Guest guest Posted November 24, 2000 Report Share Posted November 24, 2000 Excerpt from Organic Consumer's Association " What's wrong with Genetic Engineering? " http://www.purefood.org/text.html The genetic engineering and patenting of animals reduces living beings to the status of manufactured products and will result in much suffering. In January 1994, then-USDA Secretary Mike Espy announced that USDA scientists had completed genome " road maps " for cattle and pigs, a precursor to ever more experimentation on live animals. In addition to the cruelty inherent in such experimentation (the mistakes are born with painful deformities, crippled, blind, and so on), these " manufactured " creatures have no greater value to their " creators " than mechanical inventions. Animals genetically engineered for use in laboratories, such as the infamous " Harvard mouse " which contains a human cancer-causing gene that will be passed down to all succeeding generations, were created to suffer. A purely reductionist science, biotechnology reduces all life to bits of information (genetic code) that can be arranged and rearranged at whim. Stripped of their integrity and sacred qualities, animals who are merely objects to their " inventors " will be treated as such. Currently, more than 200 genetically engineered " freak " animals are awaiting patent approval from the federal government. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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