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Cloning Cows for Cuba
AVIDLY INTERESTED writes: "You've got to hand it to the Cubans. They have been surviving by hook or by crook since the collapse of Communism without the subsidies the USSR used to afford them. Now, according to this article at The Age they are using the ingenuity of their scientists to clone White Udder, the cow of all cows, that will cover an entire nation in healthy milk moustaches."
My grandfather used to work on cross breeding plants to have weak genes.
If you cross bred a weak gene plant with a normal plant then the offspring will inherit nearly all genes from the second plant.
This way when he found a particular wheat plant with very high level of protein he would cross breed it with the weak gene plants in order to reproduce it nearly intact.
This research was quickly forgotten when cloning came along.
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They're tasty! They're good for you! they will help you defend your socialisty people from being conquered by the evil capitalist governments who want to destroy the last bastion of freedom and crush the socialist dream which will live on forever and ever and ever and... (snipped 4 hours of speech)
Plus, each Cloned Cuban Cow(tm) comes with it's own Fidel-like beard! Get them while they're new!
(Gloria Estefan and Celia Cruz do not speak for The Cloned Cuban Cow Company)
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Learning to fly, Pink Floyd.
When they outlaw in the US it will still be available abroad. Here we see an example of where the US has outlawed cloning, but they are doing it in Cuba. So you want to clone your child, I'm sure if you have the funds then you can go to cuba and have it done. (well maybe not now, but when it is possible and tested it will happen outside the US).
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