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The world's biggest animal cloning factory is being built in China to churn out dogs, horses and cows.

China 'will clone one million cattle a year': New £20m plant aims to tackle shortages and will also develop police dogs and racehorses on an industrial scale

  • But social media users expressed scepticism over appetite for cloned meat
  • The world's biggest animal cloning factory is currently being built in China
  • £20million plant will churn out dogs, horses and a million beef cattle a year
  • Head of one of its co-founders said factory would start production in 2016

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The world's biggest animal cloning factory is being built in China to churn out dogs, horses and a million beef cattle a year.

The £20million plant will develop pets, police dogs, racehorses and cows to be sold on an industrial scale.

Xu Xiaochun, head of one of its co-founders, the Chinese biotechnology firm Boyalife, said the factory in the northern port of Tianjin would start production next year.

He added: 'Chinese farmers are struggling to produce enough beef cattle to meet market demand.'

But social media users expressed scepticism over the appetite for cloned meat, and pointed out that China was plagued with food safety scandals. One said: 'Please make our leaders eat it first.

Another wrote sarcastically: 'This beef definitely must first be saved just for the central government leaders; only after they and their families have eaten it for 10 years should they deign to give it to us, the people! Really can't wait!'

Many worried about the ethics of the venture.

'Is cloning even legal?' asked one.

'Insane. There are already enough stray dogs at the moment, so many that the unclaimed ones are euthanised. What will be done with so many more?' wondered another.

South Korea’s Sooam Biotech, which is also involved in the venture, is run by Hwang Woo-suk.

He claimed in 2004 to have derived stem-cell lines from cloned human embryos, a world first, and was lauded as a national hero in South Korea before it emerged that his research was fraudulent and riddled with ethical lapses.

Sooam's website lists instructions for what potential customers should do if they want to clone a dead pet dog.

A joint venture between Sooam and Boyalife started China's commercial cloning market last year, Xinhua said, cloning three pure-blooded Tibetan mastiff puppies.

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The eating advantage, is that in traditional breeding, when you get a fast growing, efficient, tasty animal, it takes generations to breed those characteristics back into the breed, so that all the little'uns are of the desirable kind. With cloning that's quicker, assuming they've conquered the breeding viability issue with the clones.

 

If they're only using cloning as a mass producing mechanism, then there's very little gain over normally pregnantised animals.

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Chinese don't care what it is they just want to mass produce....except for mouths to feed.

 

China is one of the world's largest auction markets, generating billions of dollars each year. And its ultra-wealthy are cashing in on the world of quick returns.

But not everyone is a winner.

An insatiable appetite for ancient ceramics is feeding a dark underbelly. More than ever before, counterfeits are flooding the market, fooling even the experts.

From the rolling hills of China's archaeological sites, to the kilns of master forgers and the private museums of the country's super rich, 101 East explores the world of Chinese antiques and asks, will human greed destroy an ancient heritage?

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2015/11/china-fake-antiques-151125104456921.html

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The day is coming. Expect something like the 'Rape of the Sabine Women' to strike Hong Kong and Macau.

 

Why Chinese men are the most single in the world: the perils of gender imbalance in China

 

Elsewhere in the world, nature is usually allowed to run its course. Sure, birth control, abortion and contraceptives are already common topics in the developed world and everybody uses them, but China is a whole different beast altogether. You might have heard about the country’s one child policy. Following the second world war, China’s population simply exploded. By 1978, the issue was out of control so the government enacted one of the cruelest and immoral social policies ever imagined in human history. Couples were suddenly forced not to birth more than a child. What happened if they had a second one, you ask? The baby had to be "disposed" of, by any means necessary.

 

 

Traditionally, Chinese culture puts great value on boys, while girls are shun off. Together with the one-child policy, this means that a couple only had one chance to have a boy. Because of this cultural norm that places a premium on boys, the policy’s victims also included first-conceived children simply because they happened to be girls.

 

For over three decades, China’s One-Child Policy has condemned approximately 37 million Chinese girls – who the policy helped deem unwanted or “surplus†– to abortion, infanticide, abandonment and human trafficking. This is besides the estimated 400,000,000 abortions (boys or girls) which were made since the criminal policy was enacted. But not all Chinese parents are monsters. When a second or even third child was made, some found ways to keep them hidden, but these children’s lives aren’t easy.

 

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