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... for human cloning. Because feeding a ballooning population is an enormous task, much of the cloning research since and before Dolly has been centered around improving agriculture (Clone, 3). The first and most obvious way in which cloning may benefit agriculture is allowing farmers to replicate their best animals. A farmer can clone the heaviest pig, the cow that produces the most milk, or the chicken which lays the most eggs. This will give farmers the perfect livestock because it will not be necessary to waste food and space on below average animals. Even more exciting is the possibility of cloning animals who have been genetically engineered to be immune to certain diseases. For instance, a cow could be developed which is immune from mad cow disease. This cow could be cloned thousands upon thousands of times, reducing the risk of the dangerous disease in the food supply. Although these techniques ...