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The safety of cloned animals as food has not been tested
Why do we need to clone cows?
i don't think its about drinking the milk, i just don't approve of cloning cows!!! or anything for that matter. can we stop trying to "play god"? Humans suck.
No way. I don't want cloned meat. I don't want cloned anything. Even if it does taste the same.
I would never buy milk that I knew was cloned. That's just not natural to me.
Originally posted by PhysicsAdept
reply to post by superman2012
Well quality is not affected, however the main purpose would be quantity. That could possibly help solve some hunger issues. And over time, the cost really is not much different I would assume. After the initial process of doing the actual science involved, the newly cloned animal can lead practically the same life as any other animal, thus not really needing any extra attention.
Originally posted by PhysicsAdept
reply to post by satron
But also, scientists are so restricted to being able to do much cloning research. People are too afraid of what they do not understand. If scientists were given more funding and social acceptance to cloning, just perhaps we could become cloning "experts"
Originally posted by webpirate
I honestly think the issue isn't with the meat so much as "moral" issues from religious groups. We are playing god by creating life. We are all evil, the animals we create are evil and so the meat must also be evil.
If god meant for us to eat cloned meat he would have just made more animals himself.
Originally posted by davereality
LOL. Okay well you guys eat all the cloned meat as possible while I eat the natural stuff. I don't think messing with nature should be done. Let it be how it is. We still don't know the long term effects of cloned animals and many of them die quicker than normal animals. Like I said, I will have my burger from a real cow, you guys go ahead and enjoy the fake stuff.
"There’s no way for the consumer to know whether they’re getting cloned meat or their offspring," said Will Rostov, a senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety, a agricultural advocacy group.