From: Sayke@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 14 1999 - 14:05:11 MST
In a message dated 3/14/99 0:40:28 AM PST, havard@earthlink.net writes:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_295000/295277.stm
> US scientists have genetically-engineered chickens to grow basic "legs"
> instead of wings.
> Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, took a gene
> normally found only in chicken legs and transferred it to the forming wings
> of chick embryos.
for one thing, im fairly sure that this isnt particularly comfy, from the
chickens POV. is that relevent? do chickens have rights, from an extropian
POV? if they dont, and our desire for chicken legs causes us to grow chickens
that are really just masses of legs, where do we stop? should we? cows that
are really just massive mammeries would be... interisting. what about pigs
that have asses the size of a buick? wouldnt run outa ham for a while...
basicly, im just wondering about the lists opinion on the ethics of this, and
indeed, if theres even grounds for a problem.
"suspicion breeds confidence. paranoia is the path to enlightenment. fnord!"
sayke (who is waiting for the discovery of the gene sequence responsible for
the growth of infrared sensors in pit vipers. wheee a couple of those babies
woud kick ass... who needs nightvision goggles when youve got the same thing
built into your head?)
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