Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets (abc.net.au)

An anonymous reader writes: Tyne McConnon from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that a research firm in China plans to"sell its 'micro pig' as a pet after it successfully edited the DNA of the animal to stunt its growth. Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) created the pig, which grows to weigh between 14 and 20 kilograms, by changing the DNA responsible for its growth. The company originally genetically modified the Bama pig breed for research but announced at a Bio Tech Leader summit in China recently their plans to sell it."

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Only dogs are friends. All others are only pets.

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Only dogs have co-evolved with humans for 25000 years, they are the only species that "understand" humans. They will look where you look. They will look at the object you point to, not at your pointing finger. They are the symbiotic species, friends for humans, set us towards the path of sedentism and later domestication of other plants and animals. Nomadic bands of pre-dog humans kept killing each other. Without dogs acting as early warning systems, humans could never have developed sedentism, even when the fertile lands where hunting and gathering was good.

All other animals are either domesticated or feral animals conditioned by food reward. They are merely pets.

Ogdan Nash put it perfectly. Outside of dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of dog, it is too dark to read.