Yes? No? Maybe?
For me it all depends on what we are talking about. Cloning plants? Many plants clone themselves naturally. Ok, I'm in. Man has cloned plants successfully for hundreds of years anyway. Yay us! Way to go, keep up the good work!

If cloning plants helps produce better, more resistant crops in a time when a lot of pressure is being placed on arable land, water, energy, and biological resources to provide an adequate supply of food while maintaining the integrity of our ecosystem - then it's aaaaall good. Sorta.

Adequate food distribution would be needed to put an end to hunger and make the world a better place for all yadda, yadda, yadda but isn't the world/life a survival of the fittest "competition" kinda thing? If third world countries can't get their **** together - then screw you, man. You've got what you deserve and there is no way that papa Bono is going to save you.

Now, about the article - cloning animals? Nope, I'm so not up for it. Why? Well because science is pretty much still in diapers when it comes to this. Less than 10% of cloning attempts produce viable offspring. In addition to low success rates, cloned animals tend to have more compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumor growth, and other disorders. Japanese studies have shown that cloned mice live in poor health and die early. About a third of the cloned calves born alive have died young, and many of them were abnormally large. Many cloned animals have not lived long enough to generate good data about how clones age, etc, etc, etc.

Ok, and let's just say that maaaaaaaaaybe one day, after many unsuccessful attempts, they'll finally get it right. Then what? Animals in danger of extinction will be produced by the millions as if they were some fking product? How could this be right? What ever happened to survival of the fittest? (Notice how I am completely sold on Darwin's little theory ) Anyway, even when it came down to man being the guilty party - killing off all of these poor animals either by hunting them or destroying their habitat- it still wouldn't be right because then we would care even less about what we do to our world and its little creatures. "What? Tigers, black bears and polar bears are in danger of becoming extinct? Nonsense! Well just make some." Yeah no. I'm so not up for it.

Human cloning? Uuuuuuuuuh, HELL NO!

In loving memory of Dolly (1996- 2003)

Ahhh, little Dolly, an overnight celebrity. She was famous for being the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA but did the world care about her when she developed lung cancer and crippling arthritis? No. She had to be put down at the tender age of six on a Valentine's Day by lethal injection. He giveth and he taketh away!

-- Edited by Gringa Lahtina at 14:48, 2007-03-29

Well, i'm not sure i like the idea. Mainly because if it doesn't happen naturally it's because it's not supposed to happen. But then again, it's also an example of the extent and a step up to human evolution, when it comes to the things we can do that is... But in the end Science Rules!