I do not know if many of you have heard, but a crazy thing happened in my city Boca Raton, FL. Boca Raton is famous for its snowbirds (people from the northeast coming down seasonally to get away from the snow), its celebrities, and its beaches, but now we are famous for something else. The first cloned dog in the United States. That is right a couple had a labrador named Lancelot who passed away from cancer. They decided to freeze his DNA 5 years ago, and now they just spent $155,000 to clone Lancelot who was born about 10 weeks ago. They had it perfomed in South Korea, and his name you guessed it Lancelot Encore. As you can see he is very cute, but come on that is just a little nuts.
I guess the economy is not so bad for some people or their priorities are a little backwards. I love dogs. I l love people a little less, but I really do not love people who get media attention for doing something that many of us just thinks is pretty stupid. I do believe they should be able to do what they want with their money. The real issue I have is if we do not allow for cloning of dogs in the United States then why can you bring back a cloned dog into the United States. I wonder if there were tests done to make sure it was not bringing back diseases. As clonging is in its infancy stage, shouldn't there be more research before allowing something like a dog to be cloned in a country on the other side of the world. How do we know it there are not side effects to clonging? I like many think it is a stupid decision to spend $155,000 for a cloned dog, but I believe it is there decision. However it is the government's job to make sure that there are no ill effects from allowing this to happen. When are we going to be able to bring back Abraham Lincoln or Grandma Esther? Where does this end?
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