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...cultivate and raise our own fruit, vegetables, poultry, and livestock free of harmful chemicals and hormones," says the menu...
...Spielberg, "the worst days came any time I had to have people take their clothes off and be humiliated and reduce themselves down to livestock. That's what tore me up the most. It was the worst experience in my life." Embeth Davidtz agrees. She was in one of these scenes, nude, her head shaved. "It's not like a love scene where you disrobe and there's something in the moment. Here I'm standing there like a plucked chicken, nothing but skin and bone." That is to say, stripped of human dignity...
...only member of the Harvard staff who got my first degree in agriculture and who specialized in animal husbandry," he said. "I discovered that it's not a hell of a lot of use to create better livestock and vegetables if you can't sell it so I shifted from trying to improve to the problems of the economy...
...people have certainly tried to turn livestock cloning into a booming branch of agribusiness, and they're still trying. Wisconsin-based American Breeders Service, a subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., now owns the rights to cattle-cloning technology developed by Granada Biosciences, a once high-flying biotech firm that went out of business in 1992. The process calls for single cells to be separated from a growing calf embryo. Each cell is then injected into an unfertilized egg and implanted in the womb of a surrogate cow. Because the nucleus of the unfertilized egg is removed beforehand, it contains...
...large numbers of identical calves runs counter to what breeders strive to do. Alberti wants to create cows even better than Twinkie, and the only way to do that is by constantly reshuffling the genetic deck with a fresh supply of genes. Indeed, rather than a major advance in livestock breeding, cloning taken to extremes could prove to be the exact opposite -- a big step, all right, but in the wrong direction...