RE: Re: Cuban cows

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> >I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
> >partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The
intent
> >is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.

Louis writes:
> Lysenko? What does he have to do with cloning? Leaving aside the merits of
such an experiment, a far less smirking article appears in today's WSJ:<

"less smirking"? with all the puns about "sheepish" and the like?

Lysenko is relevant, as I've been informed by a friend who's an expert on
Soviet agriculture, because Lysenko became popular since he proposed a quick
technical solution to a serious political-economic problem. Cuban's problems
are completely different than those of the Stalin-era USSR, but there are
similarities. Should any country's president really be micro-managing
agricultural technology? Of course, Castro is being swept up in the
world-wide cloning (and anti-cloning) fad. He's not alone.
JD