Emotions and Science Collide in Cloning

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BARRON, Wis. - Bob Schauf knows cows. He breeds them and shows them, washes, clips and primps them like models poised to strut down a Paris runway.

Yet in all his years, Schauf never saw a cow quite like Blackrose, a gentle giant, a prize-winning Holstein who was "tall, strong, upstanding and beautifully shaped."

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Emotions and Science Collide in Cloning

"She's one of those once-in-a-lifetime cows," Schauf says.

Make that twice in a lifetime.

Blackrose died in 2001, but her clones live on.

The tale of Blackrose and her clones provides a glimpse into the high-stakes, highly emotional collision of science, ethics, agriculture and food.

Four Black...

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