Monday, October 20, 2003

R ~
It was great talking to you last night! It's amazing to think that your motorcycle broke down somewhere in the south of India enabling us to speak as if you were right in the next room. I'm glad to know you're safe and well. What an adventure!

I heard the oddest piece of news on the radio - actually a rather extensive story about it - cloning beef cattle for meat. It seems they're already doing it and the FDA hasn't gotten involved until now because when they were queried about it by the original entrepreneur of the idea, they said it was a subject that was completely off their radar and therefore not something they were going to worry about. Is it safe? Who knows! The breeder who received the clones was concerned about immune disorders, etc., but found the cattle were healthier than most of his other stock. It stunned me that so complex a thing as cloning cattle could be talked about so nonchalantly by farmers, newscasters, the FDA, as if there was no connection between those cows and us. As if ingesting the non-natural things was the most normal thing in the world. Sheesh!

Pookie is recovering from his seizures owing to the change in food, although rather more slowly than I would like. I've learned also what keeps the cats attacking the bedding at night. They bring their toy mice up there and bury them in the quilts. Then dive after them. Sascha kept me up the whole night with the racket of it. Oddly, I'm not tired about it today. Nothing makes me happier than seeing them both at play. They are such cats! The essence of cats!

Also, tho' you are far distant from it, I'm marvelling at the world of blogging and how incredible it is. Love, ~ K

posted by: rjon | October 20, 2003 22:16 | comments