The trouble with...
The trouble with technologies like cloning and GMOs is that they are misplaced, not that they are inherently bad.
Take the example of genetically modified crops of the type about which the "birkenstock crowd" is all up in arms. Let's face it, we've been "modifying genetics" of crops since Mendel, and one risks being a luddite to oppose the most modern version.
However, because GMO research is funded by Monsanto (rather than the public sector), the aim is not to make crops that are resistant to various blights and pests, but to make crops that can handle the poisons that the research funders wish to foist upon the American public.
As in the case here, cloning is not considered as a way of saving some endangered species, but as an excuse to trash the environment.
