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Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood
Kate Thompson writes "A week after San Francisco's Genetic Savings and Clone revealed the sale of their first cat to a customer, the Boston Phoenix reports that GS & C acknowledges it has been hired by anonymous buyers in Hollywood to bank genes of show business animals."
Seems breeding for specific roles is more likely to be productive then depending on genetics. If animals are anything like people, success often is followed by sloth.
You can clone the animal, but not the intensive training required for participation in show business.
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Does this say something for originality, and the fear of showbusiness people that their talent and success is all wrapped up on the abilities of one cat, dog, pig, britney, whatever?
they had to use a LOT of pigs, because they only look that cute for the first week or so of their lives.
And in what way precisely is cloning going to address this issue?
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Just because the cloned animal has exactly the same genes, doesn't mean that it will exhibit the same behaviour.
Seems ideal to study nature vs nurture.
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Scientifically, this could make for some interesting "nature vs. nurture" experiments.
Well, someone had to say it. But seriously...
I'm all for folks getting in on the cloning business. At the worst, it can't be more unethical than what many pet farms already are.
This provides a financial incentive to refine the technology and make the whole thing more acceptable and familiar to people. Animal breeding has fewer ethical restrictions than medical cloning, so there are fewer ethical roadblocks.
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Just wait until the dog from Fraiser out numbers normal Jack Russell terriers.
Given that a cloned animal is expected to have health problems and not live as long etc, I would pay less. Who cares that it doesnt have a spot in the exact same spot, Id rather have a healthy pet. People that want something that looks exactly the same may as well buy a stuffed animal, as they arent really buying the animal for the right reasons and would have to not care about its health etc.
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Since people started playing with DNA, it's obvious that people could start cloning things that belong to somebody else.
Can you claim copyright on your pet?
We've heard plenty about Intellectual Property (IP), but what about Physical Property (PP)?
What if somebody cloned you? What legal issues could arise from this?
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I recently saw a TV-program about cloning pets. Cloned cats doesn't get the same pattern on the fur as the original. Some of the clones doesn't even get close to the same colour on the fur. In showbiz, shouldn't that make the clone useless?
Apple built a platform for their ideas, Google built one for everyone's.
They should be spending their money on promoting the idea of saving sheltered and stray animals. We don't need more puppy mills. We need to save the ones that are going to get killed tomorrow because they shopped at the puppy mill today. Pure breeds with papers should be down played while saving the sheltered should be turned into a status symbol. Hollywood could fuel this change if they wern't such pompus assholes.
I have an idea, Lets clone Britney so we can put Madonna "down".
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
Are identical twins genetically EXACTLY the same?
Yes.
Nature vs Nurture --- a big argument though from my communication classes we determined that it is a combination of both.
"Nature vs Nurture" is *NOT* the same as testing identical DNA.
In the womb, every fetus is subjected to hormones and other chemical signals, which direct its' growth - this is clearly nature, but is significantly different from genetics. Even twins get different amounts, as they don't occupy the exact same position in the womb.
Testing on identical twins is a good way to study, but doesn't provide 100% conclusive proof one way or the other that a particular trait is determined solely by DNA.