Ready for Cloned Meat?

United States
March 23, 2008 2:17pm CST
What’s the Beef? Cloning is not the same as genetic engineering, which involves altering, adding, or deleting specific segments of DNA or genes to produce a plant or animal that has particular traits, such as greater resistance to certain diseases. Clones are genetic replicas of a donor animal. In a sense, the clone and the donor are twins, but the clone is born after its donor. In other words, cloning does not change the gene sequence, but replicates it. So there is no genetic reason why the meat or milk would be different than that of the donor animal. How do you feel about eating cloned meat? http://www.lifescript.com/channels/food_nutrition/food_for_thought/ready_for_cloned_meat.asp?utm_campaign=2008-03-23&utm_source=healthy-advantage&utm_medium=email&utm_content=healthy-well-wise_ready-for-cloned-meat&FromNL=1
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Lakota12
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
28 Mar 08
after they kill it for us to eat how do we or they know which is which then if that makes them twins might be a whole lot better than meat al ljacked up with steroids to grow fast.
whiteheather39
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
28 Mar 08
What a good thought and so true.
Nushka
@Nushka (75)
• Argentina
24 Mar 08
I would feed stupid because it would be much more expensive than regular meat. We don't need to clon animals to eat them. We can just breed them.
Stormy
@Little_Stormy (6883)
• United States
24 Mar 08
Sure I would! it's right up there with living as close as ya can to the nuclear plant! *showing off the extra thumbs that I grew yesterday!* :) that is about disgusting! I'm glad I no longer eat meat.. I never did like milk (this why I break bones so easy!lol!) and cheese... I can live without!
jpso138
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
24 Mar 08
Well, I don't see any problem with that. For as long as they eat the same thing with the normal animals. What I care more about are the foods that they eat since this will probably affect their development and muscle structure. There could be a possibility that the chemicals they eat in the food can be passed to us. Though I am not sure if I am right, but it pays to be careful.