May 8 2008Mouse Coat Created, Raises Ethical Questions
The Museum of Modern Art in New York recently had this installation, "Victimless Leather", on display. It's a coat made out of mouse embryonic stem cells. However, after just a month the coat was too large to continue growing in its flask and had to be killed. Now the creator of the exhibit doesn't know know how to feel about it.
I've always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I'm here not sleeping at night about killing a coat...That thing was never alive before it was grown.
This is almost certainly going to open a whole new can of whoop-ass worms on the ethics and moral dilemmas associated with experiments and art of this nature. Perhaps the most important of which is, "It's totally straight to shrink ray your kids so they fit in little mouse coats, right?"
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Reader Comments
1. 12-Step - May 8, 2008 4:04 PM
I always knew that artists were getting more and more crazy over the decades but WTF is that supposed to be?!? What kind of a mind would even think about making a stem cell coat??? What possible purpose could that have????
2. Nailbomb Nanny - May 8, 2008 4:10 PM
LONG LIVE ACCIDENTAL TECHNOLOGY!!
Was it warm blooded?
If so, how large can they be grown and what's the average life expectancy?
3. butterbee - May 8, 2008 4:29 PM
I hope my stem cell pants can hold on till I get out of the office this evening.
4. Billy Avenue - May 8, 2008 4:30 PM
WTF do you feed the damn thing? dress shirts???!!!!!
5. flyingskeleton - May 8, 2008 4:53 PM
i have a pet rat. i wonder if it would fit her? if so, i want one!!
6. Meg - May 8, 2008 4:54 PM
Holy hell that is scary.
7. Jason - May 8, 2008 5:10 PM
This "artist" is right up there with.... "My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets."
8. Andie Spargo - May 8, 2008 5:34 PM
This is why the other animals don't want to play with us any more.
9. pickle - May 8, 2008 7:03 PM
dude obviously isn't getting any. who the f*** thinks up this whacked out shit? they should make him eat that coat, with a nice chianti and a side of fava beans.
10. dumbass - May 9, 2008 1:43 AM
f***ing liberals
11. Evan - May 9, 2008 4:26 AM
I think the concept is great.
12. j_major - May 9, 2008 7:48 AM
yikes!
some artists should be kept away from bio-science labs!
13. Scott - May 9, 2008 11:23 AM
Where was PETA with their thimbles full of paint when this was going on?
14. Cyberwulf - May 10, 2008 5:25 AM
PETA was off giving aweay money for lab made meat.
15. Phy - May 13, 2008 12:04 PM
I often like to lounge around all morning in my mousecoat.
16. p1mpu4lif3 - May 14, 2008 8:20 AM
duh.....