to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures” on the Earth.
Like dog breeds, hybrid vegetables, racehorses, or any other myriad of plants and animals that we selectively alter the traits of?
So you just make shit up to post? Did you even read the article? Show me where it says that he was releasing them into the wild? I have a feeling if you even opened the link you just looked at the pretty pictures because the first paragraph says:
An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota
I read this article https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/01/clone-hybrid-sheep-montana-sentence/, it mentions it much later and I did miss the part that specified captive. But he also sold to a bunch of places, including private individuals and other breeders. It’s not hard to imagine that some will make it into the wild even from captive grounds. He was told not to do it specifically for this reason.
In 2014, Schubarth petitioned the state of Montana to allow Marco Polo argali into the state, but officials denied the request due to the potential for disease transmission to native species and the risk of the species establishing feral populations.
Schubarth sold 11 sheep with one-quarter of Montana Mountain King’s genetics for $13,200 total to two people in Texas, prosecutors said. He also traded one of that sheep’s offspring for $10,000 and sold dozens of straws of its semen to breeders in other states.
I guess I’m at fault in this though. Looking at it, I imagine nothing gets bred and then released into the wild. I don’t know much about hunting since I consider it a disgusting hobby.
I must’ve missed that part. I thought it was only for captive hunting, which wouldn’t make it any different than the other exotic animals kept on captive hunting farms
Na the dude you responded to is just making shit up. Nothing in the article says anything about releasing them into the wild and specifically says for captive hunting.
An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in central Asia and the US to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota
Oh. He wants to hunt to the sheep. He wants to create them, let them loose, and then hunt them.
I was imagining the sheep would be his hunting companion, like he’s a modern day Paul Bunyan with a giant sheep instead of an ox.
Oh sure, when some guy in a lab coat does it they get the Nobel prize. I try to combine a bear and a pig, and all of a sudden someone wants to make a Federal case out of it
The bear-pig part merely raised eyebrows. Manbearpig is what got the feds involved.
“I will have to work the rest of my life to repair everything I’ve done,” Schubarth told the judge just before sentencing.
You’re 81. The rest of your life is not very long.
