In the comments section, please post your 3C paragraph, which should include at least 1 quotation and an MLA citation.
Next, read at least one other person's 3C paragraph and leave a comment or question for them.
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一楼沙发
ReplyDeleteJames Wu
Animal Cloning
Scientists have studied the animal cloning process for long times and they finally find the way to clone the animals. The animal cloning can help the infertile couples to have the baby which means that the population of the animals will grow up. By the growing of population, it protects the endangered animals. By the new cloned animals, they will provide some new cells which are helpful to make the medicine. However, the animal cloning has some really bad facts, the meat from the cloned animals have not tested safe which means if might hurt the human body. Also, the high cost and high failure rate make the animal cloning seems impractical. For the medicine, the new cells are unknown for whether they will hurt human body or not. “Since we are advancing in medicine, there would be no need in cloning” (Richard).So I suggest to bane the animal cloning.
Work Cite
Richard, John. Richard's Blog. N.p., 22 Mar. 2010. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. .
Good job James! human should accept the animal cloning.
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DeleteHi James, I am very excited for you to come over to my house for Christmas break. Maybe we can go see a movie like we did over thanksgiving break. Animal cloning has the potential to be a great discovery. It is nice knowing that our animals will no longer be going extinct. But it is really unfortunate that the meat is not healthy enough to eat. If it were, then I believe then we could put an end to world hunger. Great response and I believe in your belief. I will see you later and have a nice day!
DeleteI agree that they should postpone their decision of animal cloning it would be better to get more efficient with medicine.
Delete二楼板凳
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I think Animal Cloning needs to accept in some areas. Although animal cloning is a high risk and high cost project, animal cloning can help scientists has better research in the different area and reviving endangered or extinct species. “Cloning, in the simplest terms, is the process of producing or replicating a cell, organism or tissue.”(Green Garage) Animal Cloning is a new technology, it helps human produce their antibodies against the disease and even cancers. And reviving endangered or extinct animals are put animal cloning more common and positive way. If more people accept the animal cloning, mankind will discovered the life better. Some of people wants to put clone animal for the food product, I want to say no. I believe human should limited animal cloning in the some of the area for people really need.
Work Cited
10 Marked Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals." Green Garage. © Copyright 2015 - GreenGarageBlog.org , n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2015.
I agree and see the benefits, but were does it stop? Stop being ethical and start being the gray line between mammals and humans?
DeleteI like the points that you make, and I agree that we shouldn't clone animals for food. Great work!
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ReplyDeleteJack Wu
Mrs. Vriend
English IV
15 December 2015
Animal Cloning
Animal cloning is a new research in the world. The main purpose of this work is finding a new way for animals. Animal cloning has many benefits to the research in different ways. However, animal cloning also has many disadvantages toward human. The price of animal cloning is very expensive and ninety five percent of the researches are failed. Animal cloning can make animals stronger than before. That’s true. But, what happen if people eat the meat from these people? Almost two over three of Americans disapprove of cloning animals for food. Sixty percent of Americans said that they would not buy these food even it said safe. The cloning animals are not nature. They break the law of nature. These animals evolve by human’s technology so that they loss the way to evolve by themselves. Also, there are some unexpectedly development problems in these animals’ bodies. “Although the animals are in theory identical, the same forces that result in so many visibly defective offspring could also result in invisible but dangerous alterations on the cellular level. These changes could be dangerous to human beings consuming the meat, eggs or milk of the cloned animals.” (Animal cloning pros and cons). We don’t know when the problems will happen and what problems will happen. If the problems are serious that human can’t control. How can we live in the world? In the other hand, these animals would destroy the nature. It is not the first time the animals in lab run out of the lab and cause the environment problem. Mexican made a test for the African killer bees. They wanted clone the bees so that they would not kill the people and product more honey. Then, two bees run out of the lab and caused the bees kill twelve to twenty people every year until the ending of WWII. The animal cloning is not a good way for the human health. We should ban the project in our daily life.
Work Cited
Shugerman, Lindsay. "Animal cloning ." Animal cloning pros and cons. INFO Library, n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. .
did any one agree with my point?
DeleteTrue, there are many disadvantages of cloning animals. Yet, to inform you, those statistics you used (That are not cited - luckily I know where they were from)are biased at best. The clones that scientists are using would not be for producing more foods unless they proven to be healthy. Animals that produce goods that can alter humans negatively are the clones that they are testing. These test consist of a separate group of animals that are not used to produce milk, eggs, cheeses and so on. Cloning might have an affect on the animals and how they produce these items, but currently cloning does not affect humans. Also, even though 66 percent of Americans are against eating cloned foods, that doesn't mean that they will not consume it in the future when the opportunity is available to them. Cloned animals means cheaper foods and could benefit the economy as well. Looking to history as an example, credit was not a widely accepted from of payment, and looked down on by many companies and people. Regardless of these negative views of credit, they caught on soon because they realized how it can benefit them. In the same way, I feel that, besides the other points I make in my response, foods produced by these animals that are deemed safe and have been tested for the best quality would help America, not make it worse. Until that day, clones are still more fictional than reality as we have a long ways to go before implementing them into our daily lives.
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ReplyDeleteMrs. Vriend
English IV
15 December 2015
3C – Animal Cloning
With altering the natural way of life, there would seem to be no room for justification. No one would be able to justify going against ethics to produce an animal that will more than likely suffer as the technology is still developing. Still, the counterargument has yet to be heard. Cloning is beneficial to bringing back the extinct animals. This is sounding even more so unnatural, but it is actually the opposite. Humans were a people that caused a lot of damage and deaths to animals and their homes with our clumsiness, especially prior to being aware of what consequences our actions pertained. Humans have caused the extinction – sometimes incidental, other times on purpose – of many species of animals. In a way, humans have cause unnatural deaths to many species of animals, or are bring them close to extinction as they lie on a wavering line between endangered and just a story. Bringing the extinct or endangered species of animals back to life through cloning would not only save the animal species dwindling in our world, but it could also fix the problems we made by hunting the animals, spreading diseases, or destroying their homes. In Carl Zimmer’s article about De-extinction, the resurrection of an animal species, he quotes Michael Archer, a paleontologist at the University of New South Wales and he has been involved with figuring out de-extinction for years. “‘If we’re talking about species we drove extinct, then I think we have an obligation to try to do this…’” (Zimmer). Archer has a point in saying that we have an obligation to fix what we did, as it was our doing. Although the technology is not efficient enough for successfully delivering a cloned baby right now, the technology is improving. If one day scientists are able to reproduce a cloned animal, it would be the least we can do by bringing them back from extinction. Zimmer further discusses his findings on how the process was done to produce a clone of Celia, a Bucardo who died underneath a fallen tree and marked the official extinction of the Bucardo species, only because hunters killed off almost all, but Celia and eleven others. Celia was the last one, from her genes they produced a clone, but it survived no more than ten minutes due to a problem in the lungs. This was over ten years ago, and since this time the technology for producing clones has improved. Fernández-Arias was the scientist behind the attempt at cloning the Bucardo, and he eagerly waits for the time when they will be able to successfully bring back many species that he has felt that the human race is responsible for. “De-extinction is now within reach” (Zimmer). Knowing that we are soon capable of fixing the unnatural causes of extinction, cloning does not sound as bad as people make it to seem, because it can help undo what we carelessly did to them.
Works Cited
Zimmer, Carl. Bringing Them Back to Life. National Geographic. NGM.com. April 2013. Web. 14 December 2015. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/125-species-revival/zimmer-text
Yo, God killed off those animals for a reason, whether through human error or natural. What happens when people try to start "De-extincting" dinosaurs? Can I hear a Jurassic park for realz?
DeleteThe thing is, De-extinction is only effective to the first 10,000 years of DNA. Scientists are unable to extract DNA from dinosaurs that they would successfully be able to clone as their DNA was 65 million years old (According to scientists - however accurate that is)
DeleteBut to refute your point that God killed off them through human error, that is just like saying God meant to kill off babies through abortion, he wanted people to become sexually immoral by allowing the way people are nowadays, and God planned for his word to become distorted into thousand of different religious views, whether minor or major. Did God have a reason for those things, or were they caused by humans sins? in the same way, could not also the killing off of those animals be by our doing
Jo, it is very good to think about the future thing based on the technology. animal cloning has many unexpected problems that we don't know.
DeleteI agree with Jo and have you seen Jurassic park? Just saying. If we allow this...its like opening the floodgates to worse things.
DeleteJoseph Polivka
ReplyDeleteMrs. Vriend
English 4
14 December 2015
Animal Cloning
Is it right to clone animals? Here in lies yet another ethical question, that we all must take a side on or skillfully avoid. Although, this is a much easier question to answer and/or not to answer, than whether or not it is right to genetically modify a human? After all, we are talking about an animal; and humans already hunt, kill, and eat animals. With that in mind, it is much easier for me not to be opposed to animal cloning. If animals die in the process of cloning for human gain, it is the same as animals dying ever day to feed our hungry bellies. The problem I have with animal cloning is not whether it is humane or not, but it is that the science is not yet proven. Humankind does a lot of accepted things to animals that are not humane. “Using genetic technologies to clone food animals is a relatively new science that remains understudied and imprecise” (“About Cloned Animals”). Therefore, I cannot support it. If your going to do something, do it right, or not at all.
Works Cited
"About Cloned Animals." Center for Food Safety. Center for Food Safety, 2015. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. .
"Animal Cloning - Pros and Cons Discussed." Manataka America Indian Council. Manataka, n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. .
"Fast Facts About Animal Cloning." EndAnimalCloning.org. American Anti-Vivisection Society, 2010. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. .
Yep, we can use the humanity to define the animal cloning because we are the predator of them, but the biggest worry is that this technology haven't tested safe.
Deletetrue, people need think about the animals' feeling during their test
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ReplyDeleteAnimal cloning has been in existence for some time, specifically the 70’s. Now, sense then, there has been huge advancements in this tech and science. Animal cloning has many forms, but I will quickly turn your attention to the reality we live in. This is not the 1970’s this is 2015. In 1979 the walkman was invented, honestly, we all know we have come light years in science and tech sense then. It’s 2015 and we have self automated cars and drones that deliver orders from Amazon.com. In light of the worlds advancements, ask yourself this, where do you think cloning has gone and will continue to go sense the decade of the walkman and the discovery of animal cloning. If your mind went right to humans, then you are on the same page as the rest of society and you have just entered reality. “According to the Bioethics Defense Fund, an additional four states simply prohibit state funding of human cloning and 10 states allow human embryos to be cloned but ban the embryo from being allowed to mature full term”. (BDF) Human cloning is not only possible but it is seeking government funding by private practices and scientific organizations. So what happened? What brought the progressive world to this exploration? I will answer with a remark and a question. Knowledge is the key to the future as we know it, it is also the key that locks morality in the closet of irrelevance. At what cost do we progress?
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Brittney Freeman
ReplyDeleteMrs. Vriend
English IV
December 15, 2015
Animal Cloning
Animal cloning isn’t a new science. It has actually been around since the 1880’s when a German biologist, Hans Driesch, cloned a sea urchin. Even though the science of animal cloning has been around for quite some time, it has just recently become a hot topic. Many people don’t want animals to be cloned for fear of the safety of the by-products, the safety of the animals, and simply due to the cost, but animal cloning can create far superior animals and create more food for us to eat. Many people think that animal clones wouldn’t be safe to eat, but the FDA says otherwise: “Based on a final risk assessment, a report written by FDA scientists and issued in January 2008, FDA has concluded that meat and milk from cow, pig, and goat clones and the offspring of any animal clones are as safe as food we eat every day.” (“Animal Cloning”) This report of the final risk assessment done by the FDA shows that animal clones are, in fact, safe to eat. Due to the many ways we could benefit from animal cloning, I would definitely support it.
Works Cited: "Animal Cloning." U.S. Food and Drug Administration. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 14 July 2014. Web. 15 Dec. 2015.
I agree with the point that we could have benefit from animal cloning.
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Keith Carlson
ReplyDeleteAnimal Cloning
What is cloning and what does it have to do with animals? It is quite possible that within the next 100 years, the meat on your table will be from a clone of a the perfect steak yielding cow. Why is this the case you may ask? It would be much easier to clone the perfect animal after breeding it only once instead of trying to breed the perfect animal many times over. The possibilities of animal cloning is quite extraordinary actually. We could end extinction with this technology and bring already extinct species back into the world they left. It would also make home essentials such as meats and milk significantly cheaper than it is currently which i personally see as a plus. However, we still know very little on the matters of successfully cloning an animal. Sadly, with the technology being so new still it isn’t the easiest thing to pull off successfully, with over 95% of attempts resulting in deformities or death of the animal. “Scientists are working on ways to improve the technology. For example, when two genetically identical cloned mice embryos are combined, the aggregate embryo is more likely to survive to birth. As of now, I am all for the cloning of animals, the sooner we crack the code, the sooner the animals won’t suffer from trial and error with all the testing.
Work cited
"Animal cloning." Understanding Animal Research. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2015.
Timmy Yoon
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English IV
15 December 2015
Animal Cloning
Some people think that people should stop cloning animal. But, I believe that animal cloning should be more common. Because people can save endangered animals and they can have different types of medicines and drug tests. Some people might argue that animal cloning is too expensive. However, it is clear that to save endangered animals and developed the medicine and drugs are more important. "Many different medicines and drugs are tested and developed with the use of animals. Using cloned animals, you are able to get much better and more accurate results of these tests. This is because the test subjects are all standardized and have the exact same features” (14). Along with this example, it is better to have medicines and drug tests from cloning animals.
Work Cited
"14 Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals." Frantic foodie. N.p., 27 May 2015. Web. 16 Dec. 2015. .
I agree my friend. Sometime, people need to take the risk to develop some part.
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DeleteDaihwan Shin - I agree my friend. Sometime, people need to take the risk to develop some part.
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ReplyDeleteMs Vriend
English IV
15 December 2015
Animal Cloning
There are lots of cons and pros about Animal Cloning. The objectors propose that as it delivers unmeasurable pain and disrespect to the animal, human society should stop cloning animals. However, in my perspective, we always have used animals for our basic needs and also for developing biological technology. For instance, by using domestic animals, we received lots of dairy products and also meats from them. That has already caused lots of pain for them. If people are trying to defend animals by emphasizing the pain that animals have from cloning, it’s really pretentious. Moreover, as there are a number of benefits that affect human society from animal cloning, it’s hard to ban. By using cloning, scientist can reinforce the weak DNA from domestic animals so people can eat healthy foods. (Fast Facts About Animal Cloning) Not only that, but by using Animal Cloning, people can preserve the crisis of animal extinction. Due to these reasons, it is hard to ban the animal cloning. (Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals)
"Fast Facts About Animal Cloning." EndAnimalCloning.org. American Anti-Vivisection Society, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. Path: http://endanimalcloning.org/factsaboutanimalcloning.shtml.
"Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals." OCCUPY THEORY. Copyright © 2014 OccupyTheory.org , 30 Sept. 2014. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. Path: http://occupytheory.org/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-cloning-animals/.
You have various good points Daihwan. It is important to note, however, that many people are concerned with the fact that animal cloning might endanger the human species by causing a defect in the food they consume.
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Englsih IV
16 December 2015
Animal Cloning
When introduced to something completely new, humans are either very excited to discover the novelty or so scared that they refuse to give whatever the “new-thing” is an opportunity. Animal cloning is the same way, a slightly controversial topic stretched on both ends—some putting emphasis on positive and some on the negative. “There are few studies on the risks of food from cloned animals, and no long-term food safety studies have been completed.” (Center) The majority of animals to be cloned will be used for food purposes, therefore, it is not shocking to find that this fact keeps various opponents of animal cloning skeptical. Proponents of animal cloning should focus more on providing research to their counter parts before urging government officials to take action and make animal cloning legal. I believe that it would not be wise to act before attaining more knowledge on the matter.
Works Cited
Center for Food Safety. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2015.
I completely agree! What we put into our bodies is so important, and with things like this it is very hard to study the health behind it because a problem not seen through even a ten year study could show itself generations later. It is wrong not to care for ourselves.
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ReplyDeleteMrs. Vriend
English IV
14 December 2015
Animal Cloning
Science is so advanced in today's age that we the people do not know how to respond. Animal cloning is another topic that people get fired up about. Is it good or is it bad? Some people do not like change and something this advanced has to be bad for you. That's what they said about microwaves. But animal cloning could have many positive effects by giving us opportunity to create new medicine, have the best herds, and it allows us to keep moving forward in the science world. And with clones comes more experiments. And through those experiments could come medical benefits. It also helps farmers and their herds because a farmer could take his best animal and clone it several times and now his whole herd is strong and healthy. "Cloning is a big first step. Genetic manipulation of cloned animals is the future direction of the cloning frontier" ( This is a huge step for science and with that comes more knowledge. This could lead to the end of world hunger and diseases and cancer. But we can't move forward if we don't take the risk. Animal cloning opens the door to so much and it can only help the human race.
ANIMAL RIGHTS. AND WRONGS. Manataka® American Indian Council, n.d. Google. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. .
Amelia France's Esther
ReplyDeleteWhen hearing the term cloning, the mind is brought instantly to science fiction, placing a sheep under a green light and 'poof'! Another sheep. This is not the case. Cloning is much more humane, now that it is fairly developed. FDA.gov tells us that, "most cloning uses a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer" this is done to an immature egg from the female, and then the clone as well as the original is sent to a surrogate female to be carried to birth. Though humane, it is morally wrong in the view of a followers heart. We have no right to pick apart Gods creation and alter what we feel needs change. It is sickening that humans are not seeing the amazing beauty that God had placed in this earth. Though this procedure comes across more gently than say, GM babies, it is equally unmoral. It is the same concept and there is nothing else for arguments sake that would bring me to anymore points why this is simply wrong.
"A Primer on Cloning and Its Uses in Livestock Operations." Fda.gov. 28 July 2014. Web. 17 Dec. 2015.
Rachael Seymour
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When life puts hurdles in our lives humans seem to always want to break through them no matter what the costs, but the hurdle today is animal cloning. With both positive and negatives it trips up even some of the more stubborn people about where they stand on the issue. its true that scientist hope for it to be use to save lives from problems we can't solve today, but we are only people and we make mistakes. It's true that it can be used for good and has a lot of potential being as it may it is still dangerous since we have no laws our ideas of what will happen when we use it on humans. Will clones count as humans and be protected by the laws of other citizens (speaking as if they were in America) or would we treat human clones as cattle or as lab rats for scientific discovery. what is considered right and wrong for them. Are they not flesh and blood though not born from a mothers womb but born from man in a laboratory were they don't even know that they have those rights. Taking away one man or women's freedom without promotion weather clone or natural birth is wrong even if it saves another mans life. They who have not been born have done nothing but be made into a world where people believe that if it's not natural type creation it is just an object for medical use is wrong and should be thought about carefully before any decisions are made.
work cited
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloning Animals. occupytheory.org, 2014. Web. 18 Dec. 2015. http://occupytheory.org/
I do not believe that it is our right to create life outside of the natural way of things. If we allow this to happen we are opening up to something even worse: human cloning. It is not right to try to play God, just look at Frankenstein! It may be a story but it teaches some very good points. 95 percent of animal cloning fails, yet we continue to let these animals suffer. God gave us these animals as a gift to rule over, not to be cruel to. Have some humanity.
ReplyDeleteGod gave us the animals as a gift, yet we have hunted may to extinction. God's creations. Now, we as humans have a chance to fix this, repair the broken ecosystem. Now is that so bad? Or are humans merely trying to repair the world to the way God created it.
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ReplyDeleteJust like anything else that has given humanity the opportunity to further scientific research, there has been people that claim what is being done goes against their ethics, morals or religion. Many great scientists in the past had their ideas rejected by the church. For example, the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun was a radical idea in the 1600s. So much so that the church many times resorted to violence in order to keep what they saw as the correct views in every ones minds. "The church believed in the idea so much that in the early 1600s they burnt Giordano Bruno at the stake and later sentenced Galileo to house arrest for supporting the Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun" (LifeHack). Now, science has advanced of course, and as science advances, bigger problems arise. Now, a main talking point is animal cloning. Most opposing arguments claim it is not a person's place to play God. Little do many people know, animal cloning can revive extinct species, reduce food shortages as well as remove genetic disorders that cut numbers of livestock annually. Many people don't know that the extinction of an animal can change the once balanced ecosystem. With cloning, the ecosystem can go back to normal. The way God created it to be. Humans have done many wrong actions or mistakes. Now, people have the option to fix at least the extinction of many key species of animals. Not dinosaurs of course, but species such as the dodo bird, rhinoceros and Australia's own, Tasmanian Tiger. Which, since it's extinction, has directly increased the number of kangaroos in Australia, making them a huge pest. If not for food shortages, consider animal cloning to repopulate once key species that have led to an imbalance in the world's ecosystems.
Works Cited:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/6-world-changing-ideas-that-were- originally-rejected.html
http://healthresearchfunding.org/pros-cons-animal-cloning/