Ethical Question on Cloning and use of Stem Cells?

Question

Will farms world wide eventually equipped with cloning facility's for prize animals, that way u could breed the prize animals with other prize animals further down the line, also it would u give you the ability to sell that prized animal as a clone. could u see cloning technology getting cheaper allowing farmers access to that technology? maybe in 20 yr to 80 yrs?

Animals based stems cells, now if understand anything but stem cells you grow a specific part of the body but not the body itself. now imagine if you could grow areas of a cow or pig for food without killing the animal, you could also grow different types of fur for fur coats with this stem cell technology without hunting a animal for it. it would save a life so consciously it would benefit animals and humans.

Answer 1

I suspect you are right, but these changes will not be driven by ethical considerations (most of us consider it to be ethical to raise and slaughter animals for human consumption).  Instead the changes will be driven by economics.   Cloning will result in more uniform, more reliable, more controllable product - all good things when you are running a factory - which for all intents and purposes is what modern livestock operations are (hard to call them 'farms').

Down the road, if it is possible to grow meat  without growing the animal, I am sure these factories will.  Not to improve their ethics so much, but to improve their bottom line.  Livestock is expensive to feed, expensive to transport, expensive to deal with waste, and produces a lot of waste in the rendering process.  "Leaning out" the production process is always a good thing.  So if the technology eventually permits that, that's what will happen.

Answer 2

These are fine ideas that may become reality.



Cloning animals could become much cheaper and more available, allowing farms to use cloned animals. The thing is that it is very unlikely that it will be cheaper than usual breeding, at least in the near future.

About "growing" meat for use, it is also possible but will take more time, as the research about stem cells for creating organs is still under development.

Again, these ideas are both futuristic and realistic.