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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, the USDA announced
that scientists had completed genetic "road maps" for cattle and pigs,
a precursor to evermore 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, hundreds of genetically
engineered "freak" animals are awaiting patent approval from the federal
government. One can only wonder, after the wholesale gene-altering and
patenting of animals, will GE "designer babies" be next?
Information provided with the help of Ronnie Cummins Organic
Consumers Association
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