Would you consume meat or milk from cloned animals? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Bill Wood · #1 12-30-2006, 04:40 PM

The FDA gave preliminary approval this week to meat and milk from cloned animals. Would you eat it?

Brian Carlton · #2 12-30-2006, 07:01 PM

Is there some undue risk from the meat or milk from a cloned animal???

POS · #3 12-30-2006, 07:15 PM

Mmmmm, cloned sheep's brain.

Emmerich · #4 12-30-2006, 07:27 PM

In some other countries, beef is not eaten at all. I guess my point is whats the diff on cloned meat? I would be more worried about how ANY meat is handled/prepared than the animal it came from. Ever been in the kitchen at a Chinese restaurant?

diametricalbenz · #5 12-30-2006, 07:38 PM

I have....but don't forget some very high end restaurants have been red flagged before too.

Zeus · #6 12-30-2006, 07:50 PM

I'm not big on cloning at all. Genetics is in its infancy. We've only recently stumbled upon DNA, Watson and Crick in what, the 60s? We've only just sequenced the human genome. So we've got the sequence, all those ATGCs lined up. So...what do they all do and how are they interconnected - no idea. How do all those proteins they code and produce react with one another. No idea. Just little glimpses.

Now we can clone animals.

It seems we live in an age where the progress of science and technology happens so quickly that we don't have time - or we don't care - to pause and ask WHY we are doing something, or IF we should do something. If we try to pause to think, someone else will already be doing it.

From viruses to pinnacle predators, the planet has evolved in a symbiosis on its own. For the first time, we're directly altering that balance at the level of genes - without really knowing the outcome.

For example's sake - viruses and disease can act to keep populations of animals - say sheep - fit. The fitness of the population is driven by the individual's ability to withstand disease and other potentially fatal environmental factors. If a certain individual's genetics allows for greater fitness, those genes stand to be carried forward, thus increasing the species' fitness down the road, perhaps ultimately driving speciation. So then you take an animal and clone it. Effectively stopping the process of natural selection. You may start off with a strong genetic specimen, but if you continue to clone that individual for food, you do not allow for the evolutionary testing process to continue and the door is open for bad things to happen.

Bad things like a certain virus wiping out an entire cloned population, crashing a food source and potentially having economic and health impacts.

I'm rambling on here, so I'll stop, but it's a topic that really concerns me. Along with overpopulation in certain areas of the planet - combined with rapid global travel - we seem to be setting ourselves up for a virus-borne ass-whoopin' of global proportions.

Better to let the farmer graze his flock in the hills and let things run their course than clone Dolly for the 'Hungry Man' factory, IMO.

That said, I don't expect to see large-scale cloning anytime soon.

I guess my answer then is 'NO'.

Matt SD300 · #7 12-30-2006, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by diametricalbenz

I have....but don't forget some very high end restaurants have been red flagged before too.

Like...Taco Bell...

WANT '71 280SEL · #8 12-30-2006, 08:39 PM

It is not economically wise to use cloned animals for food simply because of the long, arduous, and expensive process it requires. If every single offspring had to be created in a petri dish, mixed with the low success rate, it would not be the best thing to do for a meat producer. I think having the FDA approving it as a food source is more of a publicity thing to show people what CAN be done. I doubt any company would seriously consider this any time soon. However, a researcher operating under a government grant would.

Dubyagee · #9 12-30-2006, 08:43 PM

I dont think the science is understood enough to trust any products from it. I am sure it will imposed on the public without notification.

#10 12-30-2006, 08:55 PM

Yes, without question.

There is no physical difference between an "original" animal and a cloned animal. They are not mutants, they are not unnatural, they are living creatures, they look/act/feel/taste just like their original.

There is absolutely nothing to be afraid of when eating cloned meat.

Larry Delor · #11 12-30-2006, 10:02 PM

Why is it necessary to clone meat in the first place?

#12 12-30-2006, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Larry Delor

Why is it necessary to clone meat in the first place?

Reduce hereditary diseases, increase production yields, and lower costs.

aklim · #13 12-30-2006, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Larry Delor

Why is it necessary to clone meat in the first place?

Why would anyone sell bull semen? Why would you have to pay for a thoroughbred horse to stud another horse? All because you want similar qualities or so you hope. Say you had a prize cow that produced 100 gals of milk a day while others were doing 75. Would it be worth it to clone it? Sure.

PaulC · #14 12-30-2006, 11:47 PM

If there is no genetic difference between the clone and its genetic source, what is the concern?

aklim · #15 12-31-2006, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulC

If there is no genetic difference between the clone and its genetic source, what is the concern?

Because it is not natural? IOW, nature didn't do it so if you eat it, you pen1s might fall off?

Problem is the word "natural" is being used to sell all sorts of snake oil today. Just put the word "natural" in front of it and you will get some buyers. Natural Viagra. Natural Penis Enlargement pills. Well, lead is natural and so is arsenic.

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