Where's Carl Icahn when you need him. Bill Gates? They could start milking one of the still living herd for drugs and money at the right price. The vaccine stuff could be hush-hush for a few reasons. I think the mammary gland lining would be a good place to assemble something like a vlp vaccine, but have the vaccine particles under gtc's standard milk promoter.
Is "back burner" TN's term for "hush-hush"? or some cultural lab-pharm-lingo in the organization? Are the goats alive? are they being milked? Maybe those goats are alive and just not being milked, but can be induced to lactate? Maybe those goats are already ashes and there still remains some frozen embryos? There are a lot of ways to cut costs if there were less hungry lactating, boob-dragging goats jumping around.
PS-edit: Anyone able to google up an image of swollen female goat breasts? I saw some at the bronx zoo last week. I may have the first example ever in google images, of a swollen lactating goat breast. Keep your eyes open.