This later changed with the introduction of Medellin genetics which allowed people to understand a little better the complex process of breeding livestock for desirable traits. Today, there is a lot more technology that can help a breeder to breed the livestock, helping to bring up another question. The other question is how we can or should look into animal welfare while artificially breeding. This is not occurring in the case of the PSS gene in show pigs as the pigs are living with a disease that causes them many anxieties throughout their life, and even rougher in their last minutes. With the invention of the artificial insemination (AI) rod natural breeding was no longer required making it easier for people to get the boar they want to breed with the sow they want. Some other points of interest include superovulation which is allowed several embryos/ eggs from a single donor, more than they would usually produce. Some people have gone so far as to start cloning animals like Dolly the sheep who was the first animal to be cloned from an adult. (Sandøe, P., Christiansen, S., & Gamborg, C. n.d). The further ethical implications of ignoring genetic diseases such as PSS are quite large and hard to comprehend. There are many times that humans inadvertently breed a bad thing in with a good gene. The only problem with that is that they do nothing to fix the issue, and just
This later changed with the introduction of Medellin genetics which allowed people to understand a little better the complex process of breeding livestock for desirable traits. Today, there is a lot more technology that can help a breeder to breed the livestock, helping to bring up another question. The other question is how we can or should look into animal welfare while artificially breeding. This is not occurring in the case of the PSS gene in show pigs as the pigs are living with a disease that causes them many anxieties throughout their life, and even rougher in their last minutes. With the invention of the artificial insemination (AI) rod natural breeding was no longer required making it easier for people to get the boar they want to breed with the sow they want. Some other points of interest include superovulation which is allowed several embryos/ eggs from a single donor, more than they would usually produce. Some people have gone so far as to start cloning animals like Dolly the sheep who was the first animal to be cloned from an adult. (Sandøe, P., Christiansen, S., & Gamborg, C. n.d). The further ethical implications of ignoring genetic diseases such as PSS are quite large and hard to comprehend. There are many times that humans inadvertently breed a bad thing in with a good gene. The only problem with that is that they do nothing to fix the issue, and just