Would You Like Fries With Your Clone?

what about the hormones used when impregnating the surrogate and the fact that many are born with compromised immune systems requiring treatment with antibiotics and the use of 6-DMAP? I don't want to feed this to my family. I want the cloned meat to be labeled so I can choose what I want to buy for my family.

NOT A COMMENT>>JUST AN OPINION
If the US ag. communty hadn't developed the cereal crop we now count on, where would the world be now?
We had the same hue and cry over preservation IE, canning, Homogenization, radiation and now cloning'
Therre are times when I think the human race is headed for extinction..

I have a huge problem with animals suffering just so humans can eat meat that we don't even need to eat! For the good of all creatures and the environment, humans should become vegetarians. Cloning animals is just another horrible injustice perpetrated on animals!

Bottom line- the fries are much worse for you than the meat

I think putting cloned meat into the food chain is the stupidist thing in the world. My great garndfather said this country would destroy itself once we started to rely on cloned meat and crops.

I don't think this is the best idea!

Cloning is essentially asexual reproduction, and will inherently lead to genetic mutations. The real issue is not so much with the cloning of an animal, but with the cloning of a clone.

Without a pair of parents each successive generation will not have the ability to repair genetic mutations by having redundancy in its gene pool. Mutations caused by human created or random environmental elements will compound over time, with unknowable results. In addition as a byproduct of trading short term profits for genetic diversity, biodiversity will be rapidly lost, leaving our food chain vulnerable to disease.

On a more terrifying level, if certain clone trees were to rise to dominance it would seem feasible to identify genetic vulnerabilities inherent in the root stock and then bioengineer a viral weapon to attack them.

The reference to acquired mental retardation is a bad omen, because it clearly indicates the process is not exact, but merely a very close approximation. While the differences may be minute, when they become compounded over time, not only will we get unexpected results, I suspect we will rapidly get entirely new species.

The ranchers don't want to sell more expensive cows. Consumers want more expensive cows. We want safe meat and use antibiotics and we call foul. If mad cow spread throughout the US we would be the same ones blaming our government for not protecting us. We want diamonds at lower prices, so you have blood diamonds. We want big suv's and only one or two people ever drive them and complain about fuel and greenhouse effects. we are our own contradiction.

I think this is invaluable research but to serve cloned meat to the public so soon may be not such an "invaluable" idea. But here is a good idea- if it is " so safe"- never mind the cost factor- lets let the FDA and govt. feed it to themselves and their family for 20 years for free- and if there are no complications or adverse effects- then we will deem it safe for the public consumption. Sounds like a plan- R Cooper

I am much more concerned about what is injected or fed to a calf/cow than how it's grandparents were concieved. I see no reason to avoid the products derived from a cloned lineage alone.
P.S. watercop, guys like you are what I want to avoid.................

Wait a minute... Did I miss something? When did cows and bulls, or chickens and roosters, or pigs suddenly go on a sex strike? Can't they make offspring the old fashioned way anymore? Why not just play some Barry White for them, and let them do what comes naturally? Why the need to clone for food? Have we become so Puritanical that even animals can't "do it" anymore?

The scientific and ethical ignorance of the general populace sometimes amazes me. The assembly line production of top-line meat animals is a triumph of reason, science and capitalism. This is wonderful news. As for those who are opposed, let them grub for roots and nuts.

This about sums it up I reckon, have we learned nothing from it?


Classic image of a cow with BSE. A notable feature of such disease is the inability of the infected animal to stand.
Source: APHIS

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle, that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. BSE has a long incubation period, about 4 years, usually affecting adult cattle at a peak age onset of four to five years, all breeds being equally susceptible. [1] In the United Kingdom, the country worst affected, 179,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million killed as a precaution.[2]
It is believed, but not proven, that the disease may be transmitted to human beings who eat infected carcasses.[3] In humans, it is known as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD or nvCJD), and by June 2007, it had killed 165 people in Britain, and six elsewhere[4] with the number expected to rise because of the disease's long incubation period.[citation needed] Between 460,000 and 482,000 BSE-infected animals had entered the human food chain before controls on high-risk offal were introduced in 1989.[5]
A British inquiry into BSE concluded that the epidemic was caused by feeding cattle, who are normally herbivores, the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM), which caused the infectious agent to spread.[6][7] The origin of the disease itself remains unknown. The infectious agent is distinctive for the high temperatures at which it remains viable; this contributed to the spread of the disease in Britain, which had reduced the temperatures used during its rendering process.[6] Another contributory factor was the feeding of infected protein supplements to very young calves.[6][8]

There is absolutely no reason to believe that the cloned food supply is defiecient in any way. The tests preformed all have been very through, since no matter what you might think, the government does not want to kill of a majority of its population. Technology has come a long way, so if you want to believe the meat is "messed up," preform the tests yourself.

Unless you want to test the cloned foods yourself, accept the food agencies' word. Technology has come a long way, enough so that cloning is not a dream in the future any more.Since there is hardly any reason to believe otherwise, just eat the meat, whether it is cloned or not.