Top 10 Reasons Not to Clone Your Pet
10. Companies that want to clone your pet will prey on your emotions. People form close relationships with their pets, and pet cloning companies use those bonds to exploit customers. They give customers false hopes of recreating a lost loved one or extending the life of a pal.
9. Pet cloning is a commercial venture. As the purpose is reproductive and not therapeutic, it is not a great source of valuable scientific knowledge, as pet cloning companies allege.
8. Companies that will clone your pet cannot guarantee the clone will resemble the original animal in personality or physical traits.
7. Pet cloning companies are not required to report on their practices. Thus, it is unknown what happens to animals after they are used for experimentation. This includes animals used as surrogates and those produced by the cloning process but not meeting the specifications of the customer.
6. The USDA does not regulate practices of companies that will clone your pet. These companies are not obligated to follow the Animal Welfare Act in treatment of animals used in experimental research and the cloning process.
5. Pet cloning research and the cloning process cause immense suffering in animals. Surrogates must undergo painful hormone treatments and invasive surgery to implant embryos.
4. There is an extremely high failure rate associated with pet cloning, which increases the instances of animal suffering. Many clones are born with diseases or defects and die soon after birth.
3. As of yet, no cloned animal has survived an entire lifespan. Experts are still unsure as to what health problems will develop in these animals later in life. Veterinarians, then, may be unprepared to care for them when problems do arise.
2. When society decides that cloning animals is acceptable, a slippery slope forms toward cloning humans.
1. Each year, between four and six million animals are euthanized for lack of a home. Instead of creating a new animal, please consider adopting one that desperately needs a home.
9. Pet cloning is a commercial venture. As the purpose is reproductive and not therapeutic, it is not a great source of valuable scientific knowledge, as pet cloning companies allege.
8. Companies that will clone your pet cannot guarantee the clone will resemble the original animal in personality or physical traits.
7. Pet cloning companies are not required to report on their practices. Thus, it is unknown what happens to animals after they are used for experimentation. This includes animals used as surrogates and those produced by the cloning process but not meeting the specifications of the customer.
6. The USDA does not regulate practices of companies that will clone your pet. These companies are not obligated to follow the Animal Welfare Act in treatment of animals used in experimental research and the cloning process.
5. Pet cloning research and the cloning process cause immense suffering in animals. Surrogates must undergo painful hormone treatments and invasive surgery to implant embryos.
4. There is an extremely high failure rate associated with pet cloning, which increases the instances of animal suffering. Many clones are born with diseases or defects and die soon after birth.
3. As of yet, no cloned animal has survived an entire lifespan. Experts are still unsure as to what health problems will develop in these animals later in life. Veterinarians, then, may be unprepared to care for them when problems do arise.
2. When society decides that cloning animals is acceptable, a slippery slope forms toward cloning humans.
1. Each year, between four and six million animals are euthanized for lack of a home. Instead of creating a new animal, please consider adopting one that desperately needs a home.
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