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Cloned animals and their offspring have been declared safe to eat; their meat will be on sale in the US in months
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30 responses // Cloned animal meat - It's happening now!

  • I'm going veggie!
    hereandnow
  • Oh my!

    That is the most grotesque thing ive heard in a while. I cant believe that cloned meat is safe to eat. Ive been trying to go veggie too. This definitely puts me over the edge.

    PS What does PETA have to say?
    addctd2whticnsay
  • DDT was also deemed safe at one point in time. HELLO!
    sueathome
  • The frightening thing that GM and Cloned foods have in common is the complete lack of long term testing, and the subsequent helplessness to undo any damage.

    Changing the DNA of the stuff at the bottom of the food chain, does not bode well for those at the top (us, crocodiles and lions)

    GM is now so deeply entrenched in our food chain that it will be too late to combat any side-effects if and when they become apparent.

    The fact that they outright said the offspring of cloned animals are not monitored, and that is how they will be accepted into the food chain, regardless of protestation from the public is basically them saying

    'oh, you don't like it? oh well you've been eating it for years sucker, how d'you like them GM apples'

    Chains saturation of the global food market (ahem.. TESCO) means that consumers essentially have no choice, and since agricultural watchdogs and conglomerates have never shown any regard for the best interests of the people or a regard for science as a concept, I think it's safe to say we are as screwed as those two, sorry one cows.
    LMKBerry
  • This is a great idea! it paves the way for a future where people can eat meat without animals suffering. We simply grow lumps of meat in massive petri dishes without spinal chords, brains or nerve endings.
    jonbrooks
  • Hey that is genius. The we can put them in charge of the USA!
    LMKBerry
  • "We are interested in reproducing animals that are at the peak of the genetic pyramid - they are the rock stars of the barnyard."

    How long before the (wo)men in white coats start doing the same to humans???

    (I like being flawed... I don't want anyone to take away the few things that make me an individual.)
    lwhi
  • Wow, guess you can eat the exact same burger twice.
    pstuart
  • http://www.slate.com/id/2185655/
    .... if you combined it with the 'clover' - you'd be able to have the exact same cup of coffee afterwards twice too.
    lwhi
  • http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1313444,00...
    Woo hoo! Sniffer dogs for dinner!

    (Links to: World's first cloned sniffer dogs report for training)
    richjm
  • hmmmmmmmmmmm... fun discussion in the Philosophy of Carnivorous and Cloneiverous Tendencies....

    **insert witty and cleaver dialog here
    drewthepooh
  • Commercially unsustainable - it is far more costly to produce cloned animals than to obtain them through natural reproduction. Who will pay $100 for a steak when they can get one for $5 or less? Anyway, what with the food crisis and with corn and other crops being diverted for biofuels instead of being used for food and fodder, meat will gradually become obsolete.
    Vierotchka
  • I would like to believe that meat would become obsolete what with all the corn going to ethanol, I wish it were that simple. But people want more meat, and meat consumption in developing countries has risen, and if there's anything the post-modern world has taught us, its that if we want something, there is nothing we won't destroy to have our way.
    Kati_kat
  • COME ON! We love rDNA Milk, got it?, this is just another step for been efficient and maximising profit, predictability, consistency of product. I just hope they keep genetic anomalies checked.
    hyperbrand
  • I see this as one more step towards the inevitability of Soylent Green.... mmmmm Soylent Green *drools*
    rabidlemur
  • It's definitely one more step towards something. I just hope we can stop soon enough along to say, "Hey, something ain't right here man. Let's go this way instead."
    guntown_kid82
  • I don't feel right about this. It doesn't seem right to produce more meat for money. How much more money? Do you think that this is a way to say that we are animals?

    We are animals!
    dontipo
  • i'm never sure about this crap - it would seem that some companies just want to make filet mignon cheaper , and boost profits . black angus used to be pricey - now fast food hamburgers can be had made of ground black angus beef . what's next - kobe prime filet hot dogs ? at what point does "luxury" turn into something so commonplace that consumer apathy creates a market for the kind of novelty which only engineering lab grown dinosaur meat can satisfy - and what then ?
    malathion
  • Personally, I just don't find it to be appetizing in the slightest.
    No thank you.

    The "hunks of meat grown in petri dishes" thing is even more...unappetizing.
    What's the point of eating steak if it never felt the sun on its face, never felt the satisfaction of a full stomach or a good sh*t?
    I don't eat meat all that often; when I indulge myself, I want it to be an actual indulgence.

    Overall, the idea of it seems bland and quite possibly dangerous.
    Humdrum
  • meat is meat and i love it no matter what. if it comes down to it i'll raise my own cows, pigs, goats, sheep and chickens. i loves me meat
    diode
  • yea thats really going to give me more of a great feeling when i bite into my cloned chicken pizza.

    hmm, is it going to be cheaper than non-cloned meats?
    localsly
  • Large companies have spent a lot of money cloning meat.... we'll end up with it, whether we like it or not.

    If it looks like a steak, tastes like a steak and is cheaper than a steak.. we'll buy it too.
    lwhi
  • If I can't tell its cloned meat and there won't be any side effects I'll eat it. Though it is awfully un-natural.
    ipodrulz
  • the test tube meat is a much better idea...
    if you get past the creepiness.
    innocent_criminal
  • This just invokes so many movie references: The Matrix, The Island, even Napoleon Dynamite. Born to be slaughtered. It's kind of sickening... although not much different from the natural system.
    StuntBunny
  • I think there is way too much of a freaked out mindset going on here.

    Cells clone all the time. They keep doing it from an egg up until a baby animal comes out. Neat huh?

    So can someone tell me what the difference is? Labs are even often sterilized areas.

    Bring on the cloned meat!

    Hopefully it will taste like, well like chicken.
    komodai
  • eew.

    why don't they just clone the meat and leave the animals alone...
    brightdivine
  • Ever get the feeling you're a guinea pig?
    Elligirl
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_the_sheep
    OK here is the problem in a nut shell. You don't know the DNA will produce Rock Star Barn Yard animals until that little animal grows up. Just like you don't know that little baby girl is really super model material until she passes puberty. DNA strands degrade every time they replicate (mitosis), and this is why we grow old. If they use the DNA from an older animal it is essentially old DNA. So when that cloned cow gets old enough to slaughter yes it might have a bigger hind quarter or leaner loins but its like old cow. "Yes butcher please I don't want that young strong healthy cow, no no no I want the old granny with a big butt". Just check out Dolly the first cloned sheep that got a bad case of arthritis when she was only five.
    krystahardin
  • That's interesting. I hadn't heard that as a likely outcome to cloning samples.

    More or less what I am saying is that I am not instantly worried about eating cloned meat on the basis that it is cloned.

    If our current or future scientific methods cannot produce a way to clone healthy and viable livestock, then there is no point in pursuing this.

    As with most things, the profitability or indirect conservation bonus is going to have to win out between raising animals as they are now and the costs of test tubing them.
    komodai

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