The Promise of Human Cloning

The Promise of Human Cloning

Cloning opens many doors of opportunities in the agricultural aspect of

the United States of America. It has already been a major factor in saving the

lives of many humans. I feel the society as a whole can not and should not

degrade this scientifical finding. I feel that human cloning should not be done

and that this subject raises too many ethical questions. I would like to focus

on an agricultural aspect if I may. People raised hell when animal parts were

put into humans to save lives and today it is an accepted part of medicinal

science. I feel that cloning in an agricultural and medicinal aspect will

become the same as transplanted animal parts. It will go through much debate,

but ten years from now it will be accepted scientifically, socially, and morally.

In an article in Newsweek called A Cloned Chop, Anyone? They take a somewhat

neutral, but also somewhat negative viewpoint of cloning in an agricultural and

medicinal sense. They admit some good aspects of this genetic engineering, but

they still seem pessimistic of the future of cloning in animals excluding humans.

The first thing the article states is the Wall Street opportunities for

the biotech field. Instead of phone calls from eager investors only phone calls

from reporters were coming in asking about this market. I feel that now would

be a great time to invest in biotechnical companies specializing in agricultural

and medicinal cloning. This article says nothing about the great potentials of

long term investment. Long term investment especially in the medicinal field is

incredibly profitable. Just as in other controversial investing opportunities I

feel that investors will find they could have made a lot of money if they

invested in this area. Ten to fifteen years from now this agricultural cloning

will be a commonly routine thing and price wars will begin for the products

produced by them which means many great investment opportunities will be

available. But one must remember that Wall Street is extremely short term

investing so this is a good explanation for not many investors being interested

in this because it is still many years before tangible and profitable products

are made from cloning.

The article goes on to say the Scottish scientists have a lot of good

ideas, but they seem to be only a sci-fi adventure. Once again I disagree.

Scottish scientists are trying to help the human race, not be lucrative mad

scientists looking for another way to manipulate the human race. The following

are some things that have already been done with genetic engineering and they

are helpful to us, the human race. They plan on genetically engineering cows

that produce altered milk formulas for premature infants. This is great I do

not know how anyone can go against this because if their infant's life were on

the line they would do everything in their power to save their child's life.

Also they are genetically engineering animal organs to be more similar to those

of humans. So just like we have been trying to do we can take organs from

animals and successfully transplant them into humans. Again this will save many

lives of people with terminal diseases that can be saved by organ transplant.

Cloning is referred in the genetics area as transgenics. Some companies

have been altering genes of animals with genes of humans to produce proteins

needed to fight cancer and other diseases. Cloning