Is Animal Cloning Beneficial

Cloning can have positive and negative impacts, but there is no way of knowing how it will turn out since it has not been studied enough. Cloning has been performed on various species of animals, and so far there have been far more deaths than successful clonings. It may seem like a good idea to many but people need to understand that it does not only take one time to clone an individual. There are trial and error to make every clone. Cloning could be ethical to our society but as seen in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the outcome could drastically be different from expected, and the result can backfire in many ways.

With the development of science, cloning has become possible. Some cloning has been used to help benefit the human race; in some ways the environment and other species. However, other cloning uses could cause many problems such as a disadvantage in intelligence, strength, and who would be acceptable to obtain what jobs.

     As soon as you mention the word cloning, you are most likely to ignite a debate. This is because people are greatly divided on whether it's good or bad. A way to reach a conclusion is to look at cloning from ethical, risk, and religious perspectives. The reality is, cloning is unethical, very risky, and irreligious. The arguments I will make will hopefully convince you that cloning is not good for the future.

There are some people that have been very anxious with cloning because they believe it is something new, but in reality it was introduced in the 1950s. It started with cloning food and has moved onto cloning animals. It has been successful on many different cases and a famous one is the cloning of a sheep named Dolly. Dolly lived to be six and a half years old and she had six kids. People believe that cloning should be illegal but we believe that scientists should clone endangered or extinct species in order to preserve them, here’s why.

It seems to be as if cloning is the new topic society can not stop talking about. Some people do not know what it is or they confuse the difference between the different type of cloning. There are two types of cloning therapeutic and reproductive cloning and there is a big difference between the both. Reproductive cloning is cloning a whole new organism while therapeutic cloning focuses on cloning an organ such as a heart, a kidney, a liver, and so on. Cloning of a body part is extremely helpful and essential to the survival of the human race. Cloning body parts also known as therapeutic cloning is the key to live a longer happy life because this procedure creates vital organs that can help people from suffering, it prevents other diseases, and it is much safer than reproductive cloning.

There are many arguments against cloning. Leon R. Kass bases his argument on repugnance in his article The Wisdom of Repugnance. He is a well-known physician, educator and scientist. Kass perceives cloning as offensive, grotesque revolting, repulsive and wrong. To establish his argument he states, “Most people recoil from the prospect of mass production or human being, with large clones of look-alikes, compromised in their individuality.”1 His rationale is cloning is unnatural, because it is asexual and requires only one parent. Kass believes that cloning turns natural procreation into a manufactured process, which is not natural or moral. In his essay he also points out that cloning will also change the way we see ourselves through our

Should people not be allowed to clone animals? Some people see cloning animals as bad, but some people see cloning as a good thing. Cloning should not be illegal because it has great future effects in daily life, saving endangered species, and scientist can use them as test subjects.

Although human and animal cloning could help lead to many medical and scientific advancements, many people believe it is immoral and that it could result in many problems not only concerning ethics. Cloning is the procedure which results in a second organism with the

One of the benefits of cloning crops is there would be a large supply of food to feed humans and animals. In the article “Cloning: The Pros and Cons,” by Dilruba Peya she discusses the benefits and disadvantages of cloning. Dilruba Peya says, “Cloning provides more

After the excessive amount of unsuccessful attempts at producing a surviving clone, the controversy of cloning heightened. The topic of cloning has faced ethical issues since it was proposed, but after certain information on the creation of clones was released the ethical matter of cloning was put more up to questioning. Cloning involves the production of genetically identical copies of living organisms, a production that could easily have a negative effect on the human population just as well as it could help keep many others alive. There are three different types of cloning: DNA cloning or gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic cloning, each one used for a different reason. All three types could benefit the population in a short

Some of these reasons are for scientific reasons, and some are for profit. Many animals are cloned solely for research reasons. Study of diseases and genes are some of the most common subjects to research when clones are involved. One of the many uses is to be able to have identical animals in order to study diseases (Smith 291). Scientists often use animals to study the effects of diseases, but with identical animals, the studies can be much more thorough. Having a control and a test animal with the exact same DNA may answer to if certain symptoms are due to one specific animal, or if it occurs only because of the disease. This is possible because having the exact same DNA means that the test and control groups have fewer genetic factors that may affect the study. Another purpose for the cloning of animals is to save endangered species, specifically cattle species. While according to Smith, some are dying off due to low interest in the market, others are dying off for other reasons. It is stated that tissue samples from those species should be taken and stored for possible future use (921). While it is important to save endangered species, this seems pointless if the only species we have the ability to clone are farm animals. What of all the other species that are at critically endangered? It is unlikely that scientists are going to risk the few remaining specimens of these creatures on the slim change that they will be able to successfully clone them. Other scientists are attempting to use gene altering techniques to give cloned animals certain features that are not normally present in these species. One such example of this is goats with the ability to produce spider silk protein in their milk. A company in Montreal successfully cloned two male goats with the gene, and bred them with normal females, who should produce milk with the protein. The

Human cloning is a highly controversial and divisive topic, so most people either feel strongly for or against it. There are many common misconceptions about cloning, such as the idea that when someone is cloned, the clone appears exactly like the subject. This is not the case; cloning is done by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized egg and then transferred to a woman’s uterus to be carried out like a normal pregnancy. The only thing that the original human being and the clone would share is DNA. The clone could grow up to be a completely different person as the original human being, simply inside a body that looks the same. Therefore, it is not as if cloning could be used to create an army of clones of a single person like Hitler. However, human cloning is still morally wrong for many reasons.

Imagine having a herd of cattle, hogs, sheep or goats and every single animal in the herd is the exact same, not only looks but their genes too. Well, in the future that may be the case in a lot of larger farm production lots through animal cloning. While there are many people against animal cloning, there is actually no harm done to the animals involved in the clone. (FDA US food and drug administration) Cloning in agriculture should be allowed because it would improve the farmers herds.

Cloning at first thought may seem like a phenomenal idea for various reasons. Cloning can eradicate organ shortage and as a result can increase the current human life span. Another example could be that finding cures for deadly illnesses can be much more successful with a controlled number of human clones testing the possible remedies and treatments. Under a scientific light, it is exactly that, a phenomenal concept that can change science, as we know it. Unfortunately, this is not the only light to see this concept under. Cloning can be misused and abused as everything else in this world is, but I feel the end results of abusing such a thing is too critical for this to be something I can agree with.

What exactly is wrong with human cloning? Cloning is the method or processes that can be used to produce genetically identical organisms or creation of identical copies. The cloned organisms are the same as their original. There are two main types of cloning the one is therapeutic and second is reproductive cloning. The standard kind of cloning is reproductive cloning; it is an asexual means of reproduction by which genetically identical copies of organisms created. Many plants can do naturally reproductive cloning. Also, now scientists can artificially recreate the reproductive technique in animals and even human. Therapeutic cloning is the production of embryonic stem cell for use in repairing damaged organs. Therapeutic cloning achieved by transferring a diploid nucleus from a body cell into an egg and egg nucleus removed.