The meat industry has long been hailed as one of the most
significant factors driving global warming — and this is in
addition to being damaging to your health. However, Chinese
scientists are looking to change all that, and they have cloned
a genetically modified lamb that instead of producing the
unhealthy fat commonly found in lambs, creates a healthy fat
that contains high levels of the omega-3 fatty acids found in
fish and nuts. The lamb called Peng Peng was created in a
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) laboratory in Xinjiang, western
China. There scientists introduced a gene from a roundworm into
a donor cell taken from the ear of a small Chinese Merino sheep.
Once implanted into an unfertilized egg, it was fertilized and
the resultant embryo was implanted into the womb of a surrogate
sheep. The scientists, led by Dr Yutao Du, of the BGI in
Shenzhen, hope the breakthrough will reduce the emissions caused
by livestock as well as producing a healthier alternative to
organic lamb. “The gene was originally