Transgenic and cloned animals: Ethical problems - Agrocampus Ouest
Transgenic and cloned animals: Ethical problems - Agrocampus Ouest
Transgenic and cloned animals: Ethical problems - Agrocampus Ouest
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Should we patent a living creature?<br />
• Bulgaria: Yes,<br />
– Patents are a way to increase incentive for creating transgenic<br />
or <strong>cloned</strong> <strong>animals</strong>.<br />
– The legislation behind transgenic <strong>animals</strong> helps to keep this new<br />
technology from becoming an unethical source of scientific<br />
study.<br />
• Pol<strong>and</strong> =Bulgarian point of view.<br />
– But side the patents on transgenic <strong>animals</strong> may be a form of<br />
control to spread them.<br />
• France: A living creature belongs to nature but not to a<br />
person (scientist) even if he has genetically modified it.<br />
– Possible hazard for nature<br />
– man should not patent a living creature
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