Genetic Savings & Clone to Close Its Doors
For a while, I’ve been meaning to write about Genetic Saving & Clone, a biotech company that offers to clone your pet. But I’m just a little too late. At the end of this year, Genetic Savings & Clone will be going out of business. The price of a cloned cat was more than the market could bear; $50,000 reduced to $32,000. In the six years Genetic Savings & Clone was in business, it has sold only two cloned cats
Bryan Appleyard of Thought Experiments:
The idea that a cloned version of your pet is still your pet is absurd. I suppose with cats - behaviourally dull creatures - one could maintain this illusion. The reality, however, is that GSC was trying to make its money out of one of the great contemporary superstitions. This susperstition is faith in the magical powers of DNA.
Hey, don’t look at me. Check out Dr. Chopra over there.
PS Perhaps Allerca Lifestyle Pets, breeders of hypoallergenic cats, will fare better. (Thanks for the tip, Grace.)
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6 opinions for Genetic Savings & Clone to Close Its Doors
ckozus’ blog » Gatos hipoalegénicos
Oct 18, 2006 at 2:46 am
[...] Los que quieran un gatito de esas condiciones pueden ir ahorrando y pasarse por la página de precios de ALLERCA para ver como viene la mano, o pueden entrar aqui si quieren saber como se desarrollan los gatitos. El dato lo saqué de rebote en un post de Genetics and Health sobre el fracaso económico (por el momento) de la clonación de mascotas. Tecnorati tags: gatos, genetica [...]
GetSheila
Oct 18, 2006 at 7:38 am
Cats as behaviourally dull creatures? Oh my, Mr. Appleyard has never owned a cat, has he? If he has, it must have been brain damaged.
Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD
Oct 20, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Sheila: lol Maybe it’s Bryan who’s brain damaged.
JUST KIDDING, Bryan!!!
DatingTips
Mar 7, 2007 at 3:10 pm
A cat has 9 lives, so we can say it looks like it is cloning itself. The price is obvious too big and the target consumers for this service will be clearly a small amount of billionaires. The rest of us will buy another cat instead.
jane
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I think this was a great breakthrough. I hope they open their doors in the future.
Stuart H. McElroy
Feb 25, 2008 at 2:30 am
Cloning is discussed in my book “A New Look at the Universe and Why We Are Here”. Your
thinking will never be the same after you read it.
Order at $9.00 + 3.99 SH from Dorrance Publiching Co., Inc. 701 Smithfield St., 3rd Floor,
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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