Posted on 09/30/2024 8:04:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Montana man found guilty of illegally cloning sheep is due to be sentenced today in a first-of-its-kind case.
Arthur 'Jack' Schubarth of Vaughn, 81 , used sperm imported from Kyrgyzstan to create a gigantic Marco Polo sheep he called the Montana Mountain King.
The decade-long attempt to clone and create hybrids from the hulking sheep, which can weigh 300lb and have curled horns up to five feet long, aimed to provide sheep to be used for trophy hunts in Texas and Minnesota.
Schubarth's attorney described his client's efforts as being like 'Jurassic Park' and told the court that cloning the enormous sheep has 'ruined his client's life'.
Schubarth - who has been in the trophy hunting business since 1987 - successfully cloned a Marco Polo argali sheep using remnants he bought from a hunter who had killed a sheep in Kyrgyzstan in 2019.
Schubart got a laboratory to create cloned embryos from Marco Polo argali sheep sperm.
After implanting the embryos in a ewe, a pure Marco Polo argali sheep was born, which Schubert named 'Montana Mountain King'- and which was used to artificially impregnate other ewes.
Montana Mountain King has now been confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.
Prosecutors are not seeking prison time for Schubarth - the maximum punishment is five years in prison, or a fine up to $250,000 or twice the defendant's financial gain.
His attorney said in the sentencing memo, 'Jack did something no one else could, or has ever done.
'On a ranch, in a barn in Montana, he created Montana Mountain King. MMK is an extraordinary animal, born of science, and from a man who, if he could rewrite history, would have left the challenge of cloning a Marco Polo only to the imagination of Michael Crichton ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That is exactly how you keep them around.
Starts with sheep, advances to Kahn Noonian Singh.
Eugenics wars here we come!
Yes, but he didn’t pay the government it’s cut.............
Early in the morning of July 2, 2005, an unknown person abandoned a man in the emergency room of the Enumclaw Community Hospital. The man who'd been dropped off did not have a pulse. Attempts to revive him failed. The police were called to investigate the mystery. Video footage revealed the license-plate number of the vehicle that brought the dead man to the hospital. The number led authorities to a farm on a street I am not going to name, a street that ends at the gate of a home. On the other side of the gate is a private road shaded by towering poplars. South of the farm is a field of grass and scrub. In the distance is a flowing glacial river whose course marks the end of King County and the beginning of Pierce County—the White River. Beyond that, the base of the great volcano.
Police soon figured out that the man at the hospital had died after having anal sex with a horse.
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2015/07/22/22580444/ten-years-later-the-town-of-enumclaw-still-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-you-know-what
Lol!
I hope the horse was okay...................
I could understand all of this if the MM sheep were carnivorous or detrimental to the environment, eco system or to some other mammalian species. None of this so what’s the big deal? Embrace the new species, it probably tastes pretty good and yields meat wise better than other dominant sheep species here in America.
“ Schubart got a laboratory to create cloned embryos from Marco Polo argali sheep sperm.”
1. You can’t create an embryo from sperm.
2. I’m not sure what laws were broken.
Apparently, someone DID think of it.
Actually, he was doing a good thing from a criticality point of view. He was eliminating the market for wild hunting of an endangered species, by providing a alternate version that would have had no effect on the wild population.
But, as they say, no good deed goes unpunished...............
And that is just the least amount of damage it could do.
Think Feral Hogs.
I never made a ewe turn...
but I did make her eyes roll.
Montana, where men are men and sheep are nervous..................
Neither a Whinny nor a Neigh was uttered
So what? What would have happened to that sperm if he hadn't used it?
I understand that...
...but at least this sperm wasn't wasted.
Regards,
Lol!
Not a bad-looking animal, unless you tell me it’s 8 feet tall or something.
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