Brainless Clones?

OK, I usually don't like to post things from SLASHDOT, since a lot of the articles there are sort of OUT THERE .. but I'll make an exception for this one.

According to the article list today, a company called R3 BIO plans to clone "BRAINLESS REPLICAS" to be used as animal/human backup parts. 

MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey "organ sacks": creating human "brainless clones" or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda.

Imagine if you got your legs destroyed in an auto accident... then (supposely) they could regrow a new you w/o a brain, then "graft the missing body parts back onto you.

If this sounds like an vaguely familiar sci-fi movie, it is. 

In 2005, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johnasson made a rather cheesy movie called The Island where they found out that they are, in fact, clones made for body parts by the original hosts. 

Like R3 BIO, the company in the movie originally tried to grow the clones w/o a brain, but found out that things DID NOT develop correctly w/o it ... they then resorted to secretly growing the clones with a mind, then killing them for the parts.

Let's hope the outcome in this reality turns out differently.