What do monkeys and sheep have in common? They’ve both been unnaturally reproduced via cloning. Wow!

Politicians and “analysts” will have their typical reactions to stories that involve cloning; some of them saying “What the bloody earth, this is such an outrage and undermines the very concepts that constitute life”, and others saying “Oh goody, this is probably a good thing, and shows why science education is so important and merits a tax increase.”

To either stereotypical reaction, I have nothing to offer except a long and inflated yawn. Politicians don’t do the actual cloning; rather, it is the cloners who do the cloning. Since cloners can be more interesting than politicians, let’s talk to one of them instead.

So what will be cloned next? Humans? Laptop computers? Cars? Maybe food? Yeah, maybe food.

Meet Sigmund. He is a cook at a franchise Mexican fast food restaurant in the frontier village of Boston, Massachusetts. He wishes to become a cloner, so he is quite fascinated by the concept of cloning. So, accordingly, I am quite fascinated to have an opportunity to interview him about his fascination about this fascinating topic.

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