Ethics of Transgenic Pets

[Mendel's Balls]

Do you think owning/making a transgenic or genetically engineered pet is wrong?

FYI, in case anyone didn't know, a transgenic organism possesses a gene or genes that have been transferred from a different species using recombinant DNA technology. The transgene(s) can be from very distantly related organisms (different Kingdoms). This is not science fiction anymore-the world's first transgenic pet, Glofish (a transgenic zebrfish), has been on the market since 2003.

[Mendel's Balls]

For those of you who answer "Yes-For Another reason"....feel free to post that reason if you desire.

[littleindiangirl]

I am undecided!

[Mendel's Balls]

Wops I probably should have posted this in the "General Pets" forum. We get so many new forums and subforums here it hard to keep track!

[littleindiangirl]

The biggest question that will solve most of the worlds problems....

Are pigs going to fly?

[AndrewGeibel]

Spider pig spider pig does whatever spider pig does.

[Mendel's Balls]

The biggest question that will solve most of the worlds problems....

Are pigs going to fly?

Or better yet pigs that will help real envirnomental problems such as large algal blooms in lakes, river, etc.....ever hear of Enviropigs?

[_Venom_]

I think it's okay. In the future it could benefit humans...

[Mendel's Balls]

Wops I probably should have posted this in the "General Pets" forum. We get so many new forums and subforums here it hard to keep track!

Looks like some nice moderator or administrator answered my prayers. Thank you whomever you are!

[Mendel's Balls]

BTW there is a patent to make transgenic reptiles.


See http://www.google.com/patents?id=ttq...ansgenic+snake

or

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/US20080005807.html