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Highly overrated??

I strongly disagree.

All humor aside, temporarily…

?I think the ramifications are huge and will certainly affect the future of breeding. ??That doesn’t mean I am against exploring the science of cloning, quite to the contrary.

However, I think the dangers of allowing clones into the registry should NOT be taken lightly.? The danger of Pandora’s box being, in this case, humankind controlling & manipulating the basic genetic material -that which is the life of the breed.? Like I said, exploring science is not wrong, but allowing it to permeate into the breeding pot without due consideration and the test of time is just plain against my common sense. ?JMO!

Clone away, just don’t pull the wool over our eyes while we study the details of the sands of eternity. ?

Oops, sorry ?

I came into this late on a Friday…it’s happy hour and maybe I need to drink a potion.

j

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alison Farrin
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:27 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] Shoot the Clones - NOT!

 

Its my belief that the danger of Pandora's box is highly overrated.  As yoiu can tell <G>

 

Alison A. Farrin

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jody Rogers-Buttram [mailto:dragnin100@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:22 PM
To: Alison Farrin; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] Shoot the Clones - NOT!

OK...Now the lid is off of Pandora's box. 

Alison Farrin <Alison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Based on what argument?
They are still horses. They are the exact genetic material that is registerable in the original. They are not the same animal - genetic _expression_ is affected by fetal development.

Regular horses differ in environment and training. This is not a valid argument not to accept clones for the same reason.
You said that cloned animal have serious health flaws. So do regular animals. We alleviate that by having lots of horses to experiment with and breed out or manage things like CID or HYPP. They only way to achieve that in cloned horses is too make the cost of creating them cheap enough to have lots of them to work out the problems.

Let there be light. The more knowledge we have, the more opportunity we have.
Every breed organization and equine sport should embrace cloning. Not doing so appears to me to be sticking one's head in the sand.


Alison A. Farrin




-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sky Ranch
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:27 PM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] Shoot the Clones


I am very happy that the Jockey Club (TB registry) and the AQHA both
prohibit registering clones. I don't know about the Arabian registry, but I
would assume they have the same regulations against cloning?

Cloned animals have serious health flaws (not just the obvious ethical
flaws!), and I doubt that the cloned horses will perform as well as their
"source." And of course, don't forget environment and training...

Every breed organization and equine sport should ban cloning. (I'm serious,
too.)

Carla Richardson
Colorado

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