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South Korean Scientists Clone Dog
Ebon Praetor writes "According to the BBC and Reuters, South Korean scientists have created the world's first cloned dog, an Afghan hound. The research purpose of the research is ostensibly to produce research animals and not for commercial purposes. Dogs are especially difficult to clone, but the scientists were able to extract DNA from a skin cell, inject it into an egg, and implant the egg into a surrogate mother."
Dammit where is the half dog half alligator? This whole cloning regular animals thing is getting boring.
In Korea only old people clone dogs.
It's karma burn wednesdaty!
What, are they running out of their favorite food over there? *ba-dum-bump*
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...at least they picked the appropriate month to release this...
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dogs clone you!
...according to the article:
If I'm understanding TFA, breaking this "dog" barrier is an important step down the road to cloning you and I. Things keep getting more interesting.
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Very original
Why are cloning dogs "notoriously difficult"? Is it because of the wide range of variability within the species?
I wasn't worried until I saw that the press release was put out by the Umbrella Corporation from someplace called Raccoon City.
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"a frisky, healthy, normal, rambunctious puppy."
If you ignore the glowing red eyes, caustic drool, and an unearthly howl that makes babies cry and causes normal dogs who hear it to lose bowel control, chew through their leads, and leap in front of FedEx trucks.
N. Korea's Kim Jong-il will have an army of clone warriors.
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...a Wolf cluster of these!
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Now I'm just waiting what the genetically modified food opponents would do...
1) Get egg 2) Inject DNA 3) Implant 4) Incubate for awhile 5) Start morality debate... again and again.
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In related news: I'm not going to be impressed with this "cloning" technology until they invent a machine where, you put an animal inside, and 2 come out.
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I hold nothing but extreme vitriol towards people that breed dogs when there are so many cats and dogs that are out on the streets and in shelters needing good homes. Same goes towards any pet store that sells cats and dogs.
People, please spay or neuter your pets and don't allow your ego to perpetuate the suffering of homeless cats and dogs.
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We can bring them back to life!
We're going to have a canine overpopulation with zombie dogs and more being cloned...(hiding behind nearest available corner)
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From the NYTimes story:
* Can't stimulate estrus with hormones, as you can with other animals. (Doggy estrus is weird. I read about it while reading up on dogs prior to adopting one. Very complex process, and messy. Glad my pup is spayed.)
* Difficult to detect ovulation.
* Eggs are not ripe when they leave the ovary. They have to be nabbed as they travel through the fallopian tube, modified, and reinserted within a few hours.
The research purpose of the research is...
Wait, research has research purpose? When did this happen?
Won't they reproduce on their own, or are they an endangered species there on the Asian continent?
His stated goal was to create a new golf club to allow every blissful, well-fed citizen to achieve holes-in-one, even on tricky dog legs.
Up next: Kim writes The Iliad and Beowulf in one afternoon, after using his psyonic powers to defeat Canada (in preparation for a crippling attack of their southern neighbor).
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks" was easy to remember, and often true.
So, what is it now? You can now teach your new old dog new tricks? Or, you can only re-teach your new dog's tricks to the old dog? Do the old tricks come pre-installed, and how many new tricks can you stack on top?
Wait, you can't teach your old dog new tricks, but the new dog....
Forget it...
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Actually, the taste ain't too bad...
Then eat it
In Japan they have cloned a whale!
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God was independently invented by many cultures around the Mediteranean sea. Unfortunately business method patents were not allowed yet, so whoever thought of it first, quickly lost his monopoly on religion...
Oh well, what the hell...
"Lets be frank they eat Dogs there, and they LIKE them, we have a fellow here where I work that says the White or lighter ones tasted better than Darker ones, black being the least tasty, and you have to kill them right (cats also) otherwise the blood taints the meat."
/notice how I cleverly worded my post to avoid saying "In South Korea, only old people..." :)
From what I've read on the parallel thread on Fark, the eating of dogs is a dying tradition that young people are avoiding.
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I personally am against cloning. Aren't there enough dogs roaming around without owners that testing could be done on instead of using tons of money to make the same thing that can be done for free? When my mom had cancer you could hear the dogs that tests were being done on barking and running around upstairs in the Cancer Research Center, but I think cloning them is an unnecessary step.
What made Buster be Buster was not his DNA. They way he was raised and environment and what not affected his personality way more than DNA ever could. In a few hundred years you might be able to put him in a copy machine and spit out an identical one, but until then he'll be alike in DNA only. Even spots aren't hereditary.
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I'm not going to be impressed until they invent a machine where you put an animal inside and Rebecca Romijn comes out.
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Quoth the article: "Canine cloning runs contrary to the Kennel Club's objective 'To promote in every way the general improvement of dogs'," Phil Buckley, spokesman for the Kennel Club told the BBC News website.
But the KC does things like register particular breeds of dogs which, due to their popularity, have been improperly bred so that they develop a wide variety of health problems. Some breeds are even prone to genetic disorders even if they aren't inbred. So doesn't promoting the breeding of these susceptible dog breeds detract from the lives of those dogs?
And besides that, there are so many dogs out there that are euthanized because nobody can find homes for them. Doesn't intentionally breeding more dogs in such an environment make life worse (as in, dead) for the dogs that get euthanized?
Yes, I think that cloning animals to be pets is a bad idea, but aside from the multitude of failed clones, I don't get how that's any worse than breeding them. And at least the cloning scientists have a goal of improving the state of medicine for humans.
It looks pretty cute'n normal imo. :D
Everyone at the lab: "Ooooh Snuppy is soooo cuute!"
Random Scientist 1: "Anybody else notice NT-2 is coughing a lot?"
Everyone else: "What did you sa- Ooooh look at Snuppy play with his ball."
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So it would be probably more akin to cloning deer or somesuch in the US.
I don't know about Korea, but I can tell you that in the parts of China I have visited, the black dog's meat is the most highly regarded.
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After all, we all know that all Americans eat Bull testicles whenever they get a chance.
Assuming there is a God, and assuming it is possible to clone humans, will the cloned human have a soul or just the original?
Will the original and clone have to share 1 sould or will there be separate souls? If the original does bad will the have to go to hell?
As a christian, I have no problems with cloning, as long as the clone will live.(and not be used as spare parts)
Read Charlotte's Web, watch Babe, and keep a pig as a pet for a while. See if you don't feel like eating pork any more. I'd bet you would feel a slight bit edgy, but that's only because our culture doesn't make eating pork shameful or socially discourage the practice. If we had the same snide jokes about people eating pigs as we did about people eating dogs, you'd certainly find less people having bacon with their eggs.
If you're not squimish about eating beef, pork, chicken, or any other kind of meat, dog really shouldn't bother you. Yet because our culture identifies dogs and cats as pets and friendly, domesticated creatures we're prone to frown on eating them. To me, it seems as though it's almost viewed in the same light as canabalism.
To be blatantly honest, we Westerns are the ones being hypocritical and irrational for the most part. I don't know whether or not dog tastes good, and I might be willing to try it just for the sake of trying it, but I've been culturally conditioned to not want to eat dog.
Great, backup copies. I've always wanted a redundant array of independent dogs.
Like Horse meat for me, I dont mind it at all and kinda like it from time to time, I cant get my kids to eat it at all, deer, squirrel or rabbit neither. Oh well.....at least the Frogs still eat Horses, Dont they ?
Dog schmog, I want my monkey-man!
He means hookers. There's nothing in Itaewon at 2am other than hookers.
Maybe some pimps.
Mostly hookers.
It's been a while since I've been there, but with the number of lonely GIs, I'm guessing the hooker demand hasn't subsided..
cloned news story. In about two weeks.
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becasue it also conviently promote inbreeding, and removes animals that have qualities people want to adopt.
Also, it is better to not have existed then to be an eye sore to humans.
Why do you think homeless cats 'suffer'? is it becasue they aren't all neat and bathed so they can fit into your little mental box of how they should live?
Homeless cats control homeless rats.
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Wish I had mod points right now. Great post.
Imagine what he could do with the first Stealth bomber (that he invented) that he ever flew!
More seriously though, this was done in South Korea, not North Korea which is the country KJI is driving into the ground.
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Have your kids spayed or neutered..
Right, well, I live with a family of Koreans and they say that the practice of eating dogs is all but gone in most of Korea, except for the most remote and rural areas. They lament this, as well, as they view it as a form of cultural homogenization with the West as Koreans adopt European and American taboos. And yes, they've been there recently, have family there that they keep in touch with.
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Henny Youngman, ladies and gentlemen. He'll be here all week... mopping.
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"pain is weakness leaving the body."I doubt that this process is significantly increasing the number of dogs out there. It's too hard, and too complex. If you want to worry about this you'd be much better off giving money to the local "neuter and spay" foundation rather than campaigning against cloning.
This exists primarily to preserve lines you particularly care about, either as a breed or of a beloved pet. But 99.9999% of people will stick to the "going to the pound" theory of buying a dog (or buying one, or getting a puppy from a friend.)
According to this page, afghan hounds are literally THE stupidest dog there is. They need absolute constant care and supervision, to prevent their idiotic behavior. According to one site:
"Afghans can be very destructive when bored. The Afghan Hound has an independent disposition and may not understand your displeasure with his destructive behaviors."
So, we have a dog that destroys your house if you leave him alone, and cannot learn otherwise, because they cannot be trained.
Why not clone a perfectly-bred German Shepherd, or Retriever? The first thing the cloned Afghan did was probably destroy the lab he was created in.
Somehow, the editors removed the Reuters link from the original story.
Also, for those who already have an account (so don't have to fork over their first-borne), from the New York Times.
"I cant get my kids to eat it at all, deer, squirrel or rabbit neither."
Mmmmm...venison (deer meat) is freaking delicious no matter how it's prepared! I get a little queezy about rodents, though.
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But was it a Capitalist Running Dog so as to be expoertable to China? :-)
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Oh goody! More dogs for Bob Barker to spay and neuter! ;-)
So what if Koreans (and Chinese) eat dogs. Why is this worth talking about?
We think of them as pets, and others seem them was work-animals or food -- but so what?
There are euros who eat horses. There's others who eat pig (a really nice and smart animal). Chinese eat rats. Blacks in Africa eat insects and other grubs.
My hat's off to the Koreans for the science involved. While you are making dog-jokes, they are achieving great progress in the life sciences.
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There are millions of human clones already, walking around among us. You've almost certainly met several during your lifetime.
As in, identical twins. They share the same DNA. Oooh scary!
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They want to secretly maintain food quality IMHO (:
In most of south-eastern Asia, milk and milk products are considered disgusting. Then, there are "holy" (cow in india) or "dirty" (pig for muslims/jews) animals, who aren't considered as food.
And while anthropologists don't know the reason for this, it is an universal reality. Only what foods are rejected vary (and vary largely) between different cultures.
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So the scientist went home, told his wife what he'd done, and she said "So what? I knitted an afghan today too..."
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
Maybe you can wrap it around yourself to keep warm - and fuzzy.
Why they chose to clone it with an Afgan is anyone's guess.
This reminds me of a weekend trip I took with the cub scouts a while back...
I mean, they were all cute little kids and they loved hiking and they'd get firewood all night long if you asked them to, it was just like having a team of little puppies with you that could actually DO things.
When that blizzard hit, though, we didn't have any problem at all with eating Fatty Joe. As a bonus, with his "diet" of non-stop candy bars and high blood sugar, the kid self-caramelized on the fire, and nobody really liked him anyway.
[ I mean, he was probably going to electrocute himself or get hit by lightening at the next jamboree, because God is pissed at the Scouts for kicking out the gays. ]
who needs to stay ontopic, really, when there's an awful joke to be made?
s'wut i sed.
Interesting, I thought the black ones were the best dogs. Lets be frank, when I head into the restaurant and walk out a huge pile of marinated "chicken" for about $0.30/lb, I understand it's almost certainly not chicken. It's the alley catch of the day, rats,cats,maybe dog. I don't care, it tastes fine.
"Sadly however, the media interest is likely to attract pet owners keen to re-create their much loved pets.
This one particular team is doing cloning simply for medical disease research. What makes this kind of news most disturbing though is that with such wide publicity, you will have lots of people saying to themselves that they would absolutely love to have fido back from the dead. The demands from these owners, no matter how much the debate may say that it is unethical, will drive pop-up commercial biotechs looking for a quick cloning buck. Even though only a few of these dog owners could pay the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars that a cloning company would charge for such a service, just that is enough to bring such an industry alive. It has already happened with CC the cat (mentioned in the article), and I have no doubt will happen in the near future with a dog (even though the risks are so high). Some rich dog owner out there will probably be willing to pay through the nose to have his fido back, and his money will grease the commercial biotechs to find a way.
But seriously, I think using this technology to clone our beloved kids would be a great idea. Now granted a cloned kid is not going to be exactly the same, but it will have the same genetics, and given the same environment to mature in, the end result should be a very similar kid. .... I know I will never have another kid like , and given the oppurtunity I'd clone him/her in a second. You see the problem? Once you step over the line in cloning, u open the floodgates for very scary consequences.
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Seriously,
Whoever runs the top-3 poultry company in the U.S. will likely pay top-dollar to have their most profitable birds cloned.
That is if they haven't done so already.
So, when do I get my finders fee?
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I always wondered about the religious issues concerning cloning. I cound never understand a couple of things.
One -- if only god can give you a soul, does an animal you clone have a soul? If it does, did he put it in there even though you (supposedly) did something immoral?
What's so terrible about playing god? all his creatures are wonderful, why not make more?
i had more... but i just blanked. it's too late at night for this...
(but if anyone else thinks the this-is-evil claim doesn't make sense, chip in.)
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
You could rake in money hand over fist if you started a company based on this ("DogDuplicator, Inc"). Wealthy family's beloved pet passes away? No problem...Fido, Mark II!
There's a reason why most Asians don't like milk (and derived products). They don't have the enzyme to digest it, and it gives them horrible cramps.
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Man, I wish I had modpoints. This is the funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in ages.
Do not attempt to put guilt upon the good breeders out there. It is not their fault for the huge numbers of homeless animals and they should not have their legitimate activities curtailed.
The good breeders promote their breeds by ensuring only the good representatives of the breed are bred. They usually sell their dogs in two classes, show and pet. Show class dogs are show no signs of defect, injury, or disease. They are splendid examples of their breed and will help to keep the breed useful and defect free. Pet quality dogs are usually those whom the breeder to be healthy animals yet not posses the best qualities representative of the breed. They are sold on the condition that they are to be spayed or neutured. Their registration actually prevents unscrupulous buyers from registering litters produced by them.
The good effect of cloning is that by advancements in the procedures it may be possible to eliminate some defects that show up in various types of animals thereby improving the breeds.
I am all for control of the pet population but it is just as selfish to condemn all breeders and sellers as it is to ignore the problem out there. Quite a few states PERMIT puppy-mills (Misourri is one). I am all for shutting down those places and the businesses that use them.
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We generally don't eat predators of any kind. They're generally just not very tasty, whether, cat, dog, ferret, cassowary or whatever.
The only predators we eat on a regular basis are fish.
It's not a cultural issue so much as it is that most predatory species have too little marbling and too much stringy muscle.
Dogs, snakes, and other predators are eaten in the Far East more for the association of the animals' living characteristics than for their flavor.
All this and not a single 4 assed dog joke? I guess there's a shortage of Southpark fans out here...
Breeders are contributing to the supply of dogs when there is already an egregious surplus out in the streets. They are part of the problem. Aside from legitimate work dogs (ie bomb sniffers & seeing-eye), *very few* selections of purebreds are not driven by the buyer's ego, IMO.
"The good effect of cloning is that by advancements in the procedures it may be possible to eliminate some defects that show up in various types of animals thereby improving the breeds."
The only way to get rid of problems like hip dysplacia (sp?) in hounds and respiratory problems found in some bulldog varieties is to eliminate the breed by interbreeding to introduce more genetic variety.
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I took care of a pet pig for awhile. I even fed him bacon, which he eagerly gobbled up.
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The scientists were reverse engineering the work of God. So as a lab joke they used a doG.
Your dogs wants itself.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Dumb animals taste better.
There again, we eat the ugly fish and keep the cute ones in a fish tank as pets. It all comes down to a popularity contest.
I've cut down my meat intake but if I go a couple days without meat i sure do feel like killing something. (ok, buying something thats been kill by someone else.)
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
Beef exports to South Korea suddenly dwindle due to recently economically viable alternative beef sources. However, the sudden increase of alternative beef source had quadrupled the US rice exports to that region.
I had some pet chickens during grade school. And no, I didn't live on a farm. I lived in the suburbs. They were very dear to me, and I almost cried when the last one died. But yeah, chicken is like the most delicious meat out there.
Koreans will never go hungry again.
I, for one, welcome our new dog-clone overlords!
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Rabbit's tasty. And I know a restaraunt I can get it at in SoCal. Squirrels and guinea pigs are too small to bother with. The spines on a porcupine aren't somthing I care to deal with.
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a) it's also eaten by older generations because it is a very tender meat and a good source of protein that tastes good. only one kind of dog is consumed (dunggae - shit dog) and it is not a domestic breed. pet ownership is very prevalent in korea. b) if Americans were to clone pigs, no one would mention chitterlings. c) eating dogs isn't unethical, beating them to get adrenaline pumping is. reading is fundamental.
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"pain is weakness leaving the body."Tastes like chicken!
Scientists hope dog clones will help them understand and treat a range of serious human diseases.
These scientists speak dog?
I'm going to become a theologist and a scientist so I can spend long hours into the night arguing with myself.
And so are identical twins.
(Yes, I'm joking)
The clone is just another animal with the same DNA. Nobody gets freaked out about identical twins, but there are always some people who make this complaint about clones.
As best as I can tell, all the "playing God" complaints are from religious luddites.
There may be some socio-economic consequences of cloning that are worth considering though. If we get to some more advanced genetic engineering, there certainly will be. Designer genes, anyone?
and then promptly ate him.
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Definitely culture. When I first got the chance to taste sashimi (raw fish), I had to fight 28 years of American culture in my mind telling me that I wanted to vomit. The fish did not taste bad and did not feel bad at all. After almost losing it several times, though, I decided to call it a success for a first try, rather than create an embarrassing situation. I have eaten sashimi on different occassions since then, though I still have to fight my culture sometimes.
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I also remember eating rabbit as a child (my father raised them). I remember it being saltier and more greasy than chicken. I remember liking it. I also remember the time we took a bunny in as a pet. I remember not being comfortable eating rabbit after that.
Here is an interesting twist on this 'mind over matter' issue. People can be convinced that they do not like a certain food.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/03/cont
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In most of south-eastern Asia, milk and milk products are considered disgusting.
I drank a carton of milk in Taiwan purchased from a convenience store and it tasted very different (worse, IMO) from milk in the US. Maybe they feed their dairy cows something different. In Taiwan, at least, it's not hard to find dairy products.
... ended up with this thing
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They way he was raised and environment and what not affected his personality way more than DNA ever could.
Parent: "given the same environment to mature in"
Everything will be taken away from you.
If you keep kosher, it helps cut down on a lot of this "eating animal" business for you. Hard to keep a cow as a pet, you see.
Oh please!! Fact is, nature is nature. As such, they will continue to breed and roam the wild which includes our cities. We might as well shelter "stray" birds and rodents while were at it.
By default, all animals are unwanted when it comes to domestication. Breeding is nothing more then controlled domestication as seen fit by society. Regardless whether we breed animals or not, there will ALWAYS be a population of them in the wild.
Life is not for the lazy.
Actually there are a number of clubs and bars there. Sure there are juicy bars and I would guess hookers but any sane GI would stay away from those places.
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in korea only old dogs get clonned
I hate to be an ass hole, but who cares? All sorts of animals are dying all the time. Countless cows are being slaughtered. Rats and mice are being exterminated. Cats are killing birds. I crushed a cockroach yesterday. Eh, if you have too many animals, especially of the domestic type, just put a few of them to sleep.
Am I cruel and heartless? Eh, I would call it realistic. Animals are dying all the time, just because some animals are cute and furry doesn't mean that suddenly we need a moral crusade to save them. Honestly, the best evolutionary trait an animal can have these days is either being cute or tasty. Cats and cows will never go extinct.
"The research purpose of the research is ostensibly to produce research animals and not for commercial purposes". Really the research purpose of the research was to produce research. I'll need to research this more but it sounds like good research.
Sit Fido, sit... Wait a sec. Fido, I didn't know you had a identical twin! Wait a second, there's three of you! AHHH! TWO MANY FIDOES!
Perhaps my old man wasn't too far off his nut when he said, "Leave it up to the Asians to make a drawn out and overly complicated renewable food source." ...or perhaps they found a particularly tasty canine and wished to mass produce it? I don't think McDonalds will like the hit to thier market share. Would anyone like a McLassie Value Meal?
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For chrissakes, how do you pronounce that name, and does he get beat up a lot for it?
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Why don't we just reeducate Americans to enjoy the taste of dog and cat? Lots of good protein going to waste there. We could just eat the unwanted animals. This would save the US from the horrors of wild dogs and cats and increase our food supply thus staving off starvation of the poor. Everybody wins. Well, except the dogs and cats, but the goverment puts them to sleep anyway.
We all know how much difficulty they have reproducing, this will help keep the cost of software development down.
In Korea only old dogs learn new tricks.
...that in South Korea, dog is a delicacy.
2. Kill the pooch.
3. Bring it back to life.
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!!
Zombie cloned dogs anyone? :-)
Wonder what the original dog will think when he sniffs the clone's ass. ;)
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After being in Korea I found several other reasons to stop eating dog.
#1 Koreans used to treat dogs terribly, since they are increadibly loyal beating them is rather unseemly.
#2 People's pets were often stolen for the cooking pot... not pleasant.
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Oh come on, people! Are you telling me the idea of genetically modified food is that new to you?!
The research purpose of the research is ostensibly to produce research...
Wow!
Com'on guys -- I know the web/email is the place for horrid writing, but 2 seconds from one of the
Well here's another one then.
...that they still haven't solved the telemere/age problem; i.e., that if the original animal is an adult, the clone will be born with the same amount of time left to live as the adult original. I hope they solve that problem before they start seriously trying to clone humans...the result could be exactly the same problem that Rutger Hauer's character in Blade Runner had if they don't.
In most of south-eastern Asia, milk and milk products are considered disgusting.
WTF? I am from hong kong and in my entire life haven't heard anything like this. So you're saying feeding one's own child with mother's milk is disgusting??
The reason (I think) that we started eating pigs and cows in the first place was that they could be fed with the surplus agricultural products. Try to raise dogs for eating by feeding them grains!
2 for 1 dogs? im sure the local food economy is literally licking its lips.
2 for 1 dogs? im sure the local food industry is literally licking its lips.
Try it, you may find it fulfilling.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Actually in some South American countries, guinea pigs are a dietary staple.
You're right about squirrels and porcupines.
We don't eat porcupines for the same reason we don't eat skunks - their defense mechanisms make them unappetizing.
I suspect that a breed which is normally considered people-attentive would have been more controversial than one which consistently gives you the 1000-yard stare when you talk to it, in case things didn't go quite right.
Just want you all to keep this thing in perspective.
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Last time I ate a dog, there was this little voice in my head..
"You feel that eating the dog was a bad idea."
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So, in Korea, only old people eat dogs?
>In most of south-eastern Asia, milk and milk
>products are considered disgusting.
Not really. It's just that Cow's milk was a rare commodity in SE Asia for a very long time. Goat's milk was much more common, but it was generally rare to find a village rich enough to afford large livestock (which are pretty much the only animals that anyone would bother to milk). Add to that a fair percentage of the population is lactose intolerant, and you can see why milkshakes aren't popular over there.
For those that don't know, Lactose intolerance means eating anything with lactose in it results in nasty cramps, diarrhea, and a whole lot of gas. That's all sorts of 'eww' all around.
As for cheese, the common pronounciation among Cantonese speakers is "Chee-see" which sounds very much like you're telling your guests that you're serving them scat out of some unidentified animal that they've never heard of. Yummy...
That aside, just try and describe what cheese is, without it sounding gross.
Why would they clone a dog. They are just going to eat it.