Cloning and Breed Registry - Page 1

For breeds with open registeries I suppose clones will be allowed but for dog breeds with closed breed books this is a thorny issue since clones though supposedly identical are not carbon copies and can have different tool sets and personalities.  For one thing a clone usually does not get the benefits of maternal hormones and nurturing as a gestational birth benefits the embryo during development and post natal through colostrum and mothering.  This may be a good thing if allowed however as it will teach humans that we are more than our genes.  Would a famous world champion that had 10 clones be as valuable or as useful to his or her breed.  Ten copies of Emika Anrebri ( seems like there may have been more than one with all the pups she produced ) or 10 copies of the recent BSP winner Hank opens up a world of possibilities and problems.  How do you prove fatherhood if clones illegal or legal exist.  There are methods to test DNA for clones but it gets complicated and costly.  Cloning is not 100% safe or the clones can have unforseen new positive or negative defects due to cloning.  We all are eating GMO food which contains in many cases foreign DNA never present in nature.  Do we say yes to GMO food and no to cloned meat or cloned breeding stock??  The lines can become blurred.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-cloned-horses-20150314-story.html