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Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« on: December 28, 2006, 02:00:42 PM »
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/28/cloned.food.ap/index.html

Question for those more knowledgeable on this subject than me: Could there be any specific health concerns or risks in eating food from cloned animals?
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2006, 02:17:36 PM »
Disclaimer: I have a few college microbiology classes under my belt. Nothing more.

That being said, I would not hesitate to eat cloned meat. Residents of the USA have been eating food made from genetically modified organisms for years now. Not a single health problem has been detected and GMOs have gone through extensive FDA testing and found as safe as any other foods.

Assuming that the cloning process goes ok, and the animal grows up defect-free, then it is identical to any other animal of that species.
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2006, 02:38:37 PM »
Its alot like having an identical twin, or triplet, or quadruplets, etc.
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2006, 02:48:43 PM »
If it tasted good...
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2006, 03:37:20 PM »
Fundy:  Perversion!  Abomination!  Away with the devil-meat!! 

Tin-foil Lefty:  I'm not eatin' that Franken-food, man, I don't know what Bush did to it!

For once I'm a moderate.  OK, OK, I've never heard any objections to GMO food from my fellow fundies. 
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2006, 06:30:00 PM »
Make mine medium rare. Moooo!

Health concerns? none.The animals (and most plants for that matter) have gone through 100s ofyears if not millenia of selective and crossbreeding to get the forms we have today- quite different than their original forms. A clone is nothing more than a copy of what is already here.

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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2006, 06:45:43 PM »
We already eat tons of cloned plants... no big difference to me.
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2006, 06:46:49 PM »
If the meat was particularly good, I'd ask for a second helping, and request that it be from the same animal.
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2006, 07:48:18 PM »
Pass the clonesauce...

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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2006, 10:02:50 PM »
This could lead to deep philosophical questions such as: Which came first, the chicken or the chicken?

Did anyone else flash on Gary Larson's Far Side take on "The Boneless Chicken Ranch"?   grin
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2006, 03:11:27 AM »
As long as it sizzles on the fire like any other meat.
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2006, 04:35:27 AM »
I'd support clear labeling laws.  Give me the opportunity to opt out should I have an objection.
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2006, 04:38:22 AM »
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2006, 04:44:51 AM »
Sure.  I hope they start cloning tasty animals.  smiley
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Re: Would you eat meat from a cloned animal?
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2006, 09:47:02 AM »
A cloneburger?  Sure.  Is it a two-for-one deal?
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