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Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market

Posted by michael on from the hypoallergenic-cats dept.

psoriac writes "According to this article the Taiwanese Taikong Corporation is starting to sell "Night Pearls" - zebrafish that glow in different red and green patterns thanks to genes from jellyfish and marine coral. US sales are expected to follow."

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  1. Re:Roll on the genetically engineered toys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    My only concern would be letting something like this loose in nature and therefore messing with ecology.


    People like you make me sick. If I own a GM animal, I can do whatever the hell I want with it, including releasing it into my backyard. Crazy environmentalists like you would rather see your precious "ecology" be preserved than allow a human being to live out his or her life in freedom. It just goes to show that environmentalists are just a step away from totalitarians.

  2. Re:Gene torture by nacturation · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Aren't humans part of nature? If we are, if we are a product of nature, how can we ever do anything that is outside of what is natural? Then us playing with genes is just anohter part of nature, albeit a new aspect of nature.

    Didn't Hitler say something similar?

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