Some species don’t breed well in captivity. I know at one point they were having a hell of a time trying to increase the California condor population in captivity; not sure if that’s still going on or not. And some species, like pandas, just don’t seem to like fuckin’ all that much.
I don’t know why it is that artificial insemination doesn’t help with preserving those species, but whatever the reason is, I suppose it would apply equally well to cloning.
I believe the main hurdle is that its illegal to domesticate most species, so even if they did respond well, it wouldn’t work because they couldn’t be sold for meat.
We’re also far more comfortable with euthanizing animals with severe abnormalities than we are with euthanizing children with severe abnormalities.
Off topic a bit
Originally Posted by Lobohan
More likely they’re afraid that when cloned babies are normal and healthy, people will take it as evidence that the soul and god don’t exist.
We raised sheep and most of our ewes had twins ans one had triplets they are natural clones so anyone who eats lamb is eating cloned meat.
There was a time in history that people thought the tomato was poisonous.
Monavis
The paragraph below is shown in the linked article in the OP. I don’t know how accurate it is, but I wonder at skeptics willing to take cloned meat as good without much study of it. I will skip the clones until you guys have tried it out for a few years.
There are still animal rights and moral issues involved also. I know science is amoral but the rest of us are not.