generichaxor Posted:

cloning for economic purposes is a great idea

and it increases our world’s biodiversity, which is good

My idea with the cloning for testing is that it saves an animal from being removed from nature. By putting an identical animal in its place and releasing the originally back into the wild, we get a test subject, and don’t upset the populations of test subjects

eg. a rabbit that we test something on

if i get a spare rabbit, then i dont have to kill the test rabbit

if i have no spare, then i just killed a rabbit

Most test subjects aren’t in any sort of danger, biologically speaking, so the whole “we now have one less rabbit.” argument doesn’t really matter. We got the phrase “breeds like rabbits” from somewhere, after all.

I would say ethical treatment takes precedence over population.