Do we eat cloned food?

Answer 1

God I hope not.

Answer 2

Cloning means taking cells from an animal or plant and using the DNA to create a duplicate. Cloning is expensive and is very much experimental. Some people say that things are genetically altered but few foods are altered much by the transfer of genetically altered foods, again cost prohibitive. What is done is that new strains of animals and plants are cross bred to eliminate certain diseases, improve size or quality. Cross breeding goes back to Mendel and Luther Burbank and has developed produced a type of Rice called "Miracle Rice" that grows rapidly enough to be able to produce three crops a year instead of two. Most flowers and vegetables are very different from the original wild plants such as spineless prickly pear cactus that can be eaten by cattle. The definition of a genetically altered cell is when the DNA strand or certain genes are changed or parts destroyed, but cross-breeding is simply an exchange of genes and the resultant seed or animal has some of the characteristics of both the male and female parent. Cross-breeding may also result in hybrids that are usually incapable of reproducing..i.e. a mule. Usually we work on a chart using probabilities of the end result and can apply this to known genetic characteristics, dominant or recessive...blue eyes are recessive and given enough time, there will be no more blue-eyed people. It is time consuming and the search for a white marigold ( a mutant) but such has been found and will be cross bred with regular marigolds to build up seed stock. So specific terms are needed to understand the processes in producint. McDonald's developed a very large cucumber so that a hamburger needs a single slice of pickle, not three or four. In Japan, square or actually cubically-shaped water melons were developed to allow them to be packed in boxes for ease in handle. We want to make your food better, more delicious and healthy.

Answer 3

NOT in the strictest sense of the word, we eat genetically modified fruit, and vegetables, if you take breed selection, by careful matching of a type of animal, for example pork, the pig has been altered from the original wild boar to the longrace pig, all have come from particular types of wild boar, it has been the same with many fruits apples are an example tesco are now selling the heritage variety which is a selection of english eating apples that have contributed to the marketable desease resistant varieties that you normally would find instore. dont be led down the garden path over the word cloned, ask yourself this question, why do scientist want to change a variety of wheat for example, by careful manipulation of the genes of the plant they can produce a variety of wheat that is resistant to desease, specific to the requirements of the consumer. the farmer who , produces such wheat gets more wheat per acre, thus using less land to produce more crop from with rising populations in almost all countries around the world, how do we feed them at a price they can afford to pay, the third world debt is a burden not just on the borrower but on the lender, we pay more in tax because of it, LF

Answer 4

In a sense we do eat cloned food...Cloning mean to make a copy of the original so I would think that every time a seed from a plant is sown and reproduces or an animal is bred for food, they are just copies of the original!

We know that food industry spends billion on research and development to make the original product grow bigger and faster...Hyper-Cloning!

Just a thought!

Answer 5

not yet (give 'em time) but alot of what americans eat is tainted. the fruits and vegetables are genetically enhanced (buy organic) which our government says is safe, but europe wont sell our produce because they say it's not. most of our beef and poultry are given growth hormones and feed unnatural diets (feeding beef food with beef blood has been fingered as the cause of mad cow disease) which probably accounts for the average height today being a foot more than a century ago, when most evolution is to smaller. plus most meat is artificially insemenated, we've breed thw turkey into such an abomination that it can no longer breed naturally. it's too top heavy to mount the female to inseminate her.this is some truly scary stuff, but you'll find when you research it i'm only scratching the surface.

Answer 6

I know we eat genetically altered food with tons of preservatives and bad chemicals. Just one reason why so many people are getting sick now days.