Israel doesn’t think India's cows are good enough.

Surprisingly, India agrees.

According to The Economic Times, the Israeli agricultural minister offered India technological assistance in improving dairy production. This apparently includes applying "the genetic properties of Israeli cows" to the local livestock, according to the article.

The lack of protest is unexpected given that India is arguably the only other place on earth [ed.: other than California?] that happy cows could call home.

No feelings of insecurity here

This is, after all, a nation that considers the cow holy, revering the god Krishna both as cow herder and cow protector. And in India, a burger from the restaurant with the Golden Arches does not include their famous all-beef patties.

All this begs the question, what's so good about Israeli cattle anyway?

Answer: they appear to be the end result of a quest to breed a cow with high milk production in the Middle Eastern climate. Over decades of research, genetic material from cattle in the Netherlands, Germany and Canada, and quite a bit of crossbreeding went into producing what is now known as the Israeli Holstein breed.

Then again, maybe there's no reason to complain. After all, Israel first exported their Holsteins to India in 1996. Several Indian dairy farms had expressed interest in buying cows from Israel prior to the minister’s visit.

At the end of 2007, the government of Kerala announced plans to increase milk production by 20 percent in the next three years by buying Israeli bulls and cattle embryos. The region has been suffering a milk shortage in recent years. The order is expected to be filled shortly.