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Article: Exploitation and greed behind pet cloning.(News)
- Article from:
- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2008
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Your article "R1m for resurrectors of Booger the pitbull" refers (The Sunday Independent, February 17).
Few people are aware of the cruelty involved in pet cloning, which is why, in 2005, legislation was sought in California, to ban the sale and transfer of cloned and genetically modified pets.
The cloning of pets, a practice based on the exploitation of both humans and animals, exploits the emotions of individuals who have recently lost a beloved companion animal and who are duped into paying enormous sums of money for cloned copies.
But, while people are promised that their new animals will look the same as the originals, they will not exhibit ...