Infigen commercializes cloning and other technologies for application in health care and agriculture. We want people to feel and touch these animals, to get to know them as ordinary creatures. Gene's genetic makeup is considered inferior to ABS's other bulls. There will be millions of people to see him. This is the best way for us to promote this kind of agricultural technology.
Education goes to the heart of the zoo's philosophy regarding the farm exhibit.
It's an agriculture display, and one of the stories we will be talking about is biogenetic engineering and cloning. In planning the exhibit, the zoo chose not simply to present a slice of farm history but instead gave it a specific theme - a look at the past, present and future of agriculture. Which begs the question of Minnesota's farm heritage and raises an interesting point about the state's transformation. Today it's under 2 percent. So there's a real need for people to understand agriculture, especially today with the technological changes taking place, biogenetic engineering and genetic modification of crops and cloning.