And some people thought things might get weird after legalizing stem cell research.....

Britain To Go Ahead With Human-Animal Embryos For Research:
"The British government published its draft bill to overhaul the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act this week and it differs from the White Paper introduced late last year in that research using part human part animal embryos is to be allowed after all.

Some news reports are saying this is a major shift by government ministers after the angry reaction to the White Paper from scientists, MPs and patient groups that banning such research would impede medical breakthroughs.

The bill covers a number of areas, including research using three types of human-animal embryo:

* Cytoplasmic embryo or cybrid: where a human cell is inserted into an animal's egg that has been stripped of nearly all its nuclear DNA. The embryo would be 99.9 per cent human and 0.1 per cent animal.
* Human-animal chimera: where animal cells are introduced into human embryos.
* True human-animal hybrids: where a human egg is fertilized by animal sperm or vice versa.

The new bill will allow research to use cybrids and chimera, but not the true human-animal hybrids. If passed, the law will require all such embryos to be destroyed after 14 days; and under no circumstances would it be legal to implant them into a womb."

Yeah, I'm sure they'll *never* let one of these come to full term, say 10, 20 years from now. Right. Maybe 51% animal, so they feel justified in locking it up in a room somewhere and studying it for it's lifetime.

I suggest next they work on transferring the brains of quadriplegic people into healthy, mobile chimpanzees. Seems to follow to me.