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 ...
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did he ever talk to you about “stump broke” cows?
So if someone succeeds in cloning a Mammoth, what will the Deep State do to them?
Depends on whether they give 10% to the Big Guy or not.....................
LOL, no...not sure I want to know!!!!!
I'm a big fan of jury nullification and when considering my vote as a juror I will *always* consider the legitimacy of the law that the defendant is accused of having violated...among other things.
Grow up.
I’m worried about AI AI. That’s how ya get that woman from the end of The Menagerie (Star Trek pilot with Cmd Christopher Pike, later recycled).
1. You can’t create an embryo from sperm.
Well, that’s just it. I’m guessing he injected the sperm DNA into the ova.
“ Well, that’s just it. I’m guessing he injected the sperm DNA into the ova.”
Yeah, but that’s not a clone.
It said it was a clone.
Does this guy go by the name Dr. Alphonse Mephesto by chance?
Cloning is more unthinkable than bestiality?
LOL!
“Is that deed a crime now?”
Probably about ten years ago it was legal in Washington state - although I suppose some of it would come under cruelty to animals.
It finally was outlawed after some guy went to a farm, where the farmer prostituted out his animals, and the guy died. Turned out a horse was having sex with the guy, and tore him up. A friend dumped him off at the curb of a hospital where he bled out.
Best to figure out a “safe word” beforehand. And “nay” wouldn’t be a good choice.
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