Post by xtra on Jan 28, 2009 19:31:06 GMT -6
I love FREEDOM, pets and don't care how people spend their money as long as it doesn't hurt someone else.
Maybe I'm missing something here but I don't like people playing GOD and think this is creepy and disgusting at best, and at worse is inhumane, unethical, and immoral.
Look what 150 k could do for abandoned animals, vet clinics, farms etc. And in some towns like Boulder Colorado its against the law to even dye your dogs hair let alone play God with their DNA. see story here www.denverpost.com/portal/breakingnews/ci_8533053?_loopback=1 which I disagree with.
This is just disturbing and pisses me off.............
But Id love to hear what the good Dr. thinks about not only this story, but the slippery slope of cloning, for pets, food, and medical needs.
Fla. couple pick up their cloned yellow lab puppy
The Associated Press
Posted: 01/28/2009 02:46:58 PM MST
Updated: 01/28/2009 02:46:58 PM MST
MIAMI—A Boca Raton couple got a new dog, and it's just like their old dog. Not just the same breed and gender, but the same DNA. Nina and Edgar Otto picked up their cloned yellow lab puppy at the Miami International Airport Monday night. Lancelot Encore was cloned from the DNA of the Ottos' late dog Lancelot, which died of cancer in January 2008.
Guessing that pet cloning would one day be possible, the Ottos had DNA samples of their dog frozen five years ago.
The Ottos paid $155,000 in a San Francisco biotech firm's dog-cloning auction last July.
BioArts International created Lancelot Encore in South Korea, where he was born 10 weeks ago. The Ottos say he's the first single-birth, commercially cloned puppy in the United States.
Maybe I'm missing something here but I don't like people playing GOD and think this is creepy and disgusting at best, and at worse is inhumane, unethical, and immoral.
Look what 150 k could do for abandoned animals, vet clinics, farms etc. And in some towns like Boulder Colorado its against the law to even dye your dogs hair let alone play God with their DNA. see story here www.denverpost.com/portal/breakingnews/ci_8533053?_loopback=1 which I disagree with.
This is just disturbing and pisses me off.............
But Id love to hear what the good Dr. thinks about not only this story, but the slippery slope of cloning, for pets, food, and medical needs.
Fla. couple pick up their cloned yellow lab puppy
The Associated Press
Posted: 01/28/2009 02:46:58 PM MST
Updated: 01/28/2009 02:46:58 PM MST
MIAMI—A Boca Raton couple got a new dog, and it's just like their old dog. Not just the same breed and gender, but the same DNA. Nina and Edgar Otto picked up their cloned yellow lab puppy at the Miami International Airport Monday night. Lancelot Encore was cloned from the DNA of the Ottos' late dog Lancelot, which died of cancer in January 2008.
Guessing that pet cloning would one day be possible, the Ottos had DNA samples of their dog frozen five years ago.
The Ottos paid $155,000 in a San Francisco biotech firm's dog-cloning auction last July.
BioArts International created Lancelot Encore in South Korea, where he was born 10 weeks ago. The Ottos say he's the first single-birth, commercially cloned puppy in the United States.