May 19, 2008

Close Encounters of the Hamburger Kind


Cattle mutilations have long been one of those weird mysteries of Ufology. They are kind of like a dirty secret – they’re in your face, but like great uncle Harry’s peculiar toilet habits, we don’t like to talk about them.

There’s long been debate over whether they’re related to the UFO phenomenon at all, or are a phenomenon in their own right. And if they are indeed related to, are a byproduct of, or in fact are the raison d'être of our ET visitations, they’re damn peculiar.

We’ve long known that cattle are closely related to humans. It’s probably why whole corporations are built upon them, and why we spend so much time, money and effort grinding them up into uniform little patties that we sell wholesale. Just like humans (according to the cannibals we’ve interviewed), cows taste mighty fine. It has been posited that perhaps the reason for ET’s interest in cattle could be this close genetic relationship – rather than experiment on people (because people might notice a sudden decrease in population), that some of the more invasive or deleterious experimental work could be done on our bovine relatives.

Well, scoff at that idea at your peril. According to a report at the ABC Science site, http://tinyurl.com/5s4crs
, UK researchers have created embryos using human cells and the eggs of a cow. For what purpose is hard to define, since the researchers assure us that they are neither going to use the resultant hybrid embryos for any useful purpose, nor are they allowing any of the mutants to live past 14 days, ensuring that no horror-movie abominations survive to rampage through downtown London.

However it does throw another slant on the entire cattle mutilation scenario. What if it was genetic material (in bulk) that ET was needing all this time? What if cattle tissue, cells, eggs, sperm and blood is useful in the Human-ET cloning process? Are cattle the ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Butter’ component in the (supposed) ET-Human clone initiative? Or are cattle the ‘Hamburger Helper’ that ET requires to beef up (no pun intended) their human burgers? Oh dear. We’ll never be able to look at a cheeseburger in quite the same way again….

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