
The Chinese Cloning Farm
From Cows to Endangered Animals
The Science of a healthy life
Inside the stylish and newly built glass building that belongs to Chinese firm BoyaLife there is a constant hum, an audible dream being weaved out of technology and science, like the ones found in your every sci.fi movie dream, you know, right before the killer A.I/corporate fueled apocalypse takes over that is :).
But here in main land China, what I see more than anything is that technology and cloning represents perhaps both the best and final hope for species such as the critically endangered Northern White Rhino ( down to 3 remaining individuals as of now) as well as a healthier world for us contemporary humans.

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At BoyaLife animal health and welfare do remain a concern
Cloning is of course not yet perfected and it might never be something which we completely master, so for the foreseeable future deaths and failures sadly do occur in the process, and as such the EU Food Safety Authority and others do keep a constant and watchful eye on the rapidly emerging global field of cloning.
We are after all talking about living animals.
And as nature knows, creating functional, happy and healthy strong life is not all that easy to get right.
But like the universe itself, humans too have started to get it right.
BoyaLife, one Chinese company at the forefront of cloning already produce hundreds of cloned cows and pigs every year and it´s meat have been found to be edible and tasty.
Let me just get it out of the way tho.
I do not see making cows and chickens, or dogs and cats for lusting pet owners, and meat eaters, as the future of cloning.
Yes, I am sure that too will end up a pretty big part of the meat & cloning industry, and the company itself see a not too distant future where it will be responsible for producing at least 5% of the annual Chinese slaughter cattle.
Add to that all the other cloning facilities all over the world and cloning will without a doubt be a big part of our future mega-farming industry - and both pets and farm animals will, of course, most likely serve as the financial driver behind the emerging field of cloning.
But producing farm cattle just to kill them and eat them, is in my personal opinion wasting the promise of cloning, not to mention, we all really should stop eating meat and eggs from the millions of sad cows and indoors dwelling chickens. Talk about animal well fare concerns to see the huge rows of sad cows and pigs, and chickens that spend their entire lives locked up inside of dull and unsatisfactory factory farm buildings. Issues that you have to add on top of the lackluster sustainability, environmental destruction and the lack of humanity that is so rampant in the large-scale meat industry and so forth.
And as such, like a tiny little seed growing on the other side of all that is wrong with our modern day farming industry, cloning does have a bright and sustainable future waiting just ahead of us.
After all, most meat will soon be grown artificially, and cloning will serve a better purpose than the dark and gruesome role of a dystopian cow duplicator.
For the time being this will not happen right in this instance, nor will it happen at scale, but just as we are increasing the pace with which we are already walking down the path of sustainability and meatless plates, cloning and artificial meat is bound to happen too on a large and transformative scale.
For now, tho, eating pig and cow meat sadly seems to be something that globally is increasing in scope.
But let´s put that part to the side and instead focus on one of the potentially positive aspects of cloning.
Endangered species. BoyaLife itself see the huge and positive impact they could bring to the table in the fight against extinction, and as such, they already have plans of their own to keep the Chinese giant panda from going extinct.
And that makes me very happy.
2000
[Northern
White
Rhinos
cloned
& Ready]
To me and Xu Xiaochun, the boyaLife chief in charge, what I just wrote to the left of this paragraph, is a hopeful thing of a beautiful future.
And really, no matter if like us, you are seeing the promise of a positive future of cloning, or you are already freaking out thinking about half empty water bottles and a matrix style future where deranged corporations churn out human slave workers to replace the ones already broken. No matter your personal opinion about cloning. It has to be almost impossible to not see how cloning could be put to use right away to save not just the Northern White Rhino from going extinct (and will anything else really be able to save a species of just 3 individuals?) but Tigers, Elephants, the Polar Bear and the tiny bumblebee and every other iconic or essential endangered species there is could also be kept from going extinct in the wild.
While I think we can safely assume that most of humanity has finally reached a point where we can agree that we will from now on always have to try our best to cut down on human-caused poaching and environmental destruction, cloning would be able to diversify the genetic markup of whatever wild animal population there is, as well as reinforce it's numbered on a perpetual basis, when it is needed to rectify what we have already caused.
Making sure we never again lose another animal species.
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One of many cloning facilities already found around the world
“This is going to change our world and our lives,” Xu Xiaochun, the chief executive of BoyaLife said. “It is going to make our life better. So we are very, very excited about it.”.
He too has high hopes for what will be the worlds biggest and newest cloning factory once it opens. Both from a commercial point of view as well as when it comes to saving endangered animals and bringing back already extinct species from the other side of the grave.
14,000
[hIGH TECH
Square
metre]
14,000-square-metre and state of the art. It is as beautiful an architectural creation as it is a fascinating scientific reality. You might see doom and gloom and human hubris, but what I see is the future. Well, cloning of course already exist and you can already purchase both milk and meat from cloned animals.
But what they are right now building in China, that to me is a representation of an even better tomorrow.
A tomorrow on planet Earth where the Sumatran Tiger will never go extinct.
A tomorrow where there will be thousands of Northern White Rhinos roaming the African wild, peacefully grazing the African step and forming what we call a crash of beautiful proportions.
A glorious tomorrow where the countless of wild species wiped out in Europe and USA will never again happen. A world where humanity will not just be much more aware of doing things right and humane but also guided by making our world more empathic, equal and healthy.
And as such, cloning is a healthy part of a tomorrow where it will be, even when we fail and stumble, impossible to wipe out another living, breathing animal species.
Best of all, I believe that BoyaLife´s man in charge sees that very same near future. I hope so at least, and I do believe that he too sees the beauty of wild and thriving wildlife sanctuaries all over the world. A world where there will be no sad headlines about the Amur Leopard having met its demise. No apocalypse due to the demise of butterflies and bumblebees.
Of course, seeing the positive future that will come out of it does not negate the need for doing cloning in a transparent and humane and life-improving way. The animals health and well being is what needs to be put first at every stage of the process. But despite the constant failures of humanity which we can all see at public display around the world, I also clearly see that we have globally already started to realize the need for a more empathic, healthy and caring way of life, individually and globally.
Life is full of constant failures, the rise of Donald Trump is one such failure, not Donald himself, but the fear and selfish lack of humanity that he and his voters represents is a failure.
The constant flow of refugees from the inhuman horrors playing out in Syria is another such failure. Not due to the people fleeing, but the worlds lack of a humane response. A mirror image of what happened to hundreds of millions of people before, during and after world war 2 when not only Hitler but also Stalin rounded up tens of millions of people they did not wish to see or treat as equally deserving human beings. All while the rest of the world was busy choosing to not really wanting to see the horror show for what it was.
But momentary failures like that can not obscure the fact that life on Earth has never before been as healthy and equal and fulfilling as it is right at this moment. Hope and life are what powers our tomorrow and cloning is one such improvement. How we use it is ultimately up to us tho and as such there will be failures, caused by human greed and closed off minds, but as the march of progress continues, we will all continue to improve life on earth in the bigger picture and cloning will indeed play a huge role in that brighter, ever improving tomorrow.
And one day soon, we will all get to experience a world where with the rising sun, news trickles out about a butterfly and a pale white northern rhino having been cloned and released into the wild. And perhaps, that day will also bring with it a day where cows, pigs, and chickens are once again allowed to be real animals living healthy and happy lives outdoors in nature instead of being treated the inhuman way the mega factory farms do treat these animals. Who know´s, that might even be the day when our beautiful blue marble have finally embraced a sustainable way of life through and through, that too is surely needed.

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