I hesitated to embed because of the swear word, but… that was a f*cking idiot bear. You know what you need, to fight pigs? A hand grenade, and a safe place to throw it from. They put lugs on the sides of boar spears because otherwise the wild boar will just keep coming up the shaft, purely to wreck your day before it dies. Their domestic cousins are likewise ill-tempered about being raised as a food source.
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Tweet of the Day, DAMN YOU SCIENTISTS NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS edition.
Why, scientists? WHY?
Scientists created genetically modified low-fat pigs using a gene-editing technique known as, wait for it, CRISPR! https://t.co/bv6zQulpYd
— MPR News (@MPRnews) October 24, 2017
Continue reading Tweet of the Day, DAMN YOU SCIENTISTS NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS edition.
Scientists on track to eliminate most domesticated animals.
…I exaggerate: absent a Singularity, it would take too long for the technology to percolate through the Third World to guarantee extinction events for our food animals. But the possibility is there:
Scientists turn stem cells into pork
LONDON – Call it pork in a petri dish — a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon.
Written by someone who hasn’t seen a pig lately, I’d wager. Pigs are large, aggressive, dangerously smart animals that know why we keep them, and who aren’t averse to returning the favor if they can manage it. It’s not like they’re horses; people don’t really like them much, except for maybe the potbellied subspecies. Replace them with a vat of regenerating bacon and most people will never miss the species once it’s gone.
Moe Lane
PS: To sort-of reference Harry Turtledove