The world’s biggest animal “cloning factory” is due to open in China, producing one million calves a year, sniffer dogs and even genetic copies of the family pet.
The £21 million “commercial” facility will edge the controversial science “closer to mainstream acceptance”, Chinese media said, following the development of a technique which began when Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal when she was born in Scotland in 1996.
The Chinese scientist who led the development of the world’s first cloning factory says he is now ready to replicate humans. His only fear is that the society is not ready to accept this, he told AFP.
The giant cloning facility is set to open within the next seven months, and plans to be cloning 1 million cows a year by 2020. Other animals to be cloned include racehorses and police dogs.
Mr Xu said his new facility will clone racehorses and a handful of dogs for people with “emotional ties” to their pets, but its main focus was producing cattle.
However, he appeared to be more excited about its ability to churn out sniffer dogs. “The dog has to be smart and obedient, strong, sensitive,” he said. “That’s one in one hundred. You would normally have to look at a large number of dogs to find this one.”
The factory, which will include a 15,000 square metre laboratory, an animal centre, a gene bank and an exhibition hall, is currently being built in the port city of Tianjin, near Beijing, and is due to open in the first half of next year.
BoyaLife will operate the facility with its South Korean partner, Sooam Biotech, that runs a centre that can clone dogs for customers willing to pay $100,000 (£66,000), and has already produced more than 550 puppies.
Boyalife is also working with Sooam Biotech Research Foundation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop primate cloning.
And this would mean just one step further – from monkeys – to human cloning, Xu Xiaochun said.
“The technology is already there. If this is allowed, I don’t think there are other companies better than Boyalife that make better technology,” he said.
However, hampering the project are ethical issues: the company says it has to be “self-restrained” to avoid a possible public backlash.
Xu is hopeful that people will change their views and let the research go ahead.
“Unfortunately, currently, the only way to have a child is to have it be half its mum, half its dad. Maybe in the future you have three choices instead of one. You either have fifty-fifty, or you have a choice of having the genetics 100 percent from Daddy or 100 percent from Mummy. This is only a choice,” the 44-year-old chief executive said.
Xu also wants to lift the veil on cloning, and to dispel people’s fears about it.
“We want the public to see that cloning is really not that crazy, that scientists aren’t weird, dressed in lab coats, hiding behind a sealed door doing weird experiments.”
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PROPHECY 47
To Be Forewarned Is To Be Forearmed For Such A Time As This!
April 21, 2001
TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS! I warned what would happen in MY Word when mankind would play God for that is all they can do is play. They don’t understand for this they will pay as they seek to become a God a creator, This God of Creation is going to show them for I will take the very knowledge given to them and turn it against them.
TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS! Be warned when mankind is cloned, they are born without a soul and any creation without a soul is a dangerous thing. For mankind is meant to have a soul, I breathed the breath of life into Adam, but when mankind creates clones of Adam and Eve, I tell you this there will be no breath of life in them. Instead it will be the breath of the soulless one, satan will be the father and evil will be the reward for playing God. These clones will not have the lifespan as MY creation, nor the desire to serve and worship the God “I AM!” These clones will not have a conscience for I am mankind’s conscience of what is right and wrong. These clones will turn on the very creators and on mankind that allows such heinous creatures.
PROPHECY 68
“Mock Me (YAHUVEH) If You Dare!”
December 26, 2002
It is I, YAHUVEH, I will have the last laugh. You have aroused MY ire, you have aroused MY wrath. You say, “I will play GOD” with the knowledge I have given you. You create man in man’s own image, when MY Word says you were created in MY image. You play your games with the weather. Now I shall show you the creator of that weather. Your own clones shall turn against you. Your own inventions shall turn against you. Any weapon that you try and use against MY Children shall boomerang back upon you. For I am judging Sodom and Gomorrah again, I am looking over the face of this world. I know which ones MY angels have sealed and these things shall not befall them.
PROPHECY 84
I, YAHUVEH Say, Beware Of The Illusion!
March 31, 2006
Pray over that food for you’ll not know if it’s cloned or not. Remember, satan wants to counterfeit everything I created. He does it through the name of science. But pray over that food, believe ME, believe that I will protect you. Believe I will put life in a meat that will bless your body and not curse it. For I tell you, cloned meat is a counterfeit sent from Hell, to say, “I can create just as he can create, eat my food its better, I can create a chicken that will not have the bird flu.”
PROPHECY 137
“IMMAYAH’S Lullaby“
August 29, 2016
You have tempted ME and tempted ME, oh enemies of MINE! You have thrown morality back in I, YAHUVEH’S Face! You have even tried to imitate life and animate life! You are not GOD! I shall show you WHO is GOD ALMIGHTY! THERE IS BUT ONE YAH! THERE IS BUT ONE YAHUSHUA! AND THERE IS BUT ONE IMMAYAH, HOLY SPIRIT!