JOHN YDSTIE, host: Marge the cow is worried about your fat intake and she's doing something about it. A biotech company in New Zealand has announced that they've discovered that some cows have a gene giving them the ability to produce skimmed milk. Marge, who is originally identified in 2001, naturally produces milk that is low in saturated fats. A low-fat gene was then found in some of her calves. When we found her daughters had the gene, that was the eureka moment.</s>JOHN YDSTIE, host: Researcher Russell Snell told the New Zealand Dominion Post newspaper that the true Holy Grail, he said, will be to produce a sire with the gene. Now, if they can just find a chocolate gene, they'll really be on to something.
NPR's John Ydstie takes a moment to note that in New Zealand they are now breeding cows that produce skimmed milk.