From Andrish St Clare
Reading Stephen Day’s cover story “Invasion of the shapechangers” (28 October), I was very much reminded of Stephano the drunken butler in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, when he stumbled across the monster that spoke from both its ends.
What indeed can be made of a mouse that has the spine of a primordial jawless fish?
Perhaps I could suggest a more user-friendly direction which might put some meat on the bare hones of this line of research: namely, why not try to genetically regress a sheep to taste like a lobster – a meat that is far older and more expensive than that of mammals?
This would not only improve the health of many a mutton eater and lessen overfishing, but may also ease the burden of Australia’s foreign debt, by exporting this transgenic cuisine to that Brave New World that hath such wonderful creatures in it.
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