The Pros And Cons Of Cloning Animals

Pet cloning is our future and our present. Though it doesn't make it right. Cloning for instance, cost thousands. Not only expensive, it puts the carrier animal severe pain. It also gives the clone a higher risk of getting diseases. Just ask Dolly the sheep, if she didn’t die at a young age. Cloning may seem like a good thing but over all it is not for many reasons.

There have been recent studies on animals where the scientist cloned the animals. Cloning is something many people are split on. Some say it is bad some say it is good. I think cloning is a bad thing. Cloning can be a bad thing in many ways. I will be covering some of those ways in this paper.

We should clone endangered and extinct animals because they can help cure diseases that we don’t know how to do today or that we don't have the ability to do today. It is a good idea to clone animals because

Animal cloning started without the world even knowing. First, an animal clone is “an exact physical copy of one ‘parent’” (Newman 12). “Animal cloning experiments began in the 1960’s. Frogs were the first subjects. By 1987 scientists had begun cloning cows and other mammals” (Newman 12). Dolly the sheep was the first big cloning success, credited to Ian Wilmut in 1996 (Praded 21). This sheep was a scientific breakthrough, but it also caused many people to question the intents of scientists. Many people wondered if scientists would clone humans next. The original intent of animal cloning was not for the food industry. The reason animal cloning started was to find a way to help cure currently untreatable diseases (“Why Do Scientists Clone?”). By cloning cells, scientists will be able to manipulate the cells to become something new.

The topic of cloning has brought much debate in science and also in society. Many

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

Today’s technology develops so quickly that many impossible things become true; the example is cloning technology. Cloning is a process used to create an exact copy of a mammal by using the complete genetic material of a regular body cell. Different from the common propagate, cloning needs only one cell and without sex. Cloning, as of recent years, has become a very controversial issue in society but cloning can have several positive effects for the well being of society. Many people in society believe that scientists should develop a clone human but many people and especially the government are against human cloning. Hundreds of

A genetically engineered animal is one that contains altered genetic material to give the animal new traits or characteristics. There are many animals that have been genetically modified for example, mice, pigs, cows and sheep are just a few of the animals they experiment on. Most genetic engineering is directed toward providing more benefits to our society which can be ethically contentious. In reproductive cloning (animal cloning) researchers remove a mature skin cell from the animal that they want to copy then, they transfer it into a egg that has removed its DNA-containing nucleus. The clones are superior breeding animals that will produce healthier offspring. There is both upsides and downsides to genetic engineering and animal cloning. In the United States animal cloning is regulated by the FDA or, Food and Drug Administration and for the most part is not considered to be illegal. There are also close to no laws regulating genetic engineering in animals in the United States.

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.

For the longest time, in our history and modern times, people have thought of animals as friends and even sometimes sacred beings. Cloning would allow you to keep your friend back from the dead as a new being. The article states that certain labs are using cloning to help bring back endangered species, as well. This is important because there are many animal species that are endangered, soon

Animal cloning is a problem that many of us unknowingly approve of every day. Hundreds of innocent animals are dying and suffering due to animal cloning experiments.

In order to solve this issue of animal cloning for scientific and personal reasons people must be aware of the costs and results. Many people do not know the more in depth information about this topic and if more people did research and saw that animal cloning is wrong and should not be seen as beneficial then it would just add to the growing number of people against it. There are countless websites and organizations against the issue with lots of facts and ways to spread the word. One website wrote, “Just because we can doesn’t mean we should” (endanimalcloning.org). That simple quote is very powerful and has a lot of meaning to it. Just because we can do something does not mean that we should, there are plenty of things in this world we have the power to do, but the consequences of the actions stop us from doing it.

A better knowledge of these impacts can be obtained by discussing the good and bad of animal cloning. One application of the cloning technique is by cloning genetically modified animals, so that their cells and organs can be transplanted into humans. Thousands of patients die as a result of the unavailability of human organs for transplantations and this cloning technique could potentially be a solution within the medical

Most of us are ignorant on what’s happening around us, we are so focused on technology that we are not aware how our environment changed, besides the fact of it getting destroyed because of the irresponsibility of men. Animal Cloning is a sensitive topic because the way we live is at stake, our health is at stake. This topic will enlighten us on how cloning can help us in terms of food production and animal conservation. Studying cloning can give us ideas on how some movies came up with cloning concept. Some thinks that animal cloning is necessary for us, but not human cloning, that is beyond immoral. Advances in animal cloning has been made, scientists are planning to do more. Animal cloning can help preserve the endangered species by cross breeding. Some things can and cannot be done. It can be said that cloning is still in its developmental stage, with the continuous study and research, efficiency and effectiveness in cloning can be created for best result. Cloning needs to have an ongoing assessment and modeling of the technology where its is best suited. Some will not be realized until in the

Scientific experimentation has led us to many great discoveries such as: Chemotherapy, heart surgery, and bone marrow transplants. Recently scientists have discovered a new way to heal humans. This is known as cloning. Although they have yet to clone a human they have cloned sheep. Cloning has brought up a huge controversy among the American people. There are two sides to the story. Either you agree with cloning or you don’t. The only way to help make that decision is to look at the good and bad points of cloning.