Shelby's Blog #3

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/business/28clone.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin

In a way we ARE living in a brave new world. In Huxley’s, scientific questioning was prohibited, but in ours, it is encouraged. For example, the new industry that centers around the cloning of domesticated pets is taking off. The cloning started with cats, but is moving to dogs. The concerns that people have with cloning relates to John’s concerns with Huxley’s new world’s reproduction process. Lori. B. Gruen states within the article that “ ‘There are legitimate ethical worries that people are expressing about the suffering of animals” (2), just as John expressed his worries about the Bokanovsky process.

Also this article seems to hypothesize that more and more people will desire clones of their pets, just as Huxley’s new world wanted clones of people. The cloning of Ford’s cars took off at a rapid rate, leading to the cloning of people (in Huxley’s novel). What is to say that the cloning of people isn’t far from the cloning of pets? The article even states that “[cloning and it’s] popularity expands” as “[it] grows more efficient and therefore less expensive” (2). It appears that the cloning of humans is not far away.