When Is Animal Cloning Wrong

I think cloning a deceased pet is a terrible idea because, it seems extremely disrespectful. To me it seems like you’re replacing your pet, and if you don’t mind replacing a pet with a genetic copy the original pet must not have met that much to you. If a beloved family member died would you create a copy of them? I know I wouldn’t. How would you feel if one day you die and are immediately replaced by a genetic copy of yourself. Doesn't that take away from who you are? Every human on earth is different from each other and creating an exact replica of any living thing makes it less like a living creature and more like something that can be mass produced in a factory. Everyone is special and I think cloning takes away from that. Another reason I’m against cloning recreationally (cloning for your enjoyment not to cure diseases and sniff out bombs and such) is if you have a younger child that’s dog dies and you decide to clone it, doesn’t that take away the perpetuity of death for this child? If someone close to this child dies and they think they can just replace them than the shock of that being untrue will be much worst than their grief over a deceased dog. To conclude my complicated opinion, when something/someone is dead leave it to rest! Horror movies have taught that messing with others lives (or deaths) only ends bad for you.

Secondly, cloning kills another animal. Cloning takes chromosomes from an egg and destroys them. That cell was going to be a new animal. Take Dolly it took 277 tries, that is 277 baby sheep killed to make another already existing sheep. If we were to clone humans any scientist who clones is technically a murderer. Other examples is the dog Snuppy they used 97 eggs to get 3 puppies. That means 97 individual puppies dead to make a clone’s clones. This is another, more grim, reason why cloning is not a good thing.

Cloning is very unethical. It would be violating the human rights in many ways. It would be violating of the freedom of beliefs and thoughts (Peter Flaherty, and D. Lynn Moore. Civics. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2000) Cloning also reduces human dignity. Humans can be sold as manufactured products. If we allow

The Cloning of Dogs Introduction: The new "Star Wars" movie features an entire army made of clones. These clones are genetically perfected to be the ultimately obedient and powerful soldiers. How could this type of cloning technology be used in dogs? We could use it for the good to make the perfectly

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

Jamison Piper English 111 14 December 2017 Animal Cloning Why did scientists keep animal cloning a secret for so long? Did the scientists know that animal cloning would cause controversies? Do the bans on animal cloning actually prevent scientists from advancing cloning technology? Did scientists think that their discovery would help or even hurt the food industry? Animal cloning could help the food industry as long as its negatives do not outweigh the positives.

Cloning is inhumane and unethical because it creates animals and embryos that will be used for painful research experiments. Additionally, a painful surgery is required to remove the eggs from the breeding stock and implant the embryos back into them. Also, a good deal of the animals that survive past infancy have abnormalities and health problems that include respiratory distress, brain lesions, metabolic problems, skeletal malfunctions, and

Scientist haven’t successfully cloned a human. What sense does it make, to waste money and time on something that isn’t going to be cloned. Yes, most animals are successfully cloned but why clone if you aren’t getting what you want out of it. In the article “Here Kitty-Kitty-Kitty” Magnus says “The people who want this are spending huge sums of money to get their pet immortalized or to guarantee they’re getting

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.

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.

Cloning doesn’t always work either. Even if the chances are decreased, the chance of your cloned pet to die sooner are there, as well as the chance for birth defects. Then, would you be willing to go through the pain of another death, or even willing to pay for what it takes for the birth defects? I wouldn’t take the chance. Anyways, I wouldn’t use my money, even if I had plenty of it, to do such a thing. Instead of bringing another animal into this world, I would adopt. It’s helping another animal, and eventually you’d form bonds just as strong with that animal as you had with your deceased pet. On a different note, I wouldn’t want a pet like my old one; if I could I would take my old pet back from the grave, but despite how it may seem, cloning only makes an animal similar your old one. They would look the same, but may act completely different. There was once a bull named Chance; he was extremely docile animal. When Chance died, his owners got him cloned. The clone, dubbed Second Chance, was nothing similar in personality to Chance. Upon two different occasions Second Chance actually attacked his owners, almost killing the man.

A. According to Kathleen R. Brooks and Jayson L. Lusk (2011) Animal cloning is a process in which scientists can copy the genetic or inherited traits of an animal.

Cloning is a controversial topic because new areas of science often raise questions about safety. Early experiment performed on animals showed potential dangers. For example, cloned cows developed faulty immune systems. In some studies, cloned animals seemed to grow old faster and die younger than normal members of the species. According to Encarta online

There are also many negative aspects of cloning. To create different organs or limbs in order to help a person to live longer or more comfortably seems to go against nature. The way human life should be created is through sexual intercourse. Harmond Varmus, a schoolteacher, said it best; “Human cloning represents a grave attack on the dignity of conception and on the right an unrepeatable, unpredetermined set of genes.” To clone an animal is almost the same thing. We are playing with the way humans and animals have reproduced for years. Is it fair that we clone and then kill an animal just for its organs in order to save a person’s life? Scientists are not even sure that the animal’s organs will be compatible with the human body. According to the Medical Research

Many Americans do not understand how risky it will be to clone a human, not to mention how hard it is to clone an animal. Many news article and publications offer this information to the public, because many scientists will not address the media with the real facts. In an article titled, “Creator of cloned sheep, Dolly, says he wouldn’t want to make copies of humans”, Dr. Wilmut stresses that only 1-5% of those embryos used in cloning result in live animals, and survivors are plagued with obesity, kidney problems and other troubles, and even Dolly is suffering from arthritis (1). Most cloned animals, like cows, pigs, goats, sheep, die during embryonic development, and others are stillborn with monstrous abnormalities. Bloated mothers have laborious miscarriages, and occasionally die themselves. The clones usually struggle for air in intensive care units, only to have to be euthanized, the process of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, according to an MSNBC article titled, “Much confusion over cloning” (1). The risks and uncertainties associated with the current technological state of cloning are the basis for why