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Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year
Sockatume writes "According to an article published by the BBC, Chinese firm BGI has refined cloning procedures to the point where they can produce 500 pigs per year, performing two embryo implantations per day with a 70-80% success rate. Much of the operation is concerned with producing genetically-engineered animals for research. The biotech firm's other work includes million-individual-scale animal and plant genetic sequencing."
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We already have enough police officers. We don't need a clone factory.
I am fine with cloning. Now heck even for food. Meat is meat. Still I think it is cheaper to take a male pig and a female pig and just raise them the old way and get just as good results for cheaper.
If you have issues with cloning then you probably should have issues with identical twins.
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Reminds me the scene from the Star Wars were Obi wan Kanobi is visiting the clone breeding planet... So... Chinese scientist managed to get cloning at the industrial level, hope this is not too expensive. Does anybody know the name of this chinese firm? Can I send my salive and get a copy of myself in 9-10 months? How much that will cost?
Although it sounds cool, I can't help but being a little weirded out by the thought of the exact same pig being experimented on endlessly throughout time...
A little like the multiple Ripley clone scene from Alien Resurrection.
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Animals are good at farking. You won't beat that for efficiency.
Now, whether or not they should be eaten is another matter.
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Any studies with the effect of eating meat from a genetically-engineered pig ? I know it's for research but cloning pigs for eating could be a temporary solution for over population as everyone knows that the bigger the city the bigger the need for meat. Or you can think of people who need food. this cloning tech could be a solution. Not the best one but better than nothing
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The ability to clone (not specially genetic manipulation, but getting exact copies) should not be very dangerous. And we are doing some sort of it with bananas already, picking the best ones following certain criteria and cloning them. The problem, as with bananas, is that it will have the same vulnerabilities, if they become vulnerable to a particular strain of a disease and the industry becomes too dependant of the cloned ones instead of the "natural" ones.
In other news, cloning is fun to know how to do, but totally worthless because it has no valid applications.
You have cloning for food, but, why not just.. grow the meat on scaffolds to eat right then and there? Why clone or grow an entire animal, when you can just grow the meat and body parts you want to eat directly. Also, vegetables are better for people anyway, so why not just abandon meat eating entirely?
Then there's cloning for sexual gratification. The idea of cloning a women or man for sex, who has the form of another the person wants to fuck. Well, that's selfish and totally purposeless, because who cares what types of perceived pleasure a person is having in their mind? It has like no benefit to the outside world, and doesn't get anybody shit.
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"If it tastes good, you should sequence it"
Fast forward 100 years and all livestock is cloned into 'taste-families': you can define the general palette of tastes you enjoy, and they produce it.
OK, maybe only 30 years...
The next morning, there in the web, neatly woven, were the words SOME PIGS!
The only thing 'utterly stupid' is you. Nowhere does it say they are going to produce a million animals. It says, quite clearly, that they are going to sequence the genomes of a million animals (and a million plants, and a million people).
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The original pig for the cloning was hired by a man named Tyranus.
This is going to put the Kardashian family out of business.,
Have gnu, will travel.
Cool, trust the Chinese Generic diversity makes it harder for disease to take hold.
Cloning removes that barrier.
Re: if you lift your hands to heaven you will have bacon from 500 pigs...
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Just wait till they start cloning (160+ IQ) Jayne Mansfields as a tourist attraction to their cloned cities like Hallstatt.
Seastead this.
To me it's just the aspect that it is the whole animal that gives me an odd feeling. It's not at all a rational division/ Just the dividing line that crosses into something seeming odd to me.
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I can understand this being done in the pursuit of scientific research.
But as food? What the hell is wrong with letting pigs f$#k?
Eating cloned animals seems like it would have many completely unnecessary risks associated with it. The human body likes variety in its diet, moves towards homogenization of our food is not going to make us healthier.
I wouldn't mind having my own basement cloning labs to clone myself to harvest body parts off those clones and i could burn the rest of the shell. :p, i could even get a new brain implant and destroy my aging body!
If only we could save a brain's state and reload that saved state on another identical brain
Last time I heard, cloned pigs display same variety in response to various tests (drugs, sickness etc.) as sibling pigs does.
So they are not as similar as you might think. It takes a bit of the "dangers of cloning" out of the issue. I believe cloning
should be limited to areas such clinical research, because if you replace pigs everywhere with very limited genetic variance,
you're setting up a system that is rather vulnerable to diseases.