Is animal cloning better, worse, or the same as human cloning?

Regardless of how you feel on human cloning, should we continue to clone animals if there is scientific gain?

I am unconvinced there is a scientific gain from cloning. Just a means to an end.

Originally posted by Manu
Is animal cloning better, worse, or the same as human cloning?
It's bad enough we have to grow chickens and cows the way we do. I prefer death over cloning.
Regardless of how you feel on human cloning, should we continue to clone animals if there is scientific gain?
How we feel is more important. That is why God makes people and animals and doesn't leave it up to us to do it.

No, I am not being closed minded. :|

Only the might wolf and other predators should be cloned.:nice:

Originally posted by Unrepresented
Only the might wolf and other predators should be cloned.:nice:

Aha, I get it now! Cloning...weekly discussion. This explains the angry uterus avatar.

Originally posted by DngrMse
Aha, I get it now! Cloning...weekly discussion. This explains the angry uterus avatar.
LOL. Actually the angry uterus avatar preceded cloning. If anything DA's weekly ontopic disccusion owes me a royalty check.:|

I did a huge report on this in high school


What if there were a means to clone endangered species...


it's not natural selection, it's artificial selection (our influences) that is killing them off in the first place.....this way we would not have species go extinct

Originally posted by sea_lover
I am unconvinced there is a scientific gain from cloning. Just a means to an end.

i was taking a seminar class last semester and had to present a paper i read. The experiment was making pigs that were lacking a particular surface protein, by lacking this surface protein the organs of the pig could be theoretically harvested for organ donation. The way they were making these pigs was by cloning an embryo that had that surface protein gene knocked out.

You are saying it's a means to end, the product is of course the important part of any experiment and procedure, but that doesnt take away the scientific validity of the process. (does it work like that for other scientific procedure? the procedure isnt scientifically sound but the product it creates is? the whole process is the experiment, the science part, and the product is just the data and end result. I just mean to say the experiment AND the product are the scientific gain.)

btw, when it came to that experiment i read about, i think taking away ONE surface protein wouldnt be the end all to organ rejection, i mean it cant be that simple... can it?
[not to mention the problems that come from cloning itself...]