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World’s largest cloning facility in China aims to produce a million cattle a year, along with other animals
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 20:18
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The world’s biggest animal “cloning factory” is due to open in China, producing one million calves a year, sniffer dogs and even genetic copies of the family pet.
The £21 million “commercial” facility will edge the controversial science “closer to mainstream acceptance”, Chinese media said, following the development of a technique which began when Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal when she was born in Scotland in 1996.
The centre may cause alarm in Europe, where the cloning of animals for farming was banned in September due to animal welfare considerations.
But Xu Xiaochun, chairman of Chinese biotechnology company BoyaLife that is backing the facility, dismissed such concerns …. http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/11/worlds-largest-cloning-facility-in.html
I think the food industry is already using artificial insemination and other methods to increase meat production and new types of modified produce products and grains