Transgenic and cloned animals: Ethical problems - Agrocampus Ouest

• Transgenic Ethic
• Positiv aspects
– Medical:
• Ex: desease models,
tranpharming models,
xenotransplanters
– Scientific:
• Animals engineered to
overexpress a specific
protein to help to discover
protein function
– Food providing:
• Ex: Superfish
• Improvement by genes
• Negativ aspects:
– Destroy the animal integrity
– “playing God”
– Loss of genetic diversity
– Environment hazard, animal
suffering..
– Who is really benefitting?
• Human species?
• Biotech investors?