"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote Are you clear on the
difference between cloning and recombinant DNA?
It
doesn't sound like it.

Cloning does not imply combination of genetic material from more than
one species.

Educate yourself.

reply: Thank you, my dear for introducing some logic and sanity into a
truly hysterical conversation.

I am currently forming a blog on heart conditions. I have twenty years
personal experiences with this. My sister has had a heart transplant, and
is a medical milestone pioneer patient of public record for having a couple
of "firsts" in the medical field. I will end up with about 30 URLs, all
heart related. I DO know a little on this subject.

The idea of using animals to harvest usable tissues in humans has been
around for a while. Pig and cow heart valves have been used in humans for a
long time. The idea of other organs is more recent. The issue of rejection
has been around since the first heart transplant, but has lessened.
Biogenetically engineering harvest animals is a HUGE step. We already grow
skin and various other things, and the technology and capabilities are
advancing rapidly.

The hysteria about someone finding out about this process and writing in
here in a "The sky is falling" mentality is sad and laughable. A real sign
of a person running on with very little or no information, and then not
understanding that little bit of information they do read.

In today's world, I am sure that most of us have eaten something genetically
altered, and it's common in the food industry, and has been even before DNA
was the big deal. Simply people taking plants and animals and crossing them
to get the best traits in a reproducible result.

I wonder about some people. Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth about
something they are not involved in, or know nothing about. I bet a dollar
that their attitude would turn 180 if they suddenly needed a heart or a
kidney or a cornea.

Thank you for the last line in your comment. It is truly profound.

This thread has also enlarged my round file, knowing that reading anything
in the future from this person would be futile. I advise others to assess
this and act accordingly.

Thanks again, Cindy.

Steve