I recently started receiving the Dairy Goat Journal magazines, and have been enjoying them for the most part. But when I read in this month's magazine about a man who has begun implanting spider genes into goats, and creating a Genetically Altered creature, I wasn't so thrilled. :-/ It just doesn't seem right... To mix gene pools like that for whatever reason we want. A spider was created to be a spider. Likewise, a goat was created to be a goat. These scientists really have no clue as to what negative effects might surface from such a mutant, and so they're busy making more of them! Sure, sure, I read the article about how this man has these high goals of having easier access to spider silk now, through the dairy goats (that's why he altered them; to get spider silk from a goat), and how that's gonna' help people, etc. etc. But, my mind can't get past the concept of canonizing foreign genes into a completely different species of animals. Harrumph....
Anywho, you can read the article for yourself, HERE.
Anywho, you can read the article for yourself, HERE.
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Goat Song- might not be as diverse as Cold Antlers doings but you might want to consider joining us in the state south of you at the CVDGA education in Nov!
Hmmm, I hadn't heard of what you mentioned... Do you have a link with more info on that? :)
Oh, and welcome to my blog!
Ask and yea shall receive, unless you are asking for 2nd cutting alfalfa from a first year field, ;-)
http://www.nvdga.org/
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