Half and Half

The UK government is shortly to vote on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. This would, if passed, allow scientists to create half-human, half-animal cybrids.

How cool would that be? We could cross humans with fish (fishes?) to create people who could breathe underwater through gills, feed off krill and plankton and release some of the population pressure on the land surface of the planet. No more worries about global warming inundating the cities - just live under the sea!


Or we could cross humans with horses to create people that could eat and digest grass. Cut out all the time and effort of beef production. Forget about raising and killing cows for food. That would keep even the vegans happy!


Or if you just love the taste of steak, at least you could give the creature a fighting chance. I'm astonished nobody has thought of this before!



Or if it's just sport you're after, why not have a human-lion hybrid that's just as interested in hunting you down for lunch?


There's also human-goat hybrids (I'm starting to wonder how people got these ideas in the first place).


The possibilities are endless. We could probly even cross a sleazebag with a rug to create a slug. No, wait. That's been done.


Whatever next? I suppose we could even cross humans with trees...