(as you could prob guess, from rach) mucho ethics issues aside, i gotta admit they're damn cute.

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Noah [ 10/31/2004 20:36]: in response to an off-blog question asking how this is ethically diff from breeding: in my opinion, it's a matter of degrees. the (minor) ethics issues of breeding (when it goes far in one direction; creating breeds w defects for aesthetics, etc) are amplified once you have this granular level of control. engineering cats w/out a specific gene or making fish that glow (the first mainstream commercial genetically engineered pet) is also part of the same continuum as patented biologicals (like seeds, crops, and bacteria) -- and that field, while theoretically potentially ok, has some really scary stuff going on. esp when it comes to enforcement.