Sunday 10 July 2011

The World's Most Expensive Milk

You milk them know what is most expensive? cow's milk? goat's milk? clay flower milk? or milk ... ..? Rat milk is the answer hehe.

Why is this expensive? It was not easy to obtain "mouse milk". Process for 30 minutes only produce 0.25 thousandths of a cubic centimeter liter alias. It takes four thousand mice to obtain 1 liter of milk. A value of 1 liter of milk of these mice for 23 thousand euros.

Rat milk is used as a means of research. Genetic modified mice such that in the milk to form a substance that can eradicate malaria bacteria. If so why do scientists use mice and milk instead of cow's milk, which is much cheaper?

Rats are a favorite animal genetic researchers, because the DNA of mice has been so little known, far exceeding any other animal DNA. So it becomes easy to analyze the results of the experiment. Thousands of animals needed for all experiments. Because it's much more practical to maintain thousands of mice rather than thousands of cows.

So, about the price, the rat is the most expensive milk. If the terms of the volume of milk produced, who is producing the most milk?

A cow can produce about 10 thousand liters of milk within a year. This is equivalent to 7 times the weight. Goat milk can produce 12 times their weight per year.

Record ever held by a blue whale. Within a day he was able to produce 600 liters of milk. So full of fat, so that the baby whale can gain weight up to 100 kg per day.

It turns out that rat milk has been carried out genetic engineering to cure diseases as malaria and research materials scientists, so expensive.

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