Thursday, July 17, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper painting
Gustav Klimt Klimt Sappho painting

It seems like science fiction, but it's already a reality: milk from cloned cows, and it's coming to a grocery store near you unless the federal government decides to intervene.
An experimental dairy farm in Wisconsin is producing some of the world's first milk from a herd of 21 cloned cows, 17 of them from the same original animal, all genetically identical.Infigen, the biotech company that runs the farm, says its cows are normal and healthy, the milk looks and tastes just like any other. The lack of any completed scientific study on the milk's safety doesn't stop Infigen's president, Michael Bishop, from pouring himself a glass. "It's delicious," he said.Bishop is not concerned about what might be wrong with the milk. He thinks it's perfectly normal and would like to start selling it as soon as he can. "Scientifically, I have no basis to believe otherwise," Bishop said. "I don't like pouring all this milk down the drain."

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