Save the Gay Sheep by fowlnews on Blogster

.......surgically installing an estrogen device in rams in an effort to alter gay sheep’s sexual preferences.......

Do You Think The Reporter May Have Gotten This A Little Wry?

See PETA's Long Comment

http://blogs.planetout.com/out100/2006/11/martina_navrati.html

Martina Navratilova: Save the Gay Sheep

Yesterday, PETA distributed a letter from Out 100's Martina Navratilova, protesting experiments on gay sheep. "These experiments involve surgically installing an estrogen device in rams in an effort to alter gay sheep’s sexual preferences and using drugs to alter sex hormones in fetal sheep," the letter said.

The sheep research has been under way for a number of years, with interesting results.

"How can it be that, in the year 2006, a major university would host such homophobic and cruel experiments? Oregon State’s justifications offered to PETA, which can only be surmised as an attempt to develop a prenatal treatment for various sexual conditions, are nonsense," she wrote.

Actually, not so fast, Martina my lamb. It could also be surmised that the experiments are an attempt to learn what relation hormone-handling in the brain has to being gay. PETA's involvement makes sense—after all, researchers are cutting up sheep brains, and PETA generally opposes that sort of thing. Many other people find sheep unbearably tasty.

A few years back, sheep research from the Oregon Health and Science University was responsible for discovering enlarged parts of the hypothalmus in rams who have sex with rams, which also confirmed once-controversial human cadaver research by Simon LeVay. Effects of an enlarged hormone-handling preoptic nucleus is still unknown. Do hormones in prenatal development make ya gay? Or do genetics lead to one handling hormones differently? Hence, the research.

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Source: http://blogs.planetout.com/out100/2006/11/martina_navrati.html

3 comments on Save the Gay Sheep

uglyduck5150 said 1 years ago
hey wait a minute...this sounds alarmingly familier[COOL]
fowlnews said 1 years ago
Many things will begin to seem familiar alarmingly in the future.
carmelo said 1 years ago
Martina Navritilova has a historical perspective that many people who are younger than her lack. I'm 54 and am on her side in this discussion of federally funded research into MY hypothalamus. She grew up in a Communist bloc nation (Czechkoslovakia) and has toured the world and seen and learned a lot in her time.

I'm not an alarmist or a conspiracy nut. I don't think hobgoblins lurk in every shrub, waiting to leap out at me.

But no one has to take my word for what the federal government has done in the past, with taxpayers dollars, to U.S. citizens. Just do an online search on these topics: Tuskeegee syphilis experiment; CIA LSD experiments; CIA radiation experiments. No one who was tricked into taking part in this stuff were told what they were really getting. Some had no idea at all what was going on.

This time out, it's the animals who are being slaughtered. Next time, well, where's your guarantee that your own number won't get pulled out of the hat?

The feds need to stay out of bedrooms!