Does anyone else find this disturbing, or am I just looking at it wrong?

Question

If you've seen the "glow in the dark cats", you'll get this, if not, go to Yahoo's homepage and there's a video about it. Anyway. I saw the news post a few days ago as well. For some reason, it really bothers me that they CLONED these poor kitties that glow in the dark, even if that wasn't the intention. They're cloned mutants now, and I feel bad for them. Especially because they're going to be used in research. It just seems so very wrong to me. I know animal research has been going on for quite some time, but this particular case just struck a chord with me. Does anyone else feel this way, or am I looking at it wrong? If I am, please give me YOUR view on it - no slamming me, please, be polite and be an adult about it. I'm open to other opinions or else I wouldn't have asked this question - unless they involved "cats suck they should all be killed" or some other equally uninformed response.

Actually, Tracy, in the first article it did say that the glowing part was indeed an accident - they were trying to do something that would help for curing diseases and everything, and they ended up glowing in the dark. Just so you know :)
To the rest of you - thank you all so much for the mature responses! I do agree with a lot of you. Thanks for your opinions!

Answer 1

Yeah..i`m with you on this one.Somehow animal testing hits home harder when its something cuter than rats involved.Okay,no doubt lives are saved by the use of test animals but how do we balance that against the basic lack of humanity we seem to show to our fellow creatures.Can`t they use those imprisoned for life instead?Cant say i`d lose any sleep if rose west was given up for medical testing.

Answer 2

There are three different ways to clone mammals. They can be cloned either through the "twinning" method, the "Roslin Technique" or the "Honolulu Technique." The first method, "twinning," is the splitting of a cell from an embryo. The second method, the "Roslin Technique," also known as the "Nuclear Transfer" method, was used to create Dolly the sheep and the third technique, the "Honolulu Technique" has been developed most recently and is considered the most effective technique. The concept of twinning is as follows: once a sperm has fertilised an egg, it may divide into eight cell embryos which may then separate and in turn, these cells would then be able to be implanted into the uteri of eight separate mothers. Thus, eight clones will be borne to different mothers.(4) Nuclear transfer, one of the steps in creating Dolly, is the technique currently used in the cloning of adult animals. Although twinning exists, it can only used before an organism's cells differentiate. Since the focus of this paper is on a project similar to the Dolly project, there will be a more in depth explanation of how nuclear transfer is done. Nuclear transfer requires two cells, a donor cell and an oocyte, or egg cell. The egg cell can be taken out either from the donor of the host sheep. (5) The egg cell must be enucleated, or in other words, its nucleus must be taken out. (4) The two cells are then joined using an electric charge and implanted into the host sheep. The cell acts like a normal egg and grows a clone sheep, which is then born just like a normal baby. If no errors occur, a perfect replica of the donor animal will be born. (5) The Honolulu technique, the newest and most effective method was done on mice, the most difficult mammals to clone due to the fact that almost immediately after a mouse egg is fertilised, it begins dividing. Sheep, on the other hand, have eggs that wait several hours before dividing, possibly giving the egg time to reprogram its new nucleus. Despite the challenge, the success rate in this case was much higher than at the Roslin Institute wherein one in two hundred twenty seven clones were created as opposed to three out of every one-hundred attempts. For this technique, three different cells were used and there were no in vitro procedures since the cells used here were not cultured outside the animals.

Answer 3

I even have mixed thoughts in this concern. i'm 18. I graduated from extreme college a 300 and sixty 5 days early. 0.5 of my graduating class became into pregnant. I have been given married 3 days after commencement. i'm in college and my husband and that i've got been attempting to have a newborn because of the fact that till now we've been married. on the city I stay in there are ladies interior the JR. extreme pregnant. it is purely loopy. i think of my opionion varies from person to person. a number of those ladies have not have been given any clue what it takes to enhance a newborn. for occasion my pal beth purely had a newborn in Nov. she purely became 17. She smokes pot and drinks whilst she is breast feeding. She doesnt placed her toddler in a vehicle seat. Then there is my pal Tiffany who's 17 and purely had a newborn and she or he's doing each and every thing a great deal plus going to college (Beth dropped out.) In my city there's a 12 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous woman who purely had twins. and the worst section is she willingly have been given pregnant by making use of a 26 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous guy. Its purely no longer truthful... My husband and that i'd like a newborn extra then something and have the money and the flexibility of elevating a newborn. yet a number of those ladies that the two do no longer desire there toddler or won't be able to preserve a newborn can get pregnant. i think of it relies upon of the intellingence of the the lady and the supporrt of the folk round her.

Answer 4

There was a video of these cats on Yahoo! this morning, and they are sweet and exquisite. If these loving creatures are to be used in research, I am willing to refinance the farm, invest in an arsenal, travel to Korea and free these beautiful animals.

What these people have done, accidental or not, has caused such a stir, and the cats themselves are so beautiful, that they have probably attracted funding as well -- from people who love the cats. Maybe I just want to believe it (to me, it is inconceivable that anyone would harms these animal, but then I can be really stupid about the depth of human depravity). But I would imagine that offers to adopt these cats have rolled in from around the world. I mean, I would love to have one. Wouldn't you?

Answer 5

I totally agree with you - I felt the same exact thing when I watched that video. Cats kept in cages for research to me will always be cruel but to genetically alter them to make them glow in the dark? What is the point of that? Cruel + ridiculous. Wrong on every level. And yet Yahoo! puts this in the "cute cat videos" category... Very sad and heartless.

Answer 6

Cloning has its advantages and disadvantages just as everything in this world does. It can help cure some illnesses..prevent some..while at the same time you are creating an animal and it not being unique and all. That is the way I look at it. If they are doing some stupid kind of research on them with no meaning then yea it is horrible. But if they think they can cure something or help get a grip on a disease or illness then it is good.

Answer 7

you know, i have a problem with cloning all together. i just don't see the point. i didn't read the entire news story on these cats so i don't know if the "glow" was intentional or not but it's still just wrong.

Answer 8

I can understand why you see it as cruel. If the cats are not tortured or suffer any way when being studied then it's ok. But if the experimenters are planning on performing tests which cause the cats any type of pain then i'm not ok with that.

Answer 9

I don't know why it bothers you that they are cloned. In the end, all of this knowledge and technology makes us a better species. What bothers me is that they glow. How are you supposed to get any rest with a light bulb lying next to you?

Answer 10

The glowing effect is due to the special chemical within the cats. It is cool... not eerie.. Reminds me of Rudolf.