Will cloned meat save the world from hunger?

United States
December 29, 2006 8:26am CST
I'm a vegetarian for many reasons, but this idea intrigues me. I believe if we raised more crops rather than livestock the world's hunger would decrease, but will this cloning of animals for consumption help? Will we share the technology? Will it freak you out not knowing if your meat was cloned or not?
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@nuffsed (1271)
29 Dec 06
I do not believe that we need to eat cattle or sheep to survive. We would be better served by technology that could "digest" and "convert" the vegetable material with much less energy input and conversion waste. There are already plants capable of growing meat as a culture in sheet form. Large herds of (burger) cattle are a major contributor to greenhouse gases, and a source of soil depletion.
• Pakistan
30 Dec 06
ya he is talking very right
• Pakistan
30 Dec 06
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• United States
29 Dec 06
It would be the same as inbreeding animals, the duplicate of the duplicate, etc will eventually lead to some very bad genes. A copy of a copy is never as good as the original
@pendragon (3350)
• United States
29 Dec 06
It's gross to think about, I've heard they want to try for just the meat, and not worry whether the creature will have a head or feet, etc, no I don't believe in creating life just for fuel.
• United States
30 Dec 06
I had not heard this part of it yet. Very interesting. I'm not sure how I feel about this. If it has no head, therefore no brain, can it feel pain? Does it have a soul?
• India
30 Dec 06
yes to some extent
• India
30 Dec 06
I am too veg so this problem doesn't concern me.
• United States
30 Dec 06
Interesting. Most people who are vegetarian are more concerned about what goes on in the rest of the world.
• India
30 Dec 06
certainly not. cos it is not exactly less food that is killing people, but the fact that they simply can't aford it. it is the poverty that kills people. so i pretty well guess that is is the answer
• Australia
30 Dec 06
this is very true. Not being able to afford food or seed for food is the reason people are going hungry. It's not just in so called third world countries. In the rich countries there are also third world streets, towns, suburbs and the like. There is hunger rite near you.
• India
29 Dec 06
i m also a veggie , look u know 10% rule, if u r a biology student u should know. it is like this - consider a food chain - grassdeerlion. 10% of total energy of grass goes to deer. 10% of deer's enery goes to lion. the point is this if v eat vegetables than v save lots of energy.
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
29 Dec 06
Yes I think it would. Think about if you were actually starving and had no means to get any food. Wouldn't you accept anything edible from anyone to stop the hunger pains? I think this will help the truly starving people of the world.
@lulylove (1560)
• Brazil
29 Dec 06
I credit that the clonagem of animals will contribute to minimize the hunger in the world. If the meat of an animal to contain same the nutrients and badly not to make no person who consumes it, why not to use to feed people who live in countries where exists hunger?
• India
29 Dec 06
great discussion ya i think its a good thought
@uvacerba (427)
• Italy
30 Dec 06
I do not know if the arne that I eat he is clonata but to ago eat verdure however piu well of the meat. .hello
• India
29 Dec 06
Friend even todays vegetable are not hygenic you think it is hygenic no certainly not.urea is used in all the vegetables for growing more vegetables they use urea government gave permission for that nothing is pure so meat is not a concern
• United States
29 Dec 06
Thats really funny I dont know.
@dontataru (244)
• Romania
29 Dec 06
NO...only we can save this world...if we will change our way to live..and if we will have much respect for Terra
• Philippines
29 Dec 06
it might, hungry people would eat anything ang everything. since experts are focusing on producing food as much as possible by any means, like genetically produced crops which is widely used. but personally i don't think i could eat such, i'm rather choosy of what i eat, i even try to avoid junk food and try to eat healthy food.