Everyone has watched either a movie or a television show that at some point they put a person or animal into a machine and it makes a clone of them. Cloning humans is illegal to do as of now, but cloning animals is happening all over the world. Everyone has different opinions about cloning animals. In the future cloning animals could help us have enough diary and meat products and could keep the prices down on animal products and it could also save rare wildlife that are almost extinct.
The discovery of the possibility of cloning something goes back to the late 1800s. The first recorded cloned animal was in 1996 and it was a cloned sheep named Dolly. Since the success of the cloned sheep, Dolly, scientist have cloned many other animals …show more content…
When the United States started to ship cloned produce to different countries they would place a label on it telling the customer it came from a cloned animal. The European countries at first would not accept the cloned animal produce from the United States. When they started to accept the product they used the labels to tell the customers that it came from a cloned animal and it hurt their sales on animal produce because people did not trust it. Now that they do not need the labeling of cloned on the produce sales are back to normal and people know it is safe for people to consume the cloned produce. (Romig, 2011) (Kaplan, 2008) Scientist are not just making cloned animals to get produce out of them, but also to help save rare wild species. The Brazilian researchers are going with this process to help fight the decline of several animal species around them. They have collected hundreds of samples from native species. These Brazilian scientist are not the first to try this method to help try and save rare animals. The other scientist have been trying for decades to clone these animals and started off with a low success rate, but now is slowly starting to increase. (Barchfield, …show more content…
The Brazilian scientist said that they plan on putting these cloned animals in zoos so that they know they will be safe and not endangered. An animal that they are trying to clone is the maned wolf. They say that the wolf is classified as near threatened on the list of threatened species. (Barchfield, 2012) Brazil is not the only country to start cloning rare animals. In Srinagar, India cloned a rare Himalayan goat. These goats’ soft silky undercoats are used to make cashmere. The scientist said they hope to keep the process of cloning these goats rolling since they are rare and it will help them keep the cost of importing cashmere from other countries. (Hussain, 2012) Scientist are not just trying to clone animals that are alive, but now they are going to try and make a clone from the last passenger pigeon that died in her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. The nonprofit Long Now Foundation has a project to try and make the clone. They plan on taking DNA fragments from a preserved passenger pigeon and using band-tailed pigeons as the parents. The Long Now Foundation hopes to complete this within the next decade with the amount of money and technology being directed to this challenge. (McGrain,
The discovery of the possibility of cloning something goes back to the late 1800s. The first recorded cloned animal was in 1996 and it was a cloned sheep named Dolly. Since the success of the cloned sheep, Dolly, scientist have cloned many other animals …show more content…
When the United States started to ship cloned produce to different countries they would place a label on it telling the customer it came from a cloned animal. The European countries at first would not accept the cloned animal produce from the United States. When they started to accept the product they used the labels to tell the customers that it came from a cloned animal and it hurt their sales on animal produce because people did not trust it. Now that they do not need the labeling of cloned on the produce sales are back to normal and people know it is safe for people to consume the cloned produce. (Romig, 2011) (Kaplan, 2008) Scientist are not just making cloned animals to get produce out of them, but also to help save rare wild species. The Brazilian researchers are going with this process to help fight the decline of several animal species around them. They have collected hundreds of samples from native species. These Brazilian scientist are not the first to try this method to help try and save rare animals. The other scientist have been trying for decades to clone these animals and started off with a low success rate, but now is slowly starting to increase. (Barchfield, …show more content…
The Brazilian scientist said that they plan on putting these cloned animals in zoos so that they know they will be safe and not endangered. An animal that they are trying to clone is the maned wolf. They say that the wolf is classified as near threatened on the list of threatened species. (Barchfield, 2012) Brazil is not the only country to start cloning rare animals. In Srinagar, India cloned a rare Himalayan goat. These goats’ soft silky undercoats are used to make cashmere. The scientist said they hope to keep the process of cloning these goats rolling since they are rare and it will help them keep the cost of importing cashmere from other countries. (Hussain, 2012) Scientist are not just trying to clone animals that are alive, but now they are going to try and make a clone from the last passenger pigeon that died in her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. The nonprofit Long Now Foundation has a project to try and make the clone. They plan on taking DNA fragments from a preserved passenger pigeon and using band-tailed pigeons as the parents. The Long Now Foundation hopes to complete this within the next decade with the amount of money and technology being directed to this challenge. (McGrain,