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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The problem is that by making so much of the food base basically identical it means a single disease or parasite could wipe out all the cattle or wheat etc. One theory which I subscribe to for genetic diversity, especially in reproduction is creating new ways to stay ahead of disease and parasites.
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This is exactly what I was thinking as I read this. It would be a disaster to go fifteen years down the road and discover all the bred animals in a particular region die of the same freak disease because the original animal their predecessors were cloned from had a particular genetic flaw.