Bah. It says in the article why they thought it was useful to do it, and it has nothing to do with wanting glowing cats. It's about seeing if you can get a cat that produces a certain protien. Using the same technique to get cats to produce a different protien could have all kinds of uses. They want to make strains of cats to study genetic disease.
What's cruel about inserting a peice of DNA into a zygote anyway?
Why do you think these kittens have been treated badly?
It makes me angry. I used to work in dog lab. I was a 'puppy petter.' If the experimental dogs don't get to play with and be hugged and petted and talked to by people, they get weird and might bite researchers, and their health is adversely affected by stress and this can screw up the results of the experiment. So they pay people to love the dogs and exercise them. Dog lab isn't a bad place for a dog to live, and nobody was ever mean to them, and they had pain meds when they needed them and somebody cried over them, hard. If you ever need a kidney transplant, you better bloody well give it up for me and my dead puppies that I loved, and if you never need one don't you dare tell me it wasn't worth it.
Glass f*ing houses, ladies. You want to see an animal that's been treated badly, look at your dinner. Or at premarin. In contrast, the welfare of animals used for scientific research is excellent. Hell, people treat their 'beloved' pets worse than the cats and dogs and rats in the facility I was at are treated.
There is no reason to test your facial moisturizer and make-up and stuff on animals, and while I'm all in support of real medical and scientific research using animals, do tell Mary Kay to stuff her dead tortured bunnies up her selfish withered fanny.
