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[–] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's wrong with animal cloning?

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that's not really politics, it's about his personal council of cloned dogs. Argentinians do not realize how fucked they are going to get.

[–] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it’s about his personal council of cloned dogs

Is that a metaphor or are we talking about actual dogs?

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He apparently had his dogs cloned (or so he said on the record for a book)

[–] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

(or so he said on the record for a book)

that would be a strange thing to lie about

[–] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

and they form a council? Is he going to appoint them to cabinet positions?

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nothing inherently. Nature even does it sometimes, although it's rare with larger complex organisms.

The problems with cloning arise when it happens in bulk. Instead of a single creature with a genetic abnormality or vulnerability to disease, you now have a whole population with those weaknesses. Look up monocultures or monocropping to read some horror stories. True cloning of e.g. livestock could take those issues to the extreme.

[–] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Look up monocultures or monocropping to read some horror stories

I understand the related concern.