Is Genetic Modification Ethical?
Q: Is it ethical to use, to modify genetically and to breed animals so that their organs may be used for transplantation to humans? Whether the issues are different from those involved in the breeding of animals for food? Whether different issues apply for different animals? There is no difference in the ethics of breeding animals for food as opposed to producing them specifically for organs for transplantation. That is not to say that it is right or wrong, just that when debating ethical considerations over the use of animals it would be illogical to use different criteria for the different uses to which the animal is to be used, given that the fate of the animal in each case is identical (i.e. that it is sacrificed). Turning to the question of genetic modification, there is little difference between this type of creation of new strains and breeding. Though the mechanism for the former is undertaken typically through the addition of new DNA, while the latter is through the generationa
