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Don't Put Human Genes Into Goats for Drug Development!
Target: Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Sponsored by: Care2
Sponsored by: Care2
The Food and Drug Administration is currently reviewing ATryn, a new pharmaceutical drug that comes from the milk of genetically modified goats. Scientists in New England have developed transgenic goats that posses a human gene. This gene makes the goats produce human proteins in their milk, and this protein forms the basis of the ATryn drug.
By putting human genes into goats, bioengineers are turning helpless animals into mere drug factories. Indeed, fewer than 10 out of every 100 animals injected with the human gene while still in their mother's womb will be able to produce the altered milk. The other baby goats bred for drug production are killed immediately. What's more, some "successful" transgenic baby goats develop severe birth defects that scientists don't understand.
Help stop this cruel farming process before it becomes widespread! Urge the FDA commissioner to deny ATryn and any other drug that comes from genetically altered animals.
By putting human genes into goats, bioengineers are turning helpless animals into mere drug factories. Indeed, fewer than 10 out of every 100 animals injected with the human gene while still in their mother's womb will be able to produce the altered milk. The other baby goats bred for drug production are killed immediately. What's more, some "successful" transgenic baby goats develop severe birth defects that scientists don't understand.
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# 21,350:
4:55 am PDT, Oct 8,
Nancianne Edone, New Jersey
HOW MESSED UP ARE YOU CONCENTRATION-CAMP-MENTALITY RESEARCHERS ? CRUELTY BEYOND FATHOMABLE ! THERE ARE ANCIENT BELLA LUGOSI HORROR FILMS LIKE THIS - - WAS IT ISLAND OF THE DAMNED ?
HOW MESSED UP ARE YOU CONCENTRATION-CAMP-MENTALITY RESEARCHERS ? CRUELTY BEYOND FATHOMABLE ! THERE ARE ANCIENT BELLA LUGOSI HORROR FILMS LIKE THIS - - WAS IT ISLAND OF THE DAMNED ?
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4:17 am PDT, Oct 8,
Dawn Gerold, Illinois
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3:12 am PDT, Oct 8,
Anja Wuyts, Bahrain
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3:01 am PDT, Oct 8,
Lara Ruffinatto, Italy
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11:54 pm PDT, Oct 7,
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# 21,345:
10:27 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Kyna Crain, Montana
# 21,344:
9:35 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Alexandria ALLOCO, Nevada
We have gone way too far now with the treatment of are animals, we control,manipulate,abuse,and now mutalate,experiment,and kill the list is endless of what we have done to them -please lets find some other methods to help the world that will not leave out humanity*
We have gone way too far now with the treatment of are animals, we control,manipulate,abuse,and now mutalate,experiment,and kill the list is endless of what we have done to them -please lets find some other methods to help the world that will not leave out humanity*
# 21,343:
8:18 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Lisa Elliot, New York
# 21,342:
7:29 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Lila BRAHIMI, France
"the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged on the way its animals are treated" - Mahatma Gandhi
"the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged on the way its animals are treated" - Mahatma Gandhi
# 21,341:
7:23 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Mark Smith, New York
# 21,340:
7:03 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Lisa Racz, Arizona
Animal testing is sooooooo out dated. Stop it already. Instead use cloned human cells only. I don't mean to clone a person and use it either. Scientists need to stop playing God. Opps I mean Satan by performing satanic rituals. You get the just of what I mean.
Animal testing is sooooooo out dated. Stop it already. Instead use cloned human cells only. I don't mean to clone a person and use it either. Scientists need to stop playing God. Opps I mean Satan by performing satanic rituals. You get the just of what I mean.
# 21,339:
7:00 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Stacey Tate, Illinois
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3:30 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Sontra Daemion, Texas
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3:03 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Fernando Del bosque, Florida
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1:49 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Terry Smith, New York
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1:20 pm PDT, Oct 7,
Laura Parish, Michigan
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9:23 am PDT, Oct 7,
Kara Weinand, Washington
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9:16 am PDT, Oct 7,
Noah Koski, Idaho
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8:55 am PDT, Oct 7,
Beth Seiler, Oregon
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8:34 am PDT, Oct 7,
Lisa Barney, Utah
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8:31 am PDT, Oct 7,
Robert Baker, New Jersey
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Diana White Eagle, Michigan
# 21,326:
7:55 am PDT, Oct 7,
Erin Baker, Tennessee
# 21,325:
7:32 am PDT, Oct 7,
Terri Barreras, Illinois
this is disgusting! leave the innocent animals alone, USE PEOPLE instead!
this is disgusting! leave the innocent animals alone, USE PEOPLE instead!
# 21,324:
6:59 am PDT, Oct 7,
Amanda Minnix, Maryland
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6:37 am PDT, Oct 7,
Tina Bray, Michigan
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6:19 am PDT, Oct 7,
Becky Bralek, Ohio
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Larry Lowis, Michigan
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Donna Hamsher, Louisiana
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Gwen Werries, Pennsylvania
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5:16 am PDT, Oct 7,
Bryan Shane, Ohio
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3:03 am PDT, Oct 7,
Debra Hohnhorst, California
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Mieke Bernaards, Belgium
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12:54 am PDT, Oct 7,
Samantha Labushagne, South Africa
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12:33 am PDT, Oct 7,
Sally Court, United Kingdom
# 21,312:
12:17 am PDT, Oct 7,
Christine Lawrence, Nevada
# 21,311:
11:54 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Samantha Dolan, California
This is disgusting and I dare say dishonorable. Yes I went there. Dishonorable. I know that the US has pretty much spat upon the concept of honor and perhaps even the ideal of respect for one another much less our animals or livestock but this is disgraceful. To kill so many animals off of a small percentage of success? How do you justify this? You can't. It's either greed or ludicrous idealism that fuels this.
This is disgusting and I dare say dishonorable. Yes I went there. Dishonorable. I know that the US has pretty much spat upon the concept of honor and perhaps even the ideal of respect for one another much less our animals or livestock but this is disgraceful. To kill so many animals off of a small percentage of success? How do you justify this? You can't. It's either greed or ludicrous idealism that fuels this.
# 21,310:
11:54 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Angie Pazhavila, Washington
# 21,309:
11:49 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Lesley Hatton, Netherlands
# 21,308:
11:48 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Juliana Carpino, Canada
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10:28 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Ashley Lillard, Alaska
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10:20 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Eric Graham, North Carolina
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9:30 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Peggy Leviton, Washington
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9:09 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Juan Gallegos, Nevada
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9:04 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Jessica Stone, Massachusetts
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8:49 pm PDT, Oct 6,
Petra Salonen, Finland
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8:26 pm PDT, Oct 6,
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