Okay, I've kept quiet long enough and there are no open threads so...
What the fuck is up with the CyClone dairy ads???!!! The first time I saw one I thought it was a joke. Then this morning I log into DK and see a mother cuddling a sweet cute baby telling me that the best milk in the world comes from a cloned cow...What. The. Fuck.
Today, cloning is more than a reality. It’s a promise for a more wholesome world. CyClone will be the first dairy brand to offer great-tasting products made exclusively from cloned cows.
See the ad posted on the daily kos home page, or check out cyclone dairy for yourself.
This has got to be one of the funniest websites ever. I laughed out loud every time I clicked a different tab.
Now, I'm not trying to alarm anyone today. CyClone's website goes to great lengths to ease my concerns
We’re fussy about our milk. That’s why we’re fussy about our clones.
Only a select few cows meet our high standards. Cloning lets us take those few, and turn them into many – for generation after generation of high-quality dairy! That’s what your family deserves.
Now, I'm pretty sure that CyClone dairy is a total farce brought to us by an anti-cloning faction, but why spend so much money on web ads like these? A Google search brings up blog after blog questioning their existence.
This excellent diary by skralyx questions the existence of CyClone dairy and urges the revelation of who is really behind it. I found this paragraph especially amusing:
Milk from cloned cows, let's just clarify, would be a horrific market failure. The website says that "We’re so proud that our milk comes from cloned cows, we say it right on the label." Guess how many people would want that product? Like, 3. Oh, and it would cost $500,000 a gallon, so that'd be another entry barrier. And there'd be nothing wrong with any of it - the public would have been informed clearly of what was inside and summarily rejected it.
So I guess what I am asking is: What the fuck is up with CyClone dairy? Why the big hoax? When will the great and powerful "CyClone Wizard" reveal himself? How did they become so well-funded?