Cons Of Animal Cloning
The meat you’re eating could’ve come from an animal that was tortured and traumatized its whole life through the process of animal cloning. Animal cloning is one of the most controversial issues addressed in today’s society. There have been extensive studies and research done on animal cloning and its effects. The more research conducted, the more curiosity, causing competition between scientists to achieve the ultimate result of perfecting the animal cloning science. The beneficial effects of animal cloning are scarce, while the extensive damages done to all animals in these experiments are horrendous and inhumane. Animal cloning, although popular today, is a relatively new idea. When the idea first came about nearly 50 years ago, people
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NYLN said:
A lot of clamor has been going on in the United States against mass production of meat by cramping animals in cages and other cruel means. One way that scientists say will solve this problem is by cloning muscle and flesh samples of animals and growing them in laboratories. This takes the animals out of the equation. And because only good quality meat will be cloned, such process can ensure the public that they will be eating healthier, safer meat in the near future. (“Cloning Animals”)
Admittedly, this sounds like a good enough reason, ethically and scientifically, to consider animal cloning, but the problem with this is that there will be a substantial lack of biodiversity in the world. Biodiversity is the diversity of life on this planet. Cloning inhibits animals that aren’t normal producers of food from thriving. The Center for Food Safety says, “Over 90 percent of U.S. dairy cows are Holsteins; eight of the fifteen breeds of swine raised in the U.S. in the middle of the twentieth century no longer exist; only five breeds make up nearly the entire U.S. poultry flock, and almost all white eggs come from one variety of chicken” (“Center for Food Safety”). Without biodiversity on earth species will slowly begin to die and become extinct. This would be harmful to science and humanity rather than furthering science and that is the overall goal of animal
NYLN said:
A lot of clamor has been going on in the United States against mass production of meat by cramping animals in cages and other cruel means. One way that scientists say will solve this problem is by cloning muscle and flesh samples of animals and growing them in laboratories. This takes the animals out of the equation. And because only good quality meat will be cloned, such process can ensure the public that they will be eating healthier, safer meat in the near future. (“Cloning Animals”)
Admittedly, this sounds like a good enough reason, ethically and scientifically, to consider animal cloning, but the problem with this is that there will be a substantial lack of biodiversity in the world. Biodiversity is the diversity of life on this planet. Cloning inhibits animals that aren’t normal producers of food from thriving. The Center for Food Safety says, “Over 90 percent of U.S. dairy cows are Holsteins; eight of the fifteen breeds of swine raised in the U.S. in the middle of the twentieth century no longer exist; only five breeds make up nearly the entire U.S. poultry flock, and almost all white eggs come from one variety of chicken” (“Center for Food Safety”). Without biodiversity on earth species will slowly begin to die and become extinct. This would be harmful to science and humanity rather than furthering science and that is the overall goal of animal