In a fairly worrying bit of news, cloning in China is taking a new turn, as the Asian economic giant has just announced it's building a new animal cloning factory, the biggest in the world so far costing millions of dollars to make, just as discussions all over the planet wonder about the ethical implications of this endeavor.

The Asian nation has announced they're building a cloning China factory costing 200 million yuan (more than $31 million) to commercially clone animals for the purpose of meat-producing, in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area, a business area roughly 100 miles away from Beijing and sponsored by the State to promote entrepreneurship.

The Guardian recently spoke to Xu Xiaochun, the chief executive of the company behind this new cloning China facility, BoyaLife, who discussed the reasoning behind this major endeavor, as they claim their new project, which will hopefully provide 5 percent of the meat eaten in the massive Asian country, should "save species" from extinction.

"We are going [down] a path that no one has ever travelled," Xiaochun told the British outlet last week, when the first plans of the cloning China plant were revealed. "We are building something that has not existed in the past."

As Vice reports, just as with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the consumption of cloned meat has become a hot topic in ethics in the past few years, as there have been opposite ends of the discussion, with the European Parliament recently voting to outlaw selling cloned livestock while America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said the practice poses no complications.

The new cloning China experiment will perhaps shed some light into the process in the next few years, deciding whether or not this is a feasible (and ethical) future for the meats industry.

According to Tech Times, the cloning China facility, which is set to begin working next year, will also be cloning racehorses and sniffer drugs for drug operations.