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I personally do not like the idea of cloning. I know it can have advantages, but IMO its just something that will end up falling into the wrong hands and someday, some thing very, very bad will result.

I was just reading the latest blog entry on Fugly Horse of the Day and it only makes me dislike cloning even more. I was watchng Animal Planet last week and they had a show about people who were getting their deceased pets cloned by a company in Korea. Puts a bad taste in my mouth....

What do you all think? Not just of cloning in the horse industry, but how the procedure is being used on a wider scale?
 
#36 ·
You might be right about that Bubba. Charmayne doesn't race Clayton, she says he is in training but they haven't used him, he's a breeder only at this point.
 
#44 ·
Bubba13 thank you for the interesting clarification on cloning.

It's not just genetics that would make a great horse, its also situational, environmental and depends on its training.

Scampers clones cannot be registered, but what if breed organizations decide to go ahead and accept clones for registrations, I wonder if that will cause an increase of horse cloning for the sake of money?

As Sierrams1123 posted there is a reason we get sick and pass on. But I have to admit, I don't know what I would've done 11 years ago when my father was dying of liver cancer. What if I was presented with a cloning method to save him.....? Boy that's a TOUGH call.

I may be going to the extreme - but what if cloning was an available scientific technology back when Hitler was in reign? This is what I mean about it falling into the wrong hands.


Creeps me out. Just gives me the willies. Just seems so wrong to mess with Mother Nature.....
 
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but what if cloning was an available scientific technology back when Hitler was in reign?QUOTE]

Now that is an interesting question, but how long does it take for a clone to grow? A lifetime? 18 years? The war didn't last long enough for Hitler to make a huge impact in the world of cloning if cloneing had been available. That is an interesting point though. I mean any country could be building up an army of clones without another country being aware of it. Kind of like the Star Wars Attack of the Clones.
 
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One could create more clones from one person, or animal, at a time than is safe for a natural birth and the general population.

Would a human clone be capable of emotion or would they be mindless drones? I'm wondering because an animal's mind is different from that of a human beings, mainly in the intellectual ability. Would cloning recreate that ability?
 
#49 ·
One could create more clones from one person, or animal, at a time than is safe for a natural birth and the general population.
So long as we're using surrogate mothers for cloning--as we are and will be for the foreseeable future--this really isn't true. You're as limited by available, fertile females as natural reproduction is. And it's still FAR from foolproof, in that it frequently takes multiple attempts and even years of efforts to clone a single individual (when it comes to animals like dogs, horses, and presumably humans). Cost-prohibitive, too. I wouldn't worry about the clone apocalypse just yet, at any rate....

Would a human clone be capable of emotion or would they be mindless drones?
Of course they would! Are identical twins regular people? Are the kids resulting from in vitro fertilization normal? This is really a similar thing so far as the individual is concerned.

I'm wondering because an animal's mind is different from that of a human beings, mainly in the intellectual ability. Would cloning recreate that ability?
It's really not. Humans have a more developed cortex, leading to greater reasoning ability, and so on and so forth. But the brain and nervous system function identically....in all animals, differing only in structure and varying complexity in different regions.
 
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