We ran a story a week ago about lobbying efforts in England to obtain government sanction for a “research” effort using animal-human hybrids. Specifically, medical researchers wanted permission to cross humans with cows. The resulting life forms, claimed the researchers, would be perfect for various experiments on disease treatments.

Unbelievably, the government there has approved the project, after nearly a year of lobbying by the scientific community and their benefactors in the pharmaceutical industry.

The leading advocate is Professor Ian Wilmut, who headed the team which cloned Dolly the sheep.