Sneeze Free Cats

A Company in Los Angeles has announced that they are to make allergy free cats by genetically modifying them. They are already taking $250 deposits for a kitten. The small print says that the deposit is non-refundable even if a kitten is never provided. They hope to be producing 200,000 kittens by 2007. Each kitten will be $3500. That's $700,000,000 a year.
They will be eliminating, by RNA interference, the FEL D 1 protein that is secreted into the fur which causes the allergy. This has never been done before. Even if it works this may not stop you being allergy free around this type of cat since they produce many other allergens and you may be allergic to one of these.
Once again I say What is the point of this type of work when there are many more important things to do in life.

40% of bottled water dangerous

Reports just in that of 68 commercial bottled waters from 16 countries tested 40% had bacterial contamination. Thanks to Dutch scientists for this information.
They say that normal people will be OK (but when have we heard this before) but people with impared immune systems should drink tap water.
I say we should all drink tap water. I have been all over the UK and have only a couple of times found the tap water undrinkable. In a couple of cases this was a temporary problem. Anyone who buys bottle water in the UK is just wasting money.

Pet Transplants

How can anyone in the world justify pet transplants when around the world people are starving to death. You pet is not that important. Let it die like all pets do.
If you have to do it then I think you should give the same amount it costs to have the transplant to one of the proper charities around the world to help people in the less well off world.
And finally some questions that I do not have answers to:

• Where to the organs that are used for these transplants come from ?

• Does someone breed cats and dogs, etc just to provide the organs ?

• Are there animal organ harvesters who kidnap other people's pets to provide the organs ?
  
• Humans reject organs because of incompatibilities and all have to take suppresant drugs so do pets have to take similar drugs ?

• Which drug company worked on these drugs if they exist ?

And in the same vein as Bird Flu

Did you know that until recently in the UK it was accepted practice to take chicken poo plus all the scrapings off the floor of chicken sheds and mix it with other ingredients and then feed it to pigs and cattle.

I wonder what idiot thought that would be a good idea. The same one that took dead pigs and cattle and with other ingredients mixed them up to make chicken feed.

Do you see some sort of cycle here. Unbelievable really. I wonder how many people would become veggies if they knew what their meat had been fed on.

Soylent Green anyone ?

Bird Flu

Just reported is the death of 23 rare tigers and another 30 ill in a private zoo in China. The reason for death was that the tigers had been fed the carcasses of chickens that were infected with Bird Flu. Now I'm sorry for the loss of the tigers but what sort of idiot takes chickens that are dead from a disease and in a country that has had its problems with Bird Flu then goes 'I know I'll feed these dead chickens to my rare tigers'. The sort of idiot who is attempting to save money that's the sort of idiot.

Religion invented by women

I was reading the Dilbert Future today and read the statement that women must have invented Religion as a way of controlling man.
Now I thought that this was rubbish until I had a shower. This is my usual thinking place and my brain was stuck on this idea. Could it be true ? Well let's think of some examples:

1. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Women wanted at least one day off a week and so the Sabbath was invented.
2. Honour thy father and thy mother. So honouring involves 50% of people who happen to be women.
3. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Stop shagging around and have sex with only me (said the woman).
4. Thou shall not steal. My collection of humourous naked fat children that say 'Love is...' all over them (said the woman).
5. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. Especially his ass because I didn't marry a man who covets asses. And don't get me started on either his wife or maidservant.

I may have missed out some of the commandments but none of the important ones.

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