LAist: Would You Eat Cloned Beef?

spoon

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:40:16 -0800

Yeah, cause the FDA and the beef people have never messed up. Except for those people that got mad cow...Can we just let the animals eat grass and leave the food alone? This is a bad idea

Marshall

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:54:22 -0800

It's just meat - my digestive system is going to break it down into the same nutrients and molecules, isn't it? Why not. Anyone who looks at cows, chickens or other farm animals and can't see that we've been playing with their genetics for thousands of years is missing the point. We're now more capable of controlling and being smart about what our species has been doing in an uncontrolled and thoughtless way since the dawn of agriculture.

christina

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:03:59 -0800

well i don't eat beef, but if i did, i would NOT want to be eating cloned beef. to me, it's just wrong and i would venture to guess some years down the line, scientists will discover it was bad for people to consume after all. hell to the no.

Elise Thompson

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:06:29 -0800

I am less concerned about human cloning - it would be expensive, rare and creepy. But the cattle industry are the ones who brought us mad cow. I don't trust that for the sake of a buck we wouldn't end up with lack of variety of the species. If they inbreed cattle from the same small pool of cloned donors, you will have one-eyed cows, or at least hemophiliac cows without any in the species that are naturally resistant to some random disease.

G Pro

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:52:50 -0800

Re: scientists in San Diego just announced that they have produced embryos that are clones of two men. Ever see "The Boys From Brazil"?............

db

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:24:20 -0800

My biggest problem is that labeling isn't required. According to the story I read, the FDA may allow non-cloned animals as being labeled as such. I suspect cloning will be used to extend patents to meat, much as it's being done with some seeds. In any case, this paragraph about epigenetic changes in some clones particularly jumped out at me: In the end, facing the reality that epigenetics have never been a factor in assessing the wholesomeness of food, agency scientists decided to use the same simple but effective standard used by farmers since the dawn of agriculture: If a farm animal appears in all respects to be healthy, then presume that food from that animal is safe to eat. So, the FDS is with Andrew Zimmern: If it looks good, eat it!

Carrie Meathrell

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:17:56 -0800

did you just say what I think you said?

Anti

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:07:17 -0800

i smoke cloned weed, i dont see why i wouldnt smoke cloned beef.