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Re: Cloning - Good or bad?
Posted By: roach, on host 203.59.102.150
Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 21:04:18
In Reply To: Re: Cloning - Good or bad? posted by Sosiqui on Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 16:23:08:

> There's one area not often thought about where I think cloning could to tremendous good... conservation. Using this judiciously, we could be able to repopulate dangerously low-population species of animals and plants. Even better, we could perhaps reverse some of the more recent extinctions caused by humankind. I've heard of experiments of this kind looking into the re-creation of the quagga. I think that's quite an interesting concept, and although I don't know how it would work in reality, I believe it's worth looking into.
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> Sosi"seer of obscure sides of the issue"qui


It would be great if we could clone endangered, and recently extinct animals. (No Meat eating dinosaurs - I don't want a real life Jarrassic Park!:)

Cloning endangered species, even though would it would be great, where would we put them.
I mean one of the main reasons why they became extinct, was because humans came along and wiped out there environment/habitat - right?

So, if their environment is gone, they would end up either in a zoo, an animal reserve etc.
Thats good for us - we would have more entertainment - But its not exactly what I would want if I were an animal. To be locked up in a cage. Not fun.

R"I don't want to be cloned. There are too many roaches as it is now."oach