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
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.
> 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.