Essay On Cloning Animals

Is cloning animals ethical?

Cloning animals is ethical, cloned animals live healthy and happy lives. Cloned animals live slightly shorter lives. Should cloned animals be cloned for meat? So what are clones? Clones are exact genetic copies of a DNA donor. Clones look exactly like the DNA donors.

Cloned animals have small health problems. Clones have larger organs than normal animals. Which can lead to breathing problems. Many clones die young. The first clone, Dolly the Sheep died of water in her lungs. This is not always the case for cloned animals. Many clones live healthy lives without lung and health problems.

Cloned animals don’t always live long but should the meat of clones be eaten. “Meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats, and their offspring, is as safe to eat as meat from non-cloned animals,” says the Federal Drug Administration. If the meat is healthy why not eat it. Well, more than fifty-percent of people in the United States of America. I know that if I needed to eat cloned meat I would. I would also eat the dairy and milk from cloned animals.

So cloned meat is a healthy source of meat but do cloned animals live healthy lives? Yes, cloned animals live healthy lives despite having larger organs than usual. Clones are born from surrogate mothers. That means the DNA is inserted into a

different mother which is a little strange. The births are healthy for both the mother and the many children. Birth is the most important part of a clone's life.
What are the problems of cloning?

Cloning has a very and I mean very low percentage of success. “The success rate ranges from 0.1 percent to 3 percent, which means that for every 1000 tries,” says the Genetics Department at Utah University. Think about it this way, for every 1,000 attempts at cloning an animal 1 to 30 clones are made. The first clone, Dolly the Sheep took more than two-hundred and fifty tries. Dolly the Sheep was not technically the first clone on July 5th 1996 but was the first to reach adult hood, the first clone was actually created in the Nineteen-Fifties, they were tadpoles that did not turn into

frogs.
How many animals have been cloned? Twenty-animals different species have been cloned. Most of the twenty have mammals. Many subspecies of cattle have been cloned in the United States of America. This is incredible, in the Spring of 1999 a group of Spanish biologist cloned an extinct animal name Celia the Pyrenean ibex. Celia sadly passed away after only 7 minutes of life. The scientists were able to take samples of blood. In fact Celia’s body is on display in Spain. This brought hope to the scientific community that bringing extinct animals back to life is possible. In fact, many efforts have been exerted to bring back the life of a baby Wooly Mammoth. The Mammoth was found buried in ice in Russia.
Is cloning animals healthy, ethical, safe, interesting, you tell me?