Gabriel Mayorquin

Olga Moskvina
Writing 39C
10/23/2014
Animal Cloning in America
Scientist have been intrigued in the idea of cloning since the process of A-sexual
reproduction has been explored more into depth. Scientist have used this idea of A-sexual
reproduction in the animal kingdom to develop their own method of A-sexual reproduction
which is known as cloning. Since the past century scientist have been performing several lab test
in hopes of developing a perfect method that will deliver mammal clones every times its
performed. Unfortunately, this has not been the case and several animals have been sacrificed in
the process of this early research. Animal cloning experiments have been recorded since the
1850s and it wasnt until July 5th 1996 that the first successful clone was birthed. The first
successful clone that managed to live a normal life span and later on to successfully reproduce
was a sheep by the name of Dolly. Before Dollys birth there several mammal clones had been
developed but they were born with crazy syndromes, undeveloped limbs, and painful mutations.
The truth is that cloning is a very risky process that possess a success rate of about only 3
percent. United sates being a capitalist country has allowed experiments in cloning to continue in
all parts of America in order to better their market. These experiments have raised concerns all
over the world because of its inhumane being.
In 2008 the FDA allowed cloned meat to be sold in the in the market. This released the risk
assessment that states that there was no potential risk in the consumption of meat or dairy that

came from a cloned animal. The test that were performed in order to come to this conclusion
were not as sophisticated as they should have been. The FDA focused its attention on whether
the meat that was coming from cloned animals contained the right amount of nutrients to be sold
in the market. There has been several uncertainties that have been raised by this Risk
Assessment. In the article, The USFDA and animal cloning: Risk and regulatory approach by
larisa Rudenko states that there are three uncertainties that were brought up by the CVM, there
might have been a statistical manipulation when the data was being retrieved, there might be a
confusion in what caused an abnormality in the cloned animal and whether or not the use of a
new method of cloning might bring new problems into the consumption of cloned animal meat.
(202). Statistics is often manipulated to favor a certain party, which is what makes this
uncertainty a very strong one. Animal cloning is a very spontaneous type of research that often
time does not deliver a constant result in its data. In this occasion the FDA might have not
perform enough experiments to a get an accurate set of statistics and therefore allowing cloning
to be legal. The second uncertainty has come to surface because perhaps researchers have failed
to diagnose a clones cause of abnormality. Cloning are known for being born with mutations and
abnormalities but it is hard to find out what actually caused these problems also making it hard to
find a way to fix these spontaneous issues. The third uncertainty present the dilemma that
perhaps the method that the farmers use in the modern day may not be as healthy as perhaps a
new method that rise up in the future. The truth is scientist dont know enough about cloning for
them to give an approval for it. It is obviously still a developing research that still needs a lot of
work to perfect and should not be allowed until more is known about this practice.

Many welfarest who are against animal cruelty are also against animal cloning due to the harm
that it cause to these animals in the process. Not only does the parent clone have to endure pain
but if the offspring clone is successful in its development it will often times used for harmful
research project in order find cures for diseases. In order to develop a clone a surgery must be
used to remove the donor animals eggs and then another surgical technique used to implant the
embryos into the surrogate.(332) If the clone is successful the parent usual has to undergo a Csection delivery must be perform since most clones exhibit a large birth rate which causes pain
and suffering to surrogate the animal.(332). The current methods that are present for animal
cloning are extremely in efficient and only have a success rate of 1 to 2% (Fiester, 331) which
is a very slim margin that results in the death of thousands of clones every year. Animal cruelty
is something that is present 100 percent of the time during a cloning experiment the animals that
go the least amount of sufferings is the miscarriages. Most clones are born with painful defects
or later on die from heart, lung or liver failure which can be very painful. Farmers dont care for
these animals and are treated as object more than animals. Cloning is known to be a very risky
practice that causes a great amount of harm on animals yet the government hasnt done anything
in the favor of the animals.
Cloning cannot only be harmful to animals but it can be harmful to humans. Humans have
become more intrigued in finding a method that has a 100% success rate. If scientist found this
type of technology for what purpose may it be used? The idea of human cloning has been around
as much as the idea of animal cloning. Of course the American population strongly disagrees in
human cloning but this is what it is ultimately leading to. If this type of technology get in the
wrong hands it can be very damaging to the world. There is simply not enough evidence to
provide that something catastrophic cannot occur if we clone humans. Animal cloning is a very

strong and alive political problem that exits today. This debate is not going to come into an end
until there is a new law that will favor the majority of the population. There is still not enough
research at this moment to continue to allow cloning.

Work Cited
Rudenko, Larisa, and John C. Matheson. "The US FDA and animal cloning: risk and regulatory
approach." Theriogenology 67.1 (2007): 198-206.

Fiester, Autumn. "Ethical issues in animal cloning." Perspectives in biology and medicine 48.3
(2005): 328-343.