Does cloning have a future with hunting

[Connor Baumgarten]

So I’ve been loosely following the science of cloning for the last 10 years or so(I’m not a expert just a student) since I first heard of it as a kid back in 2012(not from Star Wars or Jurassic park) and recently it’s being talked allot about in the news. So brief summary for those who don’t know about it, is basically you take the DNA of a existing animal precisely down to it’s genetic code to where you get a perfect copy of the original animal(there’s a company in South Korea that clones your dog for a outrageous amount of money). And right now there is a company called Colossus laboratories & Biosciences working on using salvageable DNA from dead woolly mammoths from the arctic circle preserved in permafrost(very icy dirt that refuses to melt) and take that DNA and fill the missing code’s with Indian elephant DNA to create a mammoth/elephant hybrid. Now for all the game farmer’s/people who are interested you kind of do the same thing with selective breeding for bigger animals, same with farmers and ranchers.

Now here is my ultimate question. Does cloning have a future with hunting worldwide? With cloning we can have bigger animals but is it ethical to hunt animals made in a lad? We will see animals back that were once lost but have returned…but do we consider them animals or a heresy against nature?

Ultimately in my opinion I think that hunting cloned related animals will be okay but not the clone itself. Like the offspring of the clone.
I’m very interested to read your thoughts and opinions on this subject if you feel so inclined to leave a comment.

 

[buck wild]

We covered this fairly recently in another thread but that centered more on the hypothetical "if you could hunt anything that was previously extinct" sort of fun game. I think the topic has also showed up in other threads.

I think we are still a ways off from actually pulling it off and assuming we get there, which I have no doubt we will, it'll be generations before there would be enough "stock" so to speak to even consider hunting. I suspect by then, HUNTING WILL BE BANNED around the world and it will be a moot point.

But put me in line for Irish Elk should I still be alive and they come into season.

BUT cloning has already been in play for a decade or so in the whitetail world. It has produced a generically superior specimen and those are reproducing in game breeding facility. I think it has mostly been done in Texas kinda under the radar. The offspring are being released onto hunting ranches.