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[shuamort]

Today, the US Government's branch called the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) gave the preliminary go-ahead for Americans to eat cloned animals.

FDA believes "that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day,'' said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine.

So, who wants some Dolly mutton?

 

[Hatuey]

Today, the US Government's branch called the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) gave the preliminary go-ahead for Americans to eat cloned animals.



So, who wants some Dolly mutton?

Only Americans? I think the entire world should adopt this method. Well...it's either that...or we nuke China and India. Global food shortages wouldn't be a concern if we did that.

 

[talloulou]

Is the cloned meat labeled? If not I'm not sure you'll know whether or not you're feasting on repeats. As far as eating it goes I don't know. There use to be tons of material about clones dying younger than their non-cloned counterparts, problems with cellular aging, and problems with weight. But google clone today after this news release and you get 100's of articles about the absolute safety of eating clones and how they are no less healthy than non-clones. But I'm skeptical. It's true I haven't researched clones much lately so there could have been many advancements but it really hasn't been that wrong since I read a bunch of articles about various problems.

 

[talloulou]

Here's a good article.

Cloned Animals on the Dinner Plate? — Food & Water Watch

Personally I'd like to see cloned meat and milk labeled so I can freaking avoid it. There are just way too many unknowns with cloning. The success rate in cloning is very low. There are way too many articles about the clones being sickly or dying young and not all of them are old articles. So yeah uh no way.

 

[Spartacus FPV]

Theres just something cosmically wrong with eating the very same chicken wing twice. What if in my stomach they touch and disrupt the space time continuem?!?

 

[Hatuey]

Theres just something cosmically wrong with eating the very same chicken wing twice. What if in my stomach they touch and disrupt the space time continuem?!?

Omg....I never thought of it that way....How can there be two of you in the same place?

A black whole would form inside of you and the world as we know it would be sucked in through your mouth....swallowing has a whole new meaning when you see it that way.

 

[americanwoman]

I don't know, it just sounds wierd.

 

[tecoyah]

Might solve alot of world problems....and make us a less Obese nation to boot:

""With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply. And you could do it in a way that's better for the environment and human health. In the long term, this is a very feasible idea."

Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland

 

[dragonslayer]

what is the difference between eating meat from a cloned animal or one that is created in the natural fashion. it is all protein, why should I care if my meat is cloned or not cloned. Maybe it can be made to taste better. Isn't modern science wonderful??


Maybe we can get beef, pork, or fowl that has been genetically flavored? abd cooked then all we do is kill and eat. We could be like our ancient ancestors.
We all can just waunder around looking for things to kill with stone spears or an M16. Bush and Cheney would love us. You know how Cheney and Bush love shooting things and making useless war on the world.

 

[rathi]

I loathe the FDA more than perhaps any other government agency, but I will still eat the meat due to my own research and knowledge. I know a couple of guys who do work in this area, and they claim that cloned beef/chicken is not distinguishable from regular unless you do genetic tests. Cloning doesn't have great success rates, but when it does work it doesn't normally have problems.

 

[Kandahar]

Personally I'd like to see cloned meat and milk labeled so I can freaking avoid it. There are just way too many unknowns with cloning. The success rate in cloning is very low. There are way too many articles about the clones being sickly or dying young and not all of them are old articles. So yeah uh no way.

I agree. Cloned foods should be labeled as such...for now, at least. Maybe in the near future, scientists will understand the technology better and be able to eliminate the problems associated with cloning. But until that happens, I think I'll stay away from it.

 

[Kelzie]

Isn't this rather impractical? I mean, didn't Dolly cost an exorbitant amount of money to create? I'm just saying, it still seems a lot more practical make meat the old fashioned way.

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

Only Americans? I think the entire world should adopt this method. ... Global food shortages wouldn't be a concern if we did that.

Cloning won't fix food shortages. It's just another way of producing livestock fetuses; they still have to be gestated, grown and fed, which is what takes the time and resources.

Better technologies for increasing the global food supply. I'm keeping an eye on protatoes and coast-to-coast robotic fish farms to take off as demand for meat increases in China.

 

[1069]

Only Americans? I think the entire world should adopt this method. ... Global food shortages wouldn't be a concern if we did that.

Soy is the answer to global protein shortages; livestock, whether organic or cloned, still have to be fed; the land depleted by growing their feed grain could be better utilized by planting it all in soy for human consumption.

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

Theres just something cosmically wrong with eating the very same chicken wing twice. What if in my stomach they touch and disrupt the space time continuem?!?

That sounds cool. Kinda gives you a completely different persepective on deja vu. :mrgreen:

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

Soy is the answer to global protein shortages;

Soy causes hormonal imbalances. Like the use of bovine growth hormones, it makes food cheaper and more plentiful at the cost of making it less healthy.

 

[Adrian]

Do you suppose there might be long term repercussions to our diet from lack of biodiversity in the cloned livestock?

 

[rathi]

Probably not. The cows would become more likely to wiped out in a single disease, but anything that would survive cooking is unlikely to matter.

 

[Adrian]

Probably not. The cows would become more likely to wiped out in a single disease, but anything that would survive cooking is unlikely to matter.

You're most likely right. Still, the boldfaced part of your statement seems to be a pretty good argument against the cloning of animals for livestock purposes. Besides, isn't this the same problem that agriculture is facing these days? The threat that just one disease could take out the whole banana population or something? By cloning our food sources we would seem to be putting all of our eggs in one basket.

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

Do you suppose there might be long term repercussions to our diet from lack of biodiversity in the cloned livestock?

Seriously doubt it. Our diets do not require diversity, and the difference in chemical composition between any two heads of cattle are negligible. Worst case scenario is a pandemic, but proper diversification of food animals would mean that it would only cause a mild food shortage.

I agree with Adrian that it's a good argument against livestock cloning. That, and cloning prevents the use of selective breeding-- or more direct engineering-- to improve our stock animals.

Progress is good.

 

[Monkey Mind]

Are they cloning fish too, or just land animals? I don't eat any meat except seafood so this doesn't really affect me. If I did eat meat I'd choose organic or something I hunted and killed myself. I wonder if organic certifications will now be updated to prohibit cloning.

The biggest red flag for me on this is biodiversity. It just seems stupid to put all our eggs in one basket by cloning food sources, whether it be cows or vegetables or rice. Better to use genetic engineering in combination with selective breeding. I seriously doubt that any one gene line is so perfect that it would be worth discarding the natural process and eating clones forever. I'm not against cloning per se as a scientific tool, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to rely on clones for food. The animals still need to be gestated and raised, so how does cloning help? Seems like the risks outweigh the benefits.

 

[talloulou]

Seriously doubt it. Our diets do not require diversity

:shock: Yes they do! But you must mean something else. As far as whether it would be hazardous to eat the same genetic cow over and over repeatedly as that's never been done before we don't actually know.