Bill Gates donates $40m to make a ‘super’ cow

Bill Gates has donated a huge sum of money in order to create a ‘super’ cow that can bear extreme temperatures along with producing high quantities of milk, as compared to a normal cow.

An Edinburgh-based nonprofit organization Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) received $40 million donated by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, in order to carry out genetic research to produce a genetically engineered cow. Talking to The Times, Gates said, “You can have a cow that is four times as productive with the same survivability.”

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Geneticists aim to make this cow by combining traits from European and African cow breed and Gates desires to help in creating this perfect cow that can produce as much milk as a European cow but be able to withstand heat as well as an African cow. However, it is still not clear how will these cows be created yet, Gates formerly suggested to create them through artificial insemination.

As per Business Insider, climate scientists have previously warned that cows and dairy products can lead to further environmental degradation but Gates, on the contrary, believes that they can help lessen global poverty and starvation.