Pet cloning business is on the rise, how to avoid the abuse of pet cloning technology?

According to media reports recently, pet cloning is on the rise.
you can clone your pet cat or pet dog for as little as $25,000 to $50,000.
However, there is no guarantee that you will get a new pet that looks or behaves exactly the same as your old pet, and animal lovers note that the transplanted animals used to breed cloned pets live a rather miserable life.
is it really wise to invest in this technology when there are so many small animals still on the streets? The same two: China's first pet cloning service successfully copied the star breed dog in memory of the recently deceased dog "Nini", in Shanghai to do wine business Zhang Weixing spent 380,000 yuan, copied a "Nini."
"Nini" is not the first dog to be cloned, before it there are "good" "go around" "juice" and other cloned dogs were born.
about 30 cm tall is a great star dog, which has appeared in dozens of Chinese films and TV dramas.
As it gets older and its acting career is at its peak, the owner has a desire for the hybrid dog: to live on, even forever.
, a stray dog picked up from the street, the nine-year-old "juice" is infertile because he has undergone sterilization at a young age.
but its owner, animal trainer He Jun, hopes to continue the star dog's image through genetic cloning.
"juice" is itself a socially influential intellectual property right.
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to do that, he found a Chinese biotech company that provides pet cloning services.
last May, the company caused a stir when it successfully cloned a gene-editing dog for the first time in the world.
pet owners will spend at least 380,000 yuan to clone their pets.
chief executive Mi Jidong says their pet cloning business is still in its infancy, but he wants to expand its services and eventually include gene editing. "We're finding that more and more pet owners are eager for pets to stay with them for longer, "
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China's biotech industry is booming and faces relatively few regulatory hurdles than similar companies in the West. Li Tianli, an associate professor at the Chinese School of Medicine in Hong Kong,
, said that while China already has regulations on the use of animals for experimental research, there is no law explicitly covered by cloning animals.
" For the government, the cloning industry gives a cutting-edge high-tech image.
," Lee said.
(In April 2005, a Korean team of researchers cloned the world's first somatic cell clone dog called Snuppy in a laboratory.
and in recent years, with the growth of the pet consumption market, animal cloning has begun to become commercial.
a South Korean company has supplied more than 1,200 cloned dogs worldwide and entered the Chinese cloned pet market in 2014.
a Chinese company that provides cloned "Nini" services for Zhang, which aims to make 300 cloned dogs in a year or two and has received 30 orders in the second half of 2018.
the company's next step will be to clone cats, horses and other animals.
and clones are strictly prohibited, there are no clear provisions for pet cloning.
but pet cloning also faces ethical controversy.
10 science and technology on ethical and policy issues that Forbes has published for the seventh year in a row, pet cloning topped the 2019 list.
clone a dog, although to meet the pet owner's emotional needs for the dog, but the need to use multiple dogs to take eggs and surrogacy, the birth of clones of surrogate dogs will lead a miserable life, their body and physiology will be harmed.
Korea successfully cloned "Snuppy", it used 1,000 embryos and implanted 123 surrogate dogs.
how to avoid the misuse of pet cloning technology at present pet cloning surgery process and technical operation are lack of corresponding standards.
because cloning technology is not yet mature, some cloned animals may have congenital defects and immune problems, but also pose a threat to animal rights. some scholars
worry that some people have broken the ethical line and applied the technology of pet cloning to humans.
such concerns are clearly not a cause for concern.
although the current cost of pet cloning is still relatively high, especially the dog cloning difficulty than other animals, the cost of up to hundreds of thousands of yuan, but for some pet owners, pets are their important spiritual support, both willing to "retain" the beloved pet cost a lot of money, but also have the financial resources to support this.
the 2018 White Paper on China's Pet Industry, China's pet consumption market reached 170.8 billion yuan in 2018, up 20.5% year-on-year, including 105.6 billion yuan in the pet dog market, 65.2 billion yuan in the pet cat market, and 56.48 million people in Urban and Cat China.
with the growth of dog and cat population in urban areas, the scale of China's pet consumption market will continue to expand.
at the same time, with the continuous progress of pet cloning technology, the cost of pet cloning will be reduced, the demand for pet cloning will rise, the potential problems will be further highlighted.
now, pet cloning has begun the pace of commercialization, but regulation is still blank.
facing this situation, the relevant departments must keep pace with the times, keep up with the pace of the development of the pet cloning market, as soon as possible to clarify the relevant standards for the commercialization of pet cloning.
avoid the name of pet love, harm animal rights, but also to avoid the abuse of pet cloning technology.
Source: Global.com, Science and Technology Daily.