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We've always had strong moral responsibility, or we should have had, to other species,' says Richard Twine, the British sociologist. 'We just haven't exercised that very well.
… To many biologists, cloning is all sizzle and no substance, a high-tech spectacle that fails to address habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and the other human activities that put wildlife at risk in the first place…
But the time for first resorts has come and gone, and safeguarding species is an all-hands-on-deck enterprise. … Cloning won't be a cure-all, but given the state of the planet, it can't hurt to have options.
For the vast majority of us who reside in the troubled middle, there are no easy answers to the ethical dilemmas that biotechnology can pose. As biotechnology moves forward, we'll have to carefully evaluate each application on its own terms, trying to balance what's in the best interests of an individual animal with what's good for its species as a whole, for humanity, and for the world we all share.
The troubled middle is…a place where it's possible to truly love animals and still accept their occasional role as resources, objects, and tools. Those of us in the troubled middle believe that animals deserve to be treated well, but we don't want to ban their use in medical research. We care enough to want livestock to be raised humanely, but don't want to abandon meat-eating altogether. 'Some argue that we are fence-sitters, moral wimps,' Herzog, himself a resident of the troubled middle, writes. 'I believe, however, that the troubled middle makes perfect sense because moral quagmires are inevitable in a species with a huge brain and a big heart. They come with the territory.
As Rollin put it in his book The Frankenstein Syndrome, 'It is simply false that all genetic engineering must harm animals. Unless one assumes that all species of animals exist currently at their maximal possible state of happiness or well-being of welfare, such a claim is not legitimate.
Cloning is reproduction - it's not resurrection.
Though the ostensible goal of engineering pain-free animals is to minimize other species' discomfort, what it's really doing is alleviating our own. if we think these creatures aren't capable of feeling much pain, will that give us license to alter and exploit them in even more profound ways?
