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To: Red Badger

As unusual as this sounds, how is this different than breeding a new species of cow?
Unwise maybe without taking a close look at the genetics but criminal, I don’ think so.


59 posted on 03/14/2024 2:40:53 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

The concern is importing pathogens to a naïve population.

Look what smallpox did to people in the new world.

A novel Mongolian form of, say, sheep anthrax could wipe out sheep ranching here.


61 posted on 03/14/2024 2:49:32 PM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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