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FDA to allow the Eating of Clones
FDA to allow the Eating of Clones
Mmm...pass the cloned milk, would you honey? picked by rogue 3 years ago
tags clones eating food cloning
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 icepigs
3 years ago
Consumer groups counter that many Americans are likely to be revolted by the idea of serving clone milk to their children or tossing meat from the progeny of clones onto the backyard grill.
The Meat/Dairy industry will come up with a new term for the "cloned" animals....and 99% of the people will buy this discounted meat and never know what they are eating.
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 pwnage24
3 years ago
i dont see the problem with eating cloned meat....where is the yuck factor? i mean they used clones in star wars :-p
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 TheBlueF...
3 years ago
People are scared of clones because they do not understand the science behind it. When they hear clones, they think of a copy of someone who is the same age, with all of their memories intact, which is in no way true. For that matter people also disregard the impact of your environment on your personality. You could probably clone Hitler and end up with a perfectly normal person, there wasn't something inherently evil about him, but events in his life shaped him into what he ended up being.

When scientists clone an animal, as in the case of Dolly the sheep, they take an unfertilized egg, and remove the nucleus, which contains most of the genetic material that the mother contributes. They then replace it with the nucleus of a cell from the donor animal (practically any type of cell can be used). After implantation of the genetic material, the egg is stimulated with chemicals or electricity and fooled into dividing without being inseminated. Also some of the genetic material from other parts of the egg (mitochondria) are still contributed to the offspring, which adds up to being 0.01% of the offspring's DNA.

Essentially the cloned animal is just like a twin to the donor animal. There's really not that much difference from artificial insemination.
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 TheBlueF...
3 years ago
« icepigs : The Meat/Dairy industry will come up with a new term for the "cloned" animals....and 99% of the people will buy this discounted meat and never know what they are eating.
Check out this part of the Wikipedia article on cloning, which talks about a process used on cattle now:

Quoth the Wiki: During the first several divisions of a fertilized egg, no differentiation occurs and the cells can be separated without harm, but each will grow into an identical individual. This process has been used on cattle for decades to produce hundreds of identical individuals in some cases. This process is not considered cloning, but is called budding. The new individual is not derived from a differentiated cell, but from an undifferentiated egg. There is no way to determine which are the clones and which is the original.
I'd bet it would be hard to find a person who has not eaten some meat on which that process was used.
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 ieldanth
3 years ago
Anyone want an ice cream clone?
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