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Post number 1737

veruca — Thu, 18 May 2000 14:32:18 -0800

By: veruca

veruca — Thu, 18 May 2000 14:34:58 -0800

It sounds like something the mad scientist on South Park would do.

By: katchomko

katchomko — Thu, 18 May 2000 14:43:33 -0800

My first question is, what does it do to the goats? I imagine stringy milk is no good for kids. But they won't produce milk unless they're post-partum. Are they keeping the goats loaded up on hormones? That's no good, it's going to lead to the same slew of health problems that dairy factory cows have. And the production process will probably end up being quite similiar. I don't have any problems at all with genetic engineering. I worked for several years at the world's leading cancer research institute, and I've seen the amazing things gene therapy can do. It's only a matter of scale between using e. coli to produce insulin for diabetics and using mammals' mammary glands as surrogate spinnerets. What worries me is that the drive for production and profits is going to lead to even more inhumane treatment of animals.

By: benbrown

benbrown — Thu, 18 May 2000 16:01:23 -0800

All I asked for was goats that spin webs from their teets! Jesus people, throw me a bone here!

By: andy

andy — Thu, 18 May 2000 16:12:01 -0800

um... i think it's kinda cool...

By: starduck

starduck — Thu, 18 May 2000 16:54:26 -0800

it's good that we can repair ligaments and repair blind people's eyes now. More people will be able to access metafilter

By: tomcosgrave

tomcosgrave — Thu, 18 May 2000 17:14:51 -0800

Ugh. That's gross. I think genetic engineering is useful, but that sort of stuff is disturbing. Reminds me of Frankenstein.

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Thu, 18 May 2000 18:27:54 -0800

Is it possible to do anything really significant with genetic engineering that *isn't* disturbing on some level? -Mars

By: smeat

smeat — Thu, 18 May 2000 19:12:43 -0800

Weren't they trying to breed a goat that had four asses, and this was kind of a "happy accident"? At least that's what I heard...

By: daveadams

daveadams — Thu, 18 May 2000 19:54:44 -0800

Does anyone else think it's funny that the URL to this article included the word "farticle"? Is that like a new word for radiation or something?

By: rory

rory — Thu, 18 May 2000 21:36:40 -0800

Damn, dave, you beat me to it! Which only goes to show that the Slashdotters are right after all - don't mask those URLs with JavaScript, or who knows what you'll miss out on.

By: premiumpolar

premiumpolar — Thu, 18 May 2000 22:19:46 -0800

Jeez! You two beat me to it also! Ha ha.... farticle. Ha. Oh jesus, that's funny.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 19 May 2000 07:16:44 -0800

Google-cached disobey zine w/ an article mocking the spider-goat. (I think they should name it a 'farticle', as in, "Gadzooks! The farticles laid their loathsome caprine eggs in Ernie!"

By: camworld

camworld — Fri, 19 May 2000 15:36:57 -0800

I have a genetic clone, and it didn't take any gene-splicing at all.

By: tranquileye

tranquileye — Fri, 19 May 2000 21:50:42 -0800

What does it taste like?

By: plinth

plinth — Mon, 22 May 2000 07:13:32 -0800

geez, and all this time I believed the Loverboy song about "Goat and Spider DNA Just Won't Splice"