Cloned beef and milk

[McMouse]

It seems a small amount of beef and milk produced by the offspring of cloned embryos may have got into the food chain. Head of the Food Standards Agency says he's satisfied it's safe but what about the ethical issues. I'm thinking going veggie.

[thetruthhurts]

As long as it tastes ok whats the problem?

[McMouse]

I have an aversion to food that has been produced in an unnatural way e.g. cloning or GM. Selective breeding of animals and plants is ok, but anything that could not happen outside a petri dish is not for me.

[Captin Kirk]

These things cannot be controlled. It was always bound to contaminate the food chain and the authorities know this as this is the way they want food to be mass produced in the future to overcome world food shortages with an ever expanding population.

If it gets into the food chain over time they expect the masses will not be concerned about it and accept it as the norm.

[Fullofsorrow]

What are the health implications of cloned food? Or is it deemed safe and will we all become guinea pigs until a new never before heard disease rears it head and is linked to cloned foods?

[jno]

clone food, Butch, or just genetically modified?

[Fullofsorrow]

Does anyone know?

[glasman]

In the US, it's genetically modified food that's been eaten for years. However, their Food and Drug Administration Authority have given the go-ahead for cloned food to be used. There is, I believe, huge opposition to it, however.

[anotheoldgit]

/// they have been eating clone food in the USA for years.///

Yes, and look what happened to them.

[Fullofsorrow]

I must admit that made me laugh anotheroldgit.

[jno]

it means if you have a steak that's so delicious you wish they could all be that good... well, now they can, and all from the same cow.

[Fullofsorrow]

Agreed jno. We live in the "Get it now and ignore the consenquences and pay later which will never come" society.

[Fullofsorrow]

Whilst we're on the subject of beef which is the better Angus beef or kobe beef? Have any of you tasted both?

[ummmm]

We eat far too much meat anyway. Maybe this will make us re-think our diets.

[Fullofsorrow]

Ummm isn't there cloned crops?

[Admarlow.]

right, a clone is an exact copy of another animal ...i'll say it again A CLONE IS AN EXACT COPY OF ANOTHER ANIMAL, get it,? ok so as long as the source animal was fine, why would the clone be any different, its really not that difficult. Talk about knee jerk, oh wait it was the Mail wasn't it...

[Fullofsorrow]

Admarlow so every atom and dna strand is exactly the same without not one bit of change? I thought this could only be achieved in a mythical teleportation machine.