Das immer schon schwer ambivalente Verhältnis der durchgrünten Zeitgeistapostel zum Reich der Mitte könnte wohl einen weiteren heftigen Dämpfer erhalten, wenn sich dies hier herumsprechen sollte: Alzheimer-Klonschweine im Chop Suey...

"China Pioneers Factory Cloning"

zitat The American Interest, Jan. 18, 2014
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A Chinese company is mass producing cloned pigs at an unprecedented pace, hinting at what may be the future of how we source our meat and test our medical products. The Beijing Genomic Institute (BGI) is cloning 500 pigs a year at a facility in rural China, and these pigs could be very good for our health, for once. The BBC reports:

"The point of the work is to use pigs to test out new medicines. Because they are so similar genetically to humans, pigs can serve as useful “models”. So modifying their genes to give them traits can aid that process.
One batch of particularly small pigs has had a growth gene removed – they stopped growing at the age of one. Others have had their DNA tinkered with to try to make them more susceptible to Alzheimer’s."

BGI is also the undisputed world leader in genomic sequencing, and in addition to identifying genetic markers for diseases, they’re also working to produce bigger, better tasting pigs. As BGI’s co-founder Wang Jun put it, ”if it tastes good you should sequence it.”
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