[ScottAnfield]

I agree with mkirkpatrick, I am a resident of England and I am opposed to this hybridation of human-animal, even for research purposes. Firstly, who would want themselves to be an actual blood relation to an animal? Secondly, I'm positive that we have enough technology in this period of time to crate a synthetic man i.e. a computer program that replicates the human defense system against illnesses that affect us. Why isn't more research being funded into this, then animal testing would stop as well. You just can't extrapolate from animal (or hum-animal) to human. Finally, we shouldn't be messing around with our own DNA or that of any other species. It's what makes individual species unique. If those people who are pushing this forward want it so bad, then why not let them use the most efficient method for treating human illnesses... test the humans who want it so badly.