Cons Of Animal Cloning

Suppose in the next 30-40 years children are no longer born naturally, but are cloned versions of their parents. Cloning- “the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals.” (Dictionary.reference.com). Cloning is a tested theory in modern sciences that is used to replicate living material such as animals and plants. This essay will focus mainly on cloning in animals and how it can benefit our future. Cloning can be used to create copies of animals to use organs for transplants, reconstruct damaged tissue in the body, and help farming. Cloning should be researched and used and not allow religion to intervene. Stem cells are an indefinite supply in the body however they can only be made so fast, but what if the

A few of the farmers that have this problem scenario might come across the solution of cloning their top breeds and keeping the strongest genetic traits going in the next generations. However scientists that clone the animals must work out all the flaws that come with cloning, such as physical abnormalities. A cloned sheep named “Dolly” was for some reason obese but geneticists were unaware of the reason and how it happened. The downside the animal cloning is that it is a hit or miss process, because it only has a 3 percent to 5 percent success rate.(Mitol 7). An experiment at a dairy farm consisted of a group of cloned cows and the test was to see how much milk the cows could produce each. The results from the test were; “An experimental dairy farm run by the biotech company Infigen in Wisconsin is producing milk by the gallons” (Mitol 2). The biologists noted that the these cloned cows produced significantly more milk than a normal cow and that production was able to be increased. This may have been just one example but it was a massive breakthrough in cow farming, for it could increase the supply of milk in America and along with that, it started to make the minds of biologists believe that they can replicate this experiment with other animals and increase production of their products that humans

“In 2007 28,356 American people received organ transplants and about 78 percent of the organs were from deceased people”. (Conger 2). “As of August 2008, more than 99,000 people from the United States were on the national waiting list for organs”. (Conger 2). Organ cloning is the construction of an artificial organ using a small sample from the human body to re enact the function of the part being replaced. Dr. Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and is able to create body organs by taking a sample of tissue from the body and keep the cells under testing and multiply them to synthesize a new body organ. Atala uses the process of electrospinning- a magnetized spinning wheel teases small biodegradable fibers into a loose thread like form and weaves them into the desired shape for the organ.(PopSci Future: Growing Organs). Scientists are able to synthesize body organs that can function properly as if nothing changed, the process takes time, however results prove to be