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...cattle breeding, the name of the game is to improve the strain. Thus ranchers think nothing of importing desirable cattle from halfway round the world to crossbreed with their own herds. In New Zealand, however, cattlemen recently ran afoul of the country's strict animal quarantine laws in trying to obtain prized French breeding animals. Now, using sophisticated biological manipulation, they have overcome the problem...
...Zealand dairymen have long wanted to import Limousin and Simenthal cattle from France. But officials, fearing that hoof and mouth disease (which is indigenous to France) might be imported along with the beasts, have steadfastly refused to allow the entry of any French cattle. There are no such restrictions, however, on English cattle...
...experts of Genetics International Ltd., a New Zealand stock-breeding company, there was an obvious, if devious, solution. The breeders shipped French cows to Britain, where they were artificially inseminated. Their fertilized ova were removed and transplanted into the wombs of local Jersey and Friesian heifers. Then the surrogate British mothers were shipped to New Zealand, where officials passed them without the slightest beef...
...embryos should develop normally in the British heifers and be born with all the genetic qualities of their French antecedents. Those qualities can then be passed on to the New Zealand herds after the imported infants grow old enough to breed...
Wilson also criticized the Common Market for ignoring the interests of cheap food producers like New Zealand and placing more importance on "protectionism than on the security of sugar producers...