S. Koreans Clone, Eat Dog
South Korean Scientists Clone First Dog
Quote:
“Dog eggs have been problematic because they are released from the ovary at an earlier, less mature stage than in other mammal. This time, the researchers collected more mature eggs from the donors' fallopian tubes… They implanted 1,095 cloned embryos into 123 dogs and just three pregnancies resulted. That's a cloning efficiency rate lower than experiments with cats and horses. One fetus miscarried and one puppy died of pneumonia 22 days after birth.”
Despite the difficulties, these dogged (pun intended—hee, hee!) and persistent attempts to clone a dog indicates that the Koreans must have found a particularly tasty pooch worth cloning!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
The truth is, most Koreans do NOT eat dog. Dog eating is very rare. I ate at countless restaurants in Seoul, and I never saw dog on the menu. Based off of numerous conversations with Koreans, I learned that one has to seek out specific hole-in-the-wall type eateries if one has an insatiable craving for canine. Koreans do not eat dog steaks, or dog ribs, or dog burgers; rather, pieces of dog meat are served in a stew. Dog is eaten because of its supposed health benefits, like increased virility.
The fact is, a lot of Koreans own dogs as pets and I didn’t meet a single Korean who ate dog. I met a lot of Koreans who love dogs.
Quote:
“Dog eggs have been problematic because they are released from the ovary at an earlier, less mature stage than in other mammal. This time, the researchers collected more mature eggs from the donors' fallopian tubes… They implanted 1,095 cloned embryos into 123 dogs and just three pregnancies resulted. That's a cloning efficiency rate lower than experiments with cats and horses. One fetus miscarried and one puppy died of pneumonia 22 days after birth.”
Despite the difficulties, these dogged (pun intended—hee, hee!) and persistent attempts to clone a dog indicates that the Koreans must have found a particularly tasty pooch worth cloning!
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
The truth is, most Koreans do NOT eat dog. Dog eating is very rare. I ate at countless restaurants in Seoul, and I never saw dog on the menu. Based off of numerous conversations with Koreans, I learned that one has to seek out specific hole-in-the-wall type eateries if one has an insatiable craving for canine. Koreans do not eat dog steaks, or dog ribs, or dog burgers; rather, pieces of dog meat are served in a stew. Dog is eaten because of its supposed health benefits, like increased virility.
The fact is, a lot of Koreans own dogs as pets and I didn’t meet a single Korean who ate dog. I met a lot of Koreans who love dogs.
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