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View Poll Results: Would You Clone Your Pet? | |||
Yes | 10 | 26.32% | |
No | 26 | 68.42% | |
Undecided | 2 | 5.26% | |
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04-16-2004, 11:22 AM | #1 |
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| Cloning There's a lot of controversy over the issue of cloning. Right across the bay from me, they are already cloning cats: Marin County Company Prepares to Clone Cats Five die-hard cat owners are lined up to get their beloved pets cloned by a Sausalito company. The firm is called Genetic Savings and Clone, and charges $50,000 for the service. The company says their technology is efficient and effective in producing healthy cloned cats. The process is legal, but it's still drawing controversy. However, the company says it can't and won't ever try to clone humans. "Not only is the process we use to clone cats and dogs not available to clone humans, we had to sign a legal document saying we would not use it for that purpose," said Lou Hawthorne, CEO of Genetic Savings and Clone. The company plans to produce nine cloned kittens by November. Scientists are still trying to perfect the process of dog cloning. I'm just curious: If pricing wasn't an issue, would you clone your pet? If no, why not? |
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04-16-2004, 12:53 PM | #2 |
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| Not for me I don't know, even if you have the perfect Yorkie, there's something somewhat "unfair" about cloning them. It just seems like the memory of the first Yorkie would be tainted somehow, and that you'd constantly be comparing them to the original. I see it as going to a new restaurant for the very first time, ordering a meal, loving it, and then only ordering the exact same meal every time you go back to the same restaurant. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's a whole world out there of different experiences, and sometimes you have to mix things up in order to be pleasantly surprised. But that's just me. |
04-16-2004, 02:16 PM | #3 | |
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04-16-2004, 06:01 PM | #4 |
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| I voted "no," also. Part of the fun of raising a pet is finding out about its personality, guessing how big he/she is going to grow, finding out what makes them happy and what they don't like. No one wants three kids with the exact same traits. The same should hold true for pets. |
04-16-2004, 08:34 PM | #5 |
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| I agree. Although it would be HIGHLY tempting (we sort of do "prepare" ourselves for one day losing Yoda) to clone, it just wouldn't be the same. And you would expect the new clone to be the exact same as the first one, which is of course impossible (besides perhaps looks). Living conditions, bonding time, how they grow up will of course not be the same. I think it's the same as humans, usually if you are for cloning humans, you are for cloning pets. At least that's how I look at it... I'd say it's 'playing God' just a bit too much. This did make me think of another poll though. |
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