Additionally, cloning can be seen by opponents as useless. Shanks, in the article “Pet Cloning” says, “Cloning does nothing to improve their environment; it adds no genetic diversity; it requires many surrogates and egg donors, who may be harmed; and it may distract from lower tech but more practical conservation measures”. Opponents will claim that because cloning does not add genetic diversity, it is useless. They claim that it does not improve the environment. In spite of the previous claim, cloning does improve the environment. According to “Cloning”, cloning could be used as a substitute for selective breeding. Selective breeding, which is breeding animals with desirable characteristics to produce offspring with those characteristics, …show more content…
The website “Why Clone?” tells a list of uses. It states, how cloning “could help reduce the time needed to make a transgenic animal model”, which are animals that are genetically engineered to “carry disease-causing mutations in their genes”. “Why Clone?” also adds, “Some researchers are looking at cloning as a way to create stem cells that are genetically identical to an …show more content…
And stem cells cloned from someone with a disease could be grown in culture and studied to help researchers understand the disease and develop treatments”. These medical purposes are the reason that cloning can be considered useful. With this use, cloning can further help develop scientists understanding of medicine and stem cells. To further prove the point, “[Cloning] could avoid the issue of the genetic reshuffling that happens during sexual reproduction and simply clone our drug-producing cow” (“Why Clone?”). Cloning, to make it more ethical, could instead be used to clone the cow rather than mess with the reproductive systems of animals. This could be used to increase the amount of drug reproduction for medical purposes as well, which also rejects the claim that cloning is not useful. In addition to medical purposes, “Why Clone?” states, “[scientist] want to use [cloned] animals as breeding stock”. This, like all the other points also backs-up the evidence that cloning is useful. Likewise, with a larger amount of breeding stock, they can provide more food. Therefore, cloning, in spite of opponents’ claims, can be used for multiple