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Dog Cloned in South Korea
Thursday, August 04, 2005 
Terry
Please. I don't care how much you love your dog. Don't even think about it:BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | S Korea unveils first dog clone: "the media interest is likely to attract pet owners keen to re-create their much loved pets."Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University, South Korea, told the BBC, "[Dog clones] could be very valuable in finding technologies useful for curing human diseases. This is our main research call." Tell me how. Be specific. Why are we doing this? I'm not saying that you're wrong, I just want a hell of a lot more details. I'd rather we (meaning human beings) not do this kind of thing just because we can. Furthermore, the BBC quotes the Phil Buckley, spokesman for the Kennel Club:
"Canine cloning runs contrary to the Kennel Club's objective 'To promote in every way the general improvement of dogs'. Cloning cannot be used to make improvements because the technique simply produces genetic replicas of existing dogs.Is this really the Kennel Club's objective? Does that not seem utterly obnoxious to anybody else? Does this not imply that humans can actually improve another species of animal? To be fair, what the story doesn't include is the rest of the Kennel Club objectives, which is far more complete, and makes the statement seem more reasonable:
This objective to be achieved through:I'll stop now. What do you all have to say? Anything? Cloning dogs? Why? Tell me. I want to know.
- Ensuring that the Kennel Club is the first port of call on all canine matters.
- Recognising the importance of canine health and welfare. Popularising canine activities focusing on the retention of existing customers and the attraction of new.
- Achieving a widening of the Kennel Club membership base. Encouraging the development of all those concerned with dogs through education and training.
- Encouraging more people to provide input into the Kennel Club?s decision making process.
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At August 04, 2005 12:38 PM, said “I think it show's the sad state of humanity that on one hand we have figured out a way to create life. But on the other, the general public isn't smart enough to realize that the cloned "Fifi" can't be exactly the same as the original.”
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