Last week on our website, you saw the news story from the Baltimore Sun about the woman, Bernann McKinney, who cloned her dog, Booger, to the tune of $50,000. One doesn’t even know where to begin to comment on the ethics here: resource allocation, health risks to the animals, and the clear misconceptions of the owner that she is “getting Booger back” by cloning him.
To read more, check out Wired’s piece, which goes into greater depth than I can stand…it’s just too much.
Summer Johnson, PhD