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“Consumers are going to be having a product that has potential safety issues and has a whole load of ethical issues tied to it, without any labeling,” said Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food Safety.
Originally posted by LeftBehind
What could be so bad? It is basically just an identical twin of the cloned animal.
Originally posted by kickoutthejams
Aren't cloned animals significantly more prone to early death and mutations? Isn't this the main issue we should be concerned, especially as this meat will appear (most likely) in UK and USA stores without any indication it is cloned meat?
Then there's the fact that cloned meat is pumped full of hormones and antibiotics and that cloned animals have very bad immune systems. Could this effect humans through ingestion?
Originally posted by kickoutthejams
early death due to slaughter for market is one thing wolfofwar but early death for unknown reasons in clones is wholly another reason. I'm sure you can see that right?
not to mention the extra issues of mutations, hormones and antibiotics which are already at risky levels in normal meat (the latter two at least)
Originally posted by WolfofWar
Originally posted by kickoutthejams
early death due to slaughter for market is one thing wolfofwar but early death for unknown reasons in clones is wholly another reason. I'm sure you can see that right?
not to mention the extra issues of mutations, hormones and antibiotics which are already at risky levels in normal meat (the latter two at least)
Its not an "unknown" reason. The reason for a clones early death is very much known, and quite simple. For example, in Dolly, she was prematurely aging because the telomeres in her dna, which were taken from an older sheep, were shortened. Which age they decay andshrink, and so her cells, from birth, were that of a four year old sheeps. So while she may have only been 6, she actually genetically was 10.
As for her death, she died from Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma, which is common in sheep that spend theyre lives indoors, like she did.
Theres no mysterious deaths involved, just simple science.