• vegeta@lemmy.world
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    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?

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      He was releasing them back into the wild. There’s a difference between domestication and fucking with the ecosystem imo.

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        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

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        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

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          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