(Oct 9, 2017 05:36 AM)C C Wrote: https://www.seeker.com/earth/animals/the-rise-of-necrofauna-and-the-ethical-dilemma-of-de-extinction

EXCERPT: De-extinction efforts seek to bring back a once-ubiquitous tree, a vomiting frog, and even the wooly mammoth, but they raise vexing ethical questions [...] there is a lot of “animal failure involved in cloning processes, and some of the animals that do make it may end up in captivity for most, if not all, of their lives.” [...] The quest for necrofauna may also divert resources and attention from conservation programs for currently endangered species [...] “Due to the high level of genetic modification that will be required to make many of the animals, they will not be seen as a product of nature in the eyes of the law, and therefore should be patentable,” Wray explained. Patents in hand, researchers might then make “un-extinct” animals for the exotic pet market, wilderness meat for human consumers, scientific oddities for display, and other “nightmare scenarios,” as Wray called them...

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