For those who won't click through, here's the main bit: a couple of billionaires and a polo rider have created a stable of cloned broodmares (literal) from a prized polo playing mare so they can make 5 figures auctioning off the babies. This is the part wired is implicitly calling "civilized" btw

You could make all sorts of arguments about how industrial animal husbandry and selecting for desirable traits is similarly creepy, but something about this strikes me as more depraved than those. (Tbf I'm not a vegetarian or a vegan so maybe it's just that I don't like polo)