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What a schmuck. He’ll just deny the results to save his itty bitty quail(ing) eggs.
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I mean, I’ll be honest…as much as this guy deserves it, I kind of don’t want that video out there anyway.
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Do I want him (or someone more qualified) to do it (for him) on video? Well, I sure AF wouldn’t watch it.
I won’t say anything else, other than pointing out his mind’s already been gelded.
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Ah. “Commissioner Castration.” Got it.
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Perfection.
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I was puzzled. Thank you.
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I got that wrong he told Alex Jones about it and Alex told everybody…
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The Grate Cheese Robbery.
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Saw this in the latest issue of High Country News:
The thriller you never asked for: Jurassic Park meets Frankenstein, or rather, “Frankensheep.”
Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 81, of Vaughn, Montana, was sentenced to six months in prison and thousands of dollars in fines for illegally breeding and selling cloned sheep hybrids to captive hunting operations. Schubarth violated the Lacey Act, which prohibits animal trafficking, along with international treaties designed to prevent invasive species from harming domestic wildlife, Popular Science reported.
Schubarth obtained, um, “parts” of a dead male Marco Polo argali sheep from Kyrgyzstan — the largest sheep species in the world and much sought after by trophy hunters — and had a lab use its genetic tissue to create embryo clones. The embryos were then artificially implanted into ewes on his ranch, resulting in “numerous hybrid offspring.” Over time, a “pure male Marco Polo argali” was produced, which Schubarth named “Montana Mountain King.” Other ewes were artificially inseminated with MMK’s semen and the resulting offspring were “extremely large, never before-seen hybrid supersheep.”
And if this isn’t bizarre enough, Schubarth also sold supersheep semen to breeders in other states. Sheep with just 25% of MMK’s DNA can bring $15,000 per head. This is some next-level super-villain nonsense and so baaad that The Onion satirized it, commenting that “Illegal sheep geneticists don’t last long in prison.”
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The cloning step seems complicated. Would it have been that hard to smuggle in fertilized eggs?
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Well, I’m not an illegal sheep geneticist (yet!) & I’m just re-posting what I read.
If this is a wild sheep, I’m guessing it would be a lot harder to obtain its fertilized eggs than, say, a piece of skin or whatever, especially from Kyrgyzstan.
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of course. the illicit trade in Kyrgish argali sheep gentic material is conducted on The Silk Road.
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Hiding eggs in a hollow staff and heading straight back for Constantinople has worked before, under completely different circumstances!
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