Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

[kkat55]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I know that there probably isn't anything wrong with the meat, but just the fact that it is cloned sounds odd and may make me think twice about eating it...

[biogeek]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

As a geneticist, I don't have a problem with it. After all, we've been eating cloned veggies and fruits for years. I have a problem with the hormones they inject into animals passing to humans, but I have turned a blind eye to it over the years. I love beef too much to let a great ribeye or prime rib pass me by.

[loser4life]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I don't like the idea of it. I try to buy everything fresh and organic, no hormones, etc. I only buy eggs that are from grain fed free roaming nesting hens. I don't really care for the way the majority of "food" is raised anymore... I don't know enough about it to say but I kinda dont' like the idea of cloning in general...

[Analog6]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I don't have much of a problem with cloning per se, it is just another method of reproduction. It is all the hormones and genetic engineering that I don't like.

Take Canola. This was engineered from plain old rapeseed, which was always a stockfeed only, because only ruminants could digest it. And not a very glam name, either! So what did they do, engineered it (Lord knows how) and now it is supposed to be you beaut and fit for human consumption. Sorry, I just don't buy it (literally and metaphotically). It actually gives me a horrible sort of reflux/indigestion response, very uncomfortable.

And yes, it is thought that it is all the growth hormones fed to animals, particulaly poultry, which is partly responsible for earlier onset of puberty in boys and girls, and menarche in young girls.

I can't always afford organic but I'm as careful as I can be of what I put in my system.

[ztachick]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I think its a bit strange
i dont think id want to eat a
cloned animal ...
kinda scares me..lol

[LC_Dave]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

What I don't like is the lack of choice. The thread title asks a question, but will we don't really have a choice.

Will this cloned meat go into all sorts of products?

I don't live in the USA. I have no democratic right to vote there. But this decision will affect me and things I put into my mouth, down to imported foods to American pressure on our Government to do cloning (and they will fold easily to that pressure).

What scares me is not this first step, but where will this lead ?
I bet when someone said 100 or so years ago "Hey let's put sugar in this product", nobody would have thought the flood gates would be open to the obesity epidemic we have today!

[Miss Phode]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I might be crazy, but didn't they find out the doc in Korea who was supposedly the cloning master was a fraud?

Or am I thinking of something else?

[biogeek]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

Yeah, he was a fraud. :/ He puts all researchers in a bad light.

[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

Wow, who drug up this ol' thread?

I still say I'd eat cloned meat, what's the difference? Hey, maybe it'd even be cheaper! Then I could have my ribeye's twice a week instead of just once! Yummie!

[Peytonn]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I would... wouldn' t matter to me at all.... can't see why it should matter..

[Analog6]

Re: Would you eat the meat from cloned animals?

I might be crazy, but didn't they find out the doc in Korea who was supposedly the cloning master was a fraud?

Or am I thinking of something else?

Apparently, he just lucked out on one vital stage, didn't know how they had done it, and fudged the results in the research papers. They did produce a cloned Afghan hound (I have heard it said, how could they tell, Afghans are so stupid!) but no one can replicate the method because they fudged up this vital step. The team;s fraud was discivered when another loit of scientists tried to replicate the work.

Ooops!