fed on sheep’s milk into test tubes and confirmed that not only their appearance and taste but also their components were completely equivalent to goat’s and sheep’s milk.
They submitted a paper to National Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, and it was accepted. As soon as it was published, they were praised by scholars around the world and rumored to be candidates for the next Nobel Prize.
Experiments were also successful with other animals of the same order, Artiodactyla, like camels, and also with horses from the order Perissodactyla.
“It’s wonderful. Maybe even with human milk…”
“Ah, humans and cows are both mammals. The dream universal dairy cow. It might be possible to get human milk from a cow. If that happens, it will be amazing.”
“Is it amazing?”
“Yeah, it’s not just a substitute for breast milk. All the dairy products that used to be made from cow’s milk can now be made from human milk. Butter, cheese. Soap can also be made from milk fat. The highest quality. If you raise that calf with milk from a cow that produces human milk, you should be able to keep reproducing human milk. It’s groundbreaking.”
“But wouldn’t experimenting on humans all of a sudden be inadmissible on humanitarian grounds?”
“Maybe so. Shall we use monkeys as test subjects then?”
“For now, let’s try it with mice.”
It took a lot of time and effort to collect enough mouse milk to feed a calf. But the diligent Jersey patiently collected about two liters of milk from hundreds of mice and fed it to the newborn universal dairy cow calf.
“Doctor!”
Again, Jersey burst into Dr. Holstein’s study without knocking.
“How was it?”
“Well, the calf drank the mouse’s milk properly, but, well, even after six weeks of birth, it won’t eat pasture grass.”
“Meaning.”
“Yes. If you feed it mouse’s milk, it will eat mouse food after weaning.”
“That means if we feed it cat’s milk, it will become a meat-eating cow, and if we feed it human milk, it will surely become a cow that eats rice and bread.”
“It seems so.”
“That’s gross.”