GSC will host a media briefing on "The Ethics
of Pet Cloning" via teleconference on Wednesday , February 16 at 11 a." Each briefing will include a
question-and-answer period.

Whole Foods Market to Donate More Than $550 000 to Seed Creation of Animal Compassion Foundation

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Little Gizmo
was born in Austin, Texas, where GSC has done most of its cloning research and
development. PST. Interested
parties can learn more on the company web site at http://www.
The Animal Compassion Foundation will be based in Austin, Texas and will
operate as an independent, non-profit organization with its own board of
directors.

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One
company client received her cloned kitten in December; the others will receive
theirs within the next few months."
To support Whole Foods Market's efforts to launch the Animal Compassion
Foundation and make a difference in farm animal welfare, several animal
welfare, animal protection, and animal rights organizations signed a statement
of support, including: Animal Rights International, Animal Welfare Institute,
Animal Place, Animal Protection Institute , Association of Vets for Animal
Rights, Bay Area Vegetarians, Christian Vegetarian Association, Compassion
Over Killing, Doris Day Animal League, East Bay Animal Advocates, Farm
Sanctuary, Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, Mercy for Animals, Northwest in Defense of Animals,
Vegan Outreach, and Viva!USA.

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The mission of the foundation is to provide education and research
services to assist and inspire ranchers and meat producers around the world to
achieve a higher standard of animal welfare excellence while still maintaining
economic viability. The Whole
Foods Market motto, "Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet"(TM) captures the
company's mission to find success in customer satisfaction and wellness,
employee excellence and happiness, enhanced shareholder value, community
support and environmental improvement.

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, Dan, a 40-something investment
counselor from Southern California, became the second paying client to receive
a pet clone when Genetic Savings + Clone (GSC) officials delivered a kitten to
his door on Tuesday, February 8.
"Launching the Animal Compassion Foundation marks a major endeavor in
Whole Foods Market's twenty -five years as an innovator," said Margaret
Wittenberg, chair of the Animal Compassion Foundation and vice president of
governmental and public affairs for Whole Foods Market.

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"With our second commercial cat clone delivery, we have
again duplicated an exceptional pet, and made a certain client very, very
happy.

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About Whole Foods Market(R):
Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas , Whole Foods Market
(http://www. In fiscal
year 2004, the company had sales of $3.

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"As an animal lover and dog owner, the welfare of animals is very
important to me," Dr.

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Company policy is to counsel clients that, because behavior is influenced
by environment as well as by genes, clones may not behave exactly as their
genetic donors did.
Phil Damiani, Ph., GSC's new Chief Scientific Officer , describes Little
Gizmo as yet another example of the excellent results the company is achieving
with chromatin transfer (CT), the technology GSC has exclusively licensed for
use in pet cloning . Thanks
to the customers of Whole Foods Market, we will be able to make a real change
in the way animals are raised and brought to market," said Anne Malleau,
executive director of the Animal Compassion Foundation.9 billion and currently has more than
165 stores in the United States, Canada , and the United Kingdom.

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Damiani worked at several leading cloning
companies, coordinating research on cows, pigs, dogs, cats, and endangered
species, including the Gaur, an endangered relative of the ox, which he cloned
in 2000.
"At this time, no one place exists for ranchers and meat producers who are
interested in animal compassion to share information.com

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"She is exact, exact, exact in all of her mannerisms, habits, traits and
personality," Dan wrote of Little Gizmo's similarity to Gizmo. In
addition to commercial cat cloning, GSC is intensively researching dog
cloning, and expects to produce the first cloned dog in 2005. "The creation of the
Animal Compassion Foundation will encourage change among producers interested
in animal compassion now, and it will ideally motivate the industry as a whole
to adopt more humane practices in the future .

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"There are no words to describe how happy I am," Dan wrote in an email to
Hodnett after spending time with Little Gizmo. Damiani said.

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" The increased efficiency of
the CT process is one reason that GSC today announced a reduced price of
$32,000 for the cat cloning service.

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Dan, who requested that his last name be withheld for privacy, was among
the first five people to sign up for GSC's cat cloning service, which became
available in February 2005 on a limited basis at the price of $50,000. Damiani received his doctorate in
Reproductive Physiology from the University of Massachusetts, and has
published numerous publications, patents and patents pending. Company Celebrates Beginning of 25th Anniversary Year By Contributing Five
Percent of Day's Purchases to Create a Non-Profit Fund Aimed at More Humane
Farm Animal Treatment

AUSTIN, Texas, Whole Foods Market(R)
(Nasdaq: WFMI), the world's leading natural and organic foods supermarket
founded in 1980, announced today it will donate more than $550,000 as seed
money toward the creation of the new Animal Compassion Foundation.

This category is about the issues involved in using animals for:
Drug and other testing
Education (including dissection)
Research
Animal Rights and Animal Welfare positions are both in evidence.

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We 'll dedicate our efforts to bringing the importance of animals'
welfare to the same level of expectation the industry has for food safety,
quality and taste. Whole Foods Market, Harry's Farmers
Market (R), and Fresh + Wild(R) are trademarks owned by Whole Foods Market IP,
LP.

Most sites subscribe to one of the following:
Total and immediate banning of all animal use
The Three R's: Refinement , Reduction, Replacement
PR sites to gain public support for animal testing

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Nonetheless, both of the clients who have now received
clones say that not only do they look like their predecessors , but their
behavior is strikingly similar as well."
The Animal Compassion Foundation will allow ranchers and producers the
opportunity to visit and learn from others who are innovating animal husbandry
techniques to create the ideal environments and conditions to support every
animal's physical needs, natural behaviors and well-being.

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CT is more advanced than NT, the method used to produce
Dolly and most other clones. The
company kicked off the foundation on Tuesday by holding its first global "five
percent day," meaning five percent of all customer purchases at the
166 locations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom will be
allocated to create the foundation.org . Whole Foods Market employs more than 32,000 team members and has been
ranked for eight consecutive years as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work
for" in America by Fortune magazine.

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The company 's business headquarters is located in Sausalito,
California.
"Not only has chromatin transfer helped us produce healthy, normal cats,"
Dr. Damiani also worked in South Africa establishing a gene bank and
assisted reproduction laboratory for wild animals, and helped establish the
cloning program at the Audubon Nature Institute's Center for Research of
Endangered Species (AICRES).

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Every cat produced by GSC except CC, the world's
first cat clone, is the result of the CT process.com or
by calling 888-833-6063.
More information about the Animal Compassion Foundation is available at
http://www.com ) is the world's leading natural and organic foods
supermarket and America's first national certified organic grocer.

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We will create a
network for the global exchange of humane animal husbandry techniques. "Just as Whole Foods
Market played an important role in the creation of organic standards, we will
work with meat producers to raise the bar in treating farm animals with more
compassion .

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Damiani said, "but it has also increased our efficiency, which means we
require fewer mothers than we would otherwise.animalcompassionfoundation.lowery@wholefoods.

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Latest Cat Cloning Client Has 'Happiest Day of My Life'

Dr.
GSC turns five years old today, having opened on Valentine's Day, 2000 .

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GSC Cuts Price, Announces New Chief Scientist

SAUSALITO, Calif. "Little Gizmo" is a clone of Gizmo, his
mixed breed Siamese who died at age 13 in March 2004.
"Valentine 's Day is a special day for GSC, because our business is all
about the love between people and their exceptional pets," said Lou Hawthorne,
GSC CEO, who delivered Little Gizmo with Mike Hodnett, the company's VP of
Sales + Marketing.
Before joining GSC, Dr.savingsandclone.

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"GSC's excellent standards of animal care,
combined with the expertise of its scientists, made joining the company an
easy choice for me."
Animal welfare is among the ethical issues the company regularly addresses
in its public communications.
This will be followed immediately by a second media briefing teleconference on
"The Science of Pet Cloning. Interested journalists should contact GSC for
more information at 888-833-6063.wholefoodsmarket.

Contacts:
Amy Hopfensperger Kate Lowery
512-485-3600 ext.