Zebus and Its Clones: Value and Pedigree in an Elite Cattle Market
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Agribusiness, Cloning, Elite, Livestock, PedigreeAbstract
Brazil sells the most expensive zebu “elite” cattle – racial, aesthetic and reproductive models – of the planet. Through “partnerships” between farmers and laboratories, is ahead in the use and research of biotechnologies (artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, cloning) to produce these animals. In 2002, Embrapa conducted a successful nuclear transfer procedure. Since then, farmers that invested in experimental research on nuclear transfer, started to produce and market important breeding clones. In 2007, a clone of Bilara vii, Opera, was sold for one million at an auction. Despite the high price paid by the animal, it cannot receive pedigree; at the time, nor the Brazilian Association of Zebu Breeders (institution that controls the racial standards and providing genealogical records of zebu specimens in Brazil), nor the Ministry of Agriculture were able to deal with the controversies that Opera mobilized: undoubtedly she was an “elite” cow, but who were, in fact, their parents? This article, from an anthropological perspective, by describing the controversies surrounding the first nuclear transfer procedures and cloned cattle trade – by laboratories and auctions – aims to light up the production and realization of the Brazilian elite cattle market. Wants to think about the centrality of pedigree idea in zebu livestock, the effects of the use of reproductive technologies, the coalition of interests between rural entrepreneurs and state in Brazil and reflect on the status and value of elite cattle and farmersDownloads
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