As far as the human clone goes I doubt it will ever come to pass in an industrial way. That said, I think that as long as the base material is considerd property of the individual it comes from then cloning should not be a problem. At least a wide spead one anyhow. You would be right if they grew a full clone. However if they didnt then it is a differernt story. Its still property so long as it doesnt achieve consiousness. which means basically theres no brain.
As far as what I was talking for the proposed venture, all the animals would provide would be genetic base material. There might be some live animals but they would be kept for genetic sampling. They would probaly be rotated with ranches to provide a variety of samples. There would be no mink ranch, or steer ranch. They would be kept in a lab setting for access to their genetic material. My friends want to litterally print animal skins and meats. Its not cloning the actuall animals. Why do that when you can just breed them? The technology to do this is expensive, just not as much as you think. The main expense is going to be working the bugs out of the manufacturing process. They want to do leather goods first and get experiance with that process before they move on to the medical skin graft stage. they eventually want to be able grow vat meats as a precurser to growing organs and replacement parts for people. Its acrawl before you walk before you run thing. The heavy regs are gona come from the FDA on the medical and food sides. The leather not so much. One of their cooler ideas was to litterally grow custom fit virtually seamless leather garmets. Imagine a pair of custom fit leather gloves with No seams in them. Or a jacket. I thought that was a cool idea. Not is it cool, its PETA friendly.
I get what your saying but you are still missing the point. Your friends are obviously not familiar with the physiological process of humans or animals.
You said Human Parts or whole humans. Except for some organs an entire human in necessary for this including the brain. There is no other way around it. The brain is necessary for functioning period. Some organs can some day in the future be made without the whole person. the point is money, time, regulator and licensing issues. To be conservative lets say 10-12 years.
Harvesting limbs and other major body parts requires the brain and that makes their idea if realized murder.
Again the animal thing is not viable. For meats you need a brain because you are talking about neulogical impulses to make the meat viable. There just is no other way around it. Animal parts would fall under the same process. Your friends are living in a dream world. OBTW. the use of cloning of feral animals falls under the jurisdiction of the APHIS a part of the Department of Agriculture and the US Fish and wildlife Service a branch of the Dept of the Interior. I know this from experience. the FDA has little to do with it.
I do not want to argue. What you are proposing is Sci-Fi pure and simple and the time and money you would need and the pitfall and regulatory barriers you would have to overcome would make Everest look like a sand castle. It is not well thought out and obviously does not show a fundamental understanding of anatomy and physiology. The levels of sophistication on this are extraordinary and the variables are through the roof. The number of disciplines that would have to be mastered are stagering. No one is that smart.
You are entitled to think and believe as you wish and things like this are probably nice to dream about but the reality of it is not linear and not as simplistic as you or your friends seem to think.
Let me give you a primitive example. I was a wildlife biologist for years. As such I collected skulls for research and i got many of them from rendering and feral animal farms. I was (as all wildlife biologists are) certified in my state to practice wildlife. But that was through the DNR. In order to collect skulls (meat included) from these facilities I had to have a permit from the State Ag Department/ APHIS and The USFWS. The FWS was simple I just had the DNR pass along my credentials. 6 months.
State Ag and APHIS took 18 months just for the head of a dead animal.
You do the math. You are talking about harvesting body parts or whole animals in Fresh condition. As I said in my first post on this, EVEN if you could get to the point you wanted the regs would put a major wrench in it.
I happen to believe these regs are prudent and useful.
So believe what you wish, the reality out there is not what you think. I've been there done that and know many others who have as well.