Sow has flouro piglets

[Kiwi]

Poor animals look what they are doing to them. 
   

Beijing
January 10, 2008
Two piglets are irradiated by ultraviolet radiation to show their green fluorescent protein feature.




A fluorescent green Chinese pig has given birth to two piglets which share their mother's transgenic characteristic after she mated with an ordinary pig, state media said.

The mother sow is one of the three fluorescent green pigs successfully bred by a research team in December 2006 after they injected fluorescent green protein into pig embryos.

"The mouths, trotters and tongues of the two piglets glow green under ultraviolet light, which indicates the technology to breed transgenic pigs via cell nuclear transfer is mature," Liu Zhonghua, a professor at Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, was quoted as saying.

She produced 11 piglets on Monday but so far only two of them had inherited the fluorescent feature.

"This technology promises to breed excellent transgenic pigs and even raise special pigs to provide organs for human transplant operations in the future," Liu was quoted as saying.

Chinese scientists bred the pigs using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology following similar successes in the United States, South Korea and Japan.

China celebrates the start of the Year of the Rat in February, drawing a close to the Year of the Pig.

Reuters

[Rubystars]

It doesn't look like it harmed them. It's kind of cute.

Piglets always look cute, but when they get older they're kind of destructive, rooting up everything.

Hopefully they'll find good homes for these pigs where they'll be cared for.

[Kiwi]

I am more concerned with they took a poor pig and made them a freak. And the fact we share 95% of our DNA with pigs that is scary to think is this precursor to human experiments.

[cjd]

I am more concerned with they took a poor pig and made them a freak. And the fact we share 95% of our DNA with pigs that is scary to think is this precursor to human experiments.

Human experiments aside I have to agree thats a horrible thing to do to a poor animal. What was the point in doing something like this? This is the problem with countries like China with its billions of people life has little value. Soon we will see them doing this to humans. I am all for the advancement of science however something like this just seems pointless.

[Kiwi]

When have you ever known them to spend millions of dollars and time on something pointless......

[Rubystars]

Sadly I don't know if there's a way to stop human experimentation. When it comes to experimenting on human beings, even killing humans in the course of "science" (using parts from aborted babies, etc.) it looks like science is unfortunately going the way of Mengele when it comes to humans.

I hope there is a way to keep or make scientists go back to being ethical as they move forward and not allow abuses of human life.

[MassuhDGoodName]

Rubystars:  "...it looks like science is unfortunately going the way of Mengele when it comes to humans..."

This observation is correct, and portends a frightening world to come soon.

It appears that the "Dr. Mengeles" of the world today have been victorious in their quest to "Play G-d".

"I've seen the future, and it's murder"
-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen

The day is coming soon when the entire "civilized" world will be united under the dictatorship of madmen and mad scientists intent on wiping out the last remnants of Believers.

If and when human life can be extended almost infinitely thanks to genetic engineering, computerization, and robotics, only the wealthy elite will be able to take advantage of the new sciences.

It will not be possible to have a rapidly growing human overpopulation extending their life spans; if allowed the Earth's resources will be quickly stripped and depleted.

The elite wealthy will at that time take it upon themselves to begin killing as many human beings as possible.

There will be no other option for them.

Science run amok.

[Ambiorix]

Rubystars:  "...it looks like science is unfortunately going the way of Mengele when it comes to humans..."

This observation is correct, and portends a frightening world to come soon.

It appears that the "Dr. Mengeles" of the world today have been victorious in their quest to "Play G-d".

"I've seen the future, and it's murder"
-Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen

The day is coming soon when the entire "civilized" world will be united under the dictatorship of madmen and mad scientists intent on wiping out the last remnants of Believers.

If and when human life can be extended almost infinitely thanks to genetic engineering, computerization, and robotics, only the wealthy elite will be able to take advantage of the new sciences.

It will not be possible to have a rapidly growing human overpopulation extending their life spans; if allowed the Earth's resources will be quickly stripped and depleted.

The elite wealthy will at that time take it upon themselves to begin killing as many human beings as possible.

There will be no other option for them.

Science run amok.

Is Leonard Cohen a religious man?