Are cloned animals the answer to world hunger?

Question

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Answer 1

No. World hunger is not necessarily due to shortage in food supply. Part of the problem is geographical and logistics. Part of it is political. And part is regional economy. Without cloning, the world can produce enough food for all the people in the world. Cloning will not generate more food because cloned animals will basically be raised the same way as non-cloned animals. Besides the generation of more food will not solve the root causes of world hunger, i.e. I cannot take the food not eaten by my kids and have it appear on the tables of the starving children in Africa.

Answer 2

Although it would seem obvious that the answer is yes, I doubt that this will solve any sort of world hunger problem. Lets look at Africa, where thousands, if not hundreds of thousands die of starvation every year. First off, there may be laboratories in certain parts of Africa, but most likely no-where near any of the "3rd world" locations that desperately need the food. I'm fairly certain that companies aren't going to pay to have animals cloned, raised, and then shipped off to wherever needs them without being compensated in at least some manner. Also, think of part of the reason why these people are starving, because the animals themselves do not have enough to eat. Bringing more animals to places where the current stock cannot be kept up is ridiculous. Dead animals and dead people only breeds disease, as well as hunger. So, no, even if we were to help out a few people, it may be worth it. But in the long run, I don't believe that anything will come of this.

Answer 3

I wouldn't think that cloned animals would solve world hunger. Sure, producing livestock may be easier, as you would have constant good specimens for consumption, but there are a couple problems.

First of all, if they are made in well-developed countries such as the U.S, Canada, UK, etc, then that does not mean that the food will make it to areas of need, such as Africa or the Middle East. Apparently there is more than enough food to feed the entire world that is produced every year (excluding droughts). The thing is: it will cost lots of money to ship the food to the areas of need. USA and Canada, every year, dump thousands of tonnes of wheat into the ocean, so it will not be sold. Why? To not flood the market with grain. If it happened, farmers would make no money. But, you may think: why don't they ship it to the areas of need? Good question... there are thousands of reasons why not (although I might not agree with all of them).

I'll bet you that cloning animals will require high-tech labs for a long time. So, in poor countries, which would not have the labs, animals would not be cloned.

Another thing that you have to consider is that to grow a cow (for example) you'll have to feed the cow hundreds of pounds of wheat (or other grain) before the cow is large enough for consumption. I think the ratio is for every pound of beef you have, it took 5 pounds of grain to make it. That's a lot of food.

To solve world hunger, I think people should consider grains ad other plants rather than meat. Meat and meat products, although important, are not as important as other types of food. To solve the hunger you'd need to be able to locally produce food, such as grain.

Answer 4

No. initially, the imput that is going into cloning animals is probbly way greater effective than what is going into rearing one, no longer too point out I think of the outputs are greater risky to the atmosphere. additionally do no longer you are able to desire to rear a cloned animal anway? isn't much less complicated just to permit animals to procreate clearly? Secondly that path would not look to have labored for flowers yet. whether we've been able to produce meat in abundance, to grant anybody interior the international with the quantity that the international north consumes we'd have diverse issues. maximum of our food come from flowers, so if we in simple terms exported meat, then we'd be exporting heart ailment and diabetes alongside with it. the difficulty isn't in our skill to produce nutrition, that's in our skill to distribute it.

Answer 5

Dude, there will not be world hunger. It's a lie. Sure the statistics extrapolated out over 100 years appears that way, but come on they said stuff like that back in 1906.

Answer 6

There is enough food in the world right now to feed everyone. Economics, business, and governments are the cause of world hunger.

Answer 7

Hmm are cloned humans the answer to medical problems, such as organ transplants? What about blood transfusions? Or taking a sick child to make a copy of a healthy one and then killing the sick one.

Answer 8

There is already enough food in the world to feed everybody.
Political corruption and war is the reason for world hunder.

Answer 9

yes, because they will give us more amount of animals to send over other country's and greatly help peace offerings to hostile nations, once we figure out how to mass produce them it will be a very effective key

Answer 10

No, I'm totally against it. Politics could help feed the world, if we all had that common mission.