The cloning methods may not be novel – but the application of mass production is
– China cloning on an ‘industrial scale’ (BBC News, Jan 14, 2014):
You hear the squeals of the pigs long before reaching a set of long buildings set in rolling hills in southern China.
Feeding time produces a frenzy as the animals strain against the railings around their pens. But this is no ordinary farm.
Run by a fast-growing company called BGI, this facility has become the world’s largest centre for the cloning of pigs.