While deniers insist climate change isn’t a black and white issue, ranchers and scientists are addressing it exactly that starkly. They’re busy turning Black Angus white.
Not this Black Angus, mind you....
...but this kind of Black Angus. Ranchers want to turn their coats white so they can better withstand the intense heat climate change brings.
A startup called Climate Adaptive Genetics aims to help the ranchers out with a genetically coded fur dye job.
"When I started doing this, I was thinking too much like a scientist, and I decided I was going to make their coat white by using the dominant white out of leghorn chickens,” said Dr. James West, Vanderbilt University associate professor of medicine and chief science officer of Climate Adaptive Genetics, in an interview with redOrbit.
“And there's nothing wrong with that; it's that, after we spent time talking to producers, everyone was uncomfortable with the idea of moving in genes from other species.”
