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rBGH (rBST ) RECOMBINANT BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN or BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE was forced out of the dairy industry practices by unhappy consumers, and this could happen in the future with current hormonal manipulation of dairy herds. Clearly, the experience of rBGH has set a tone in consumer trust for decades to come. View in LinkedIn

THIRD PARTY REPRODUCTION "refers to the use of eggs, sperm, or embryos that have been donated by a third person (donor) to enable an infertile individual or couple (intended recipient) to become parents." http://lnkd.in/bp3BDMr View in LinkedIn

THE DAIRY INDUSTRY may be a good starting point to predict the future of human reproduction at least from a technical reproductive perspective, because changes in the last 100 years have been very dramatic, including artificial insemination, hormone manipulation, embryo transfers and cloning. View in LinkedIn

HUMAN SPERM BANKS. "Some sperm banks enable recipients to choose the sex of their child ... the chances of being able to select the gender of a child are held to be considerably increased. Sex selection is not permitted in a number of countries, including the UK. However, in many parts of the world sperm banks are not allowed to be established or to operate." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_bank View in LinkedIn

ALMOST ALL MEAT IS ARTIFICIALLY INSEMINATED. "100 percent of commercially raised turkeys in the U.S. (save for heritage turkeys) are born from artificial insemination. for the past 150 years, fish farming has been harvesting eggs from the female, and mixing them with milk (sperm) from the males." Zero percent of chickens are AI due to sheer numbers. http://lnkd.in/bWVC4Uk View in LinkedIn

HUMAN OVA BANKS. "There are currently very few ova banks in existence. It can be expected however that ova collection will become more important in the future, i.e. for third party reproduction, and/or for producing stem cells, i.e. from unfertilized eggs (oocytes)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ova_bank View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION IN CATTLE. "More than 88 million cattle had been subjected to A.I. in 1970. Of these, Europe ... the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Japan accounted for 73 million and the rest of the world for about 15 million ... the total number of artificially inseminated cattle and buffaloes in the world ...120 million a year." http://lnkd.in/bKuSqwS View in LinkedIn

HUMAN SPERM AND OVA BANKS. There are two main reasons for these banks: infertile couples wanting help with pregnancy, and generation of stem cells. They are controversial, and bear past stigmas of eugenics. Societies are very much more sensitive about interfering with human reproduction than animal or plant reproduction. View in LinkedIn

MOST FARM ANIMALS ARE ARTIFICIALLY INSEMINATED: "the most commonly used method of breeding food production animals in developed countries, with more than 90% pigs and almost the same proportion of dairy cattle bred by this method in the European Union and North America." http://www.intechopen.com/books/artificial-insemination-in-farm-animals/artificial-insemination-current-and-future-trends View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION "is used in many non-human animals, including sheep, horses, cattle, pigs, dogs, pedigree animals generally, zoo animals, turkeys and even honeybees." Turkeys are reportedly now so inbred they cannot breed unaided. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_insemination View in LinkedIn