No harm done, jer72.   (and she seems harmless, too)

ragmop,

I didn't realize who she was. Since I have not really been reading the blog that often lately I had't seen many of the new faces.

pssst, jer72:   remember that jen is a senior citizen so let's cut her some slack.  she's new at this.  I, for one, am enjoying her comments here and there.  She's sort of like Gracie Allen, if you are old enough to remember George and Gracie. 

Jen,

I think you really need to catch up to the blog. The snake topic has moved to cloned animals. As for a snake, I don't have a problem with eating a snake and the topic was not even about eat one but how the snake was killed.

Blendonw,

At this time and place I would say no I would not use a cloned animal to heal. Yes I know they are working on cloning body parts to generate missing or damaged organs and I feel that as long as it was never a complete clone it is questionably okay. However, I will say that in the case of both eating a clone or using one to survive a health problem or survivial situation may make me have a change of heart to live. I will say that by all possible means at this time and place I would rather not have clones for medical or food.

If I was badly burned, I would use whatever method worked and was available, cloned or not.  Is cloning animals really needed?  They seem to reproduce very readily without our help.   Cloning humans is just wrong, imho.  

If you were badly burned would you use cloned skin cultures to help you heal faster with less scaring or would you deal with it the old way?

Oh, I forgot to say, A snake really does taste like chicken.  If you were out in the fields and hungry, and God puts a nasty snake in front of you, would you act any different if a chicken was hiding under a rock?  Would you kill the chicken to feed your family, or would you let it run away, to be FREE, while your hungry children cry.

What on Gods green earth are you so upset about.  Why, when I was a youngster, I've seen many a snake (varmints we called them back then) get sliced in half by a garden hoe or shovel.  For goodness sake, that's why they have so many babies. 

I don't believed that the meat is being sold yet. I would still have some problems with eating the offspring also due to my belief and the question of possible health issues that may not have been found with clones.

It's happening huh? I'd think that cloned animals are too expensive to slaughter, rather I would think that they would be used as breeders...are you opposed to eating the offspring of a clone animal?

The thought of cloned steaks disgusts me!!!, But it's happening!! Be sure to read the package!

I will never eat a cloned meat as I feel it is against God's will.

Cloned steaks !!

birdlover1,

The question of legally being able to kill the snake to me was never in doubt. As I had said in the past I had done the same thing. The only thing I had ever questioned was the legallity of the method that was used if it was animal cruelity.

After finding the interview that he, Brent stated the method he used to kill the snake before taking the bites, I have no problem with. The key to the problem was that the shobby news reporting that allowed people to assume that the snake was alive during the bites. It was sad that a totally different news station had to find and learn the truth of what really occured. 

I still think it was a bit gross.

But I guess it would take something different to get the attention of CBS when many thousands want to be on the show.

Well it looks like there's not much to debate on the legality issue.  In addition to the exemption for  "the right to destroy venomous reptiles", the first line of pc599C (the exemptions for animal cruelty) says "No part of this title shall be construed as interfering with any of the laws of this state known as the "game laws,"  What does the CA fish and game code say about rattlesnakes? one mention.

7149.3. Notwithstanding Section 7149, a sport fishing license is not required for any resident to take any rattlesnake (genus Crotalus or Sistrurus).    What does "Take" mean?

86. "Take" means hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill.

That is the same term used for fish...remember the little wiggely things we slice up the belly while it trys to squirm out of our hands.  or should we take them to animal control first to have them humanely euthanized.

599c. No part of this title shall be construed as interfering with any of the laws of this state known as the "game laws," or any laws for or against the destruction of certain birds, nor must this title be construed as interfering with the right to destroy any venomous reptile, or any animal known as dangerous to life, limb, or property, or to interfere with the right to kill all animals used for food, or with properly conducted scientific experiments or investigations performed under the authority of the faculty of a regularly incorporated medical college or university of this state.

I guess I'll have to go find another bandwaggon to jump on.