It’s Not Okay to Give Away Genetically Modified Things on Kickstarter
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Oh, were you thinking of giving away manually mutated organisms to your donors? Well, you can’t. Not any more, anyway. You could have before July 31st, but apparently someone at Trask Industries got to the higher-ups at Kickstarter. Because a project designed to create and give away glowing trees has ruined it for the rest of us and triggered an anti-mutant bill that will serve as a sentinel of crowdfunding oversight.
It’s possible they were just afraid that glowing = nuclear (hey, The Simpsons has raised a generation to think that way). But there goes any chance at a real-life Flaming Carrot.
And I’ll have to use my own money now to try and breed green kittens that turn into Battle Cats when you point a sword at them. Stupid glow trees…
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist