As a dairy farmer (cows) from 1975-1989 and goat-milk producer, 1989-present, I'm learning a lot here. Never heard that they were sexing semen for dairy animals (although technically it should be possible). We use frozen semen from Canada and get about 50 percent male calves.

Dairy breeds, far from being "inedible", produce good meat. I would imagine much of New Zealand's exported beef is culled dairy animals.

I was for some years Government Agricultural Officer in charge of Vegetable Research and have never been too keen on cereals and veggies after seeing how much poison has to be poured onto them to keep away the bugs and diseases.

It's like someone giving you a drink of water from a bottle that formerly contained poison. You'd hesitate to drink no matter how well it was washed. We often do not even wash off the poisons off veggies; we rely on a safe "harvest after" date.

By the way, we in Barbados are in the middle of an awful drought. As a farmer I couldn't grow anything. But my goats eat the leaves off deep-rooted trees in nearby gullies and are in the pink of condition.

Of course you might be able to grow fruit trees in those gullies... if you're prepared to kill off the monkeys who live there.

I like the monkeys and I like meat.