“Animal welfare” activists crazed, quite evidently, by self-importance and the viewing of far too many horror films, are taking aim at pet-cloning, something that would be bad news for companies like the marvelously-named Genetic Savings and Clone, and for those who (however misguidedly) believe that Kitty really can have nine lives. How do I know that this is an example of busybodies run wild?

By this:

“The group has also been working with a California lawmaker to introduce state legislation that would ban the sale of cloned or genetically engineered pets.”

The intervention of a ‘California lawmaker’ is almost always the sign of a really, really dumb idea.