Re-Pet a Reality

tigerdarklord writes "The Sci-Fi concept of pet cloning has become a commercial venture. Genetic Savings & Clone now not only offers genebanking for your pet (alive or recently dead), but a full service cloning shop. Although they started by producing two clones of the CEO's cat, they have now produced their first commercial clone for a woman from Texas. GSC has modified their cloning procedure to overcome the resemblance issues demonstrated when the College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M, created CopyCat. The technology looks promising but the $50,000 price tag will prove to place the service out of the reach of most pet owners."

Comments

Bring out the Christians!

[ylikone]

and their superior sense of "morality".
Grow up.

Re:yeah, you're right

[CrimsonAvenger]

So yeah, you're right. Maybe we should voluntarily control our population growth [populationconnection.org] for a better future instead of birthing 3 or 4 kids per family to then cart around in our Chevy Suburbans.

You seem to be a bit out of touch with the present.

It might interest you to know that, with the exception of immigration, both the USA and Europe have populations in decline. The population growth isn't happening in wealthy societies, it's happening in dirt-poor ones.

And if WE decide to control THEIR populations, then "voluntary" isn't quite the correct word...

This is a moral outrage

[Wonderkid]

Why? a) The woman (had to be from LA didn't she?) is too thick (British word for stupid) to realize that you cannot clone the soul. b) As other have pointed out, the flaws in genetic clones reduce the life expectancy of the cloned 'victim'. c) This is just not necessary. Why is it that Americans are so goddam stupid? Their movies tend to focus on a moral completion to a plot, while in reality, they just allow outragious goings on that eventually corrupt and offend the rest of the world to seep into society across the globe? It just will not surprise me if within the next few years, there is a global armed uprising against some of the moral crap going on, from cloning animals (and eventually people), getting consumers addicted to unrequired prescription drugs to advertising junk products to children. If you find something revolting, revolt! Before it is too late!