Investigative journalist John Woestendiek’s Dog, Inc. makes up for its sloppy writing by revealing the dark side of cloning our furry friends
SNUPPY, the world’s first canine clone, celebrated his first birthday on 24 April 2006 with sausage and ice cream. People brought him flowers and wrapped him in a South Korean flag, yet the mood was hardly festive in the lab at Seoul National University where he was born and raised. Snuppy’s creator, geneticist Woo Suk Hwang, had just been fired by SNU for falsely claiming to have cloned human embryos. Charged with fraud, Hwang plummeted from a national symbol to a prospective criminal.…
