salmon giving birth to trout????????

[mrtomatoexpres]

on coast to coast radio i heard that in japan they took cells from a trout put them in the male salmon and the female salmon gave birth to baby healthy baby trout.they say it will save rare trout you can read it on coasttocoastam.com whats next

[redbrick]

To be honest, Charlie, that sort of thing is really blase and old news in the Genetics world. It's not much different than a surrogate mother situation where, say, a zebra embryo is implanted in a mare's uterus. Weirder still, there is a Japanese scientist desperately searching Siberia, hoping to find a perfectly preserved Woolly Mammoth containing still-viable genetic material, specifically sperm. He wants to use that material to fertilize a female African Elephant to produce "half-mammoths", and eventually breed breed them back to something resembling true Mammoths.

More frightening to me by far is the current practice of "trans-Kingdom" genetics, where animal DNA is implanted into food crops. Flounder genetics has been spliced into lettuce to increase frost hardiness, rice can now be grown that produces, among other things, human breast milk enzymes, and apples can supposedly be made immune from fire blight if we're only willing to allow Polyphemos Moth genetics to be spliced into them. Well, I for one am not willing.

I don't believe we have enough information and knowledge on the subject yet for these experimental ideas to be released on the world market. They are being released anyway, and I fear that if we aren't the ones who pay for that impatience, our children will be.

[LarryS]

Originally Posted by redbrick

More frightening to me by far is the current practice of "trans-Kingdom" genetics, where animal DNA is implanted into food crops. .

The process of doing this doesnt particularly bother me, and the goals
are admirable, but - I agree with you - the consequences of such work
could be very serious.

I guess that I have no faith that industry will wait until all the data is in before they let this sort of technology loose in the world. Safety often
trails the desire for quick profits.