Would you want to know if....?

Question

I was watching TV and they were talking about putting meat on the market from cloned animals and not labeling it. would you want to know if you were eating cloned meat? and would you eat it if you knew that it was cloned?

Answer 1

Yes, I would like to see all genetically manipulated food labeled as such.
One of the issues I have with cloned food products is the inherent problem with cloning; it is the ultimate form of inbreeding. Any cattle producer will tell you that bad traits (sports) passed on by inbreeding cannot be erased in the following generations. In most cases the animals are destroyed or sterilized so they can't pass on the bad genes.

But even inbreeding has some natural controls, an animal that is too damaged will not survive. Not true with cloning. Many of the experiments resulted in mutations like missing limbs and diseases. I don't believe we are far enough along yet to start selling these genetic anomalies as food, yet.

Answer 2

I'm not at all concerned about it from a safety standpoint. The animals are no different than a pair of twins other than how they started life. My only concern is how risking this is in limiting genetic diversity in our animal stocks. A disease that some animals are resistant to may kill others. The less diversity, the greater the risk for disaster from a killer disease.

Answer 3

i'm pretty sure if we knew it was cloned, we'd rummage around the packages to look for products from the real animal.

Answer 4

As a vegetarian I think the whole thing is quite funny.

Enjoy your genetically engineered burger!

Answer 5

Ewww no sometimes they do that and plus you can get from that so you couldn't see the date and how old it is so no don't eat it

Answer 6

I think they should label it, but I don't think I'd eat it.