15/4/2018
A certain American actress came up with an idea that she could have her dog cloned. She loved her dog Samantha very much, so she wished to have her again. And she thinks that, by cloning her, she got her back. When the truth is she got its clone. Not her dog, but a clone. If we put the science aspect aside, there are enough arguments to state, I will use an euphemism, what is done is – unacceptable. Why?
There are over 400 registered dog breeds in the world today. There is at least as much unregistered breeds alongside mongrels. All together this makes over 520 million domestic dogs in the world. Statistics show that only in USA there is 75 million dogs. Other countries do not fall far behind. There is 35 million dogs in Brazil. In Russia, Japan, Philippines – over 10 million. In many European countries between 5 and 10 million domestic dogs. There is over 110 million dogs in China, but we all know why.
When you take these data into concern, that also include huge numbers of abandoned and starved dogs as well... there is no room for such "ingeniousness" as cloning a domestic dog.
The problem is that this kind of news is placed as a positive one. Many find it cute and sweet, as the matter of fact is that is far away from nature and its rules. As data show, the price of cloning a dog is between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars. Not only that the procedure in itself is bad, but it is made into business and publicity.
Therefore, this is a switch of thesis. If the person in concern thinks of herself as an animal lover and one that respects the nature, than the money spent should have better been used to help minimise alarming data on domestic dogs in the world. She could have adopted any dog, contribute to sterilization and castration causes, or simply not do anything at all. It would have been better.