Isn't our supply of meat already ample enough? I mean, sure its a pretty fancy idea but what's the point of it?
Besides...I doubt the process itself is cheap...
2007-01-02 09:20:14 · 10 answers · asked by 2 days after my B day :) 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I agree.
And its just going to create more farm subsidies.
Hey, clone corn to make fuel... not to make food.. that's my idea.
2007-01-02 09:22:22 · answer #1 · answered by Dog Lover 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not likely cloned animals would ever make it to the butcher-block. The idea of cloning is to recreate animals of high production or with good quality offspring.
As example, farmers would be able to recreate a prize bull that always sires beefy calves. Today when a prize bull dies, farmers must store as much collected semen as possible. Frozen storage is much more expensive than cloning. And, when the supply is used up, the farmer is SOL. It takes many years, even decades, for a bull to prove itself. Cloning allows for a bull to be preserved for many generations.
2007-01-02 17:38:33 · answer #2 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only reason to clone any food animal/plant would be in the same vein as selective breeding. We'd be choosing a certain set of genes for a specific set of traits that we like in that species, and just copying it millions of times over. Unfortunately, that means any genetic defect or susceptibility to disease in that organism can cause massive blights. Genetic diversity is necessary, and homogenizing the food population like they're planning to do is a really REALLY dumb idea. :\
2007-01-02 17:26:06 · answer #3 · answered by eatmorec11h17no3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
start boycotting all meat products. There will be an over abundance of the real stuff no need to bother with the cloning! Just an Idea!
2007-01-02 17:24:35 · answer #4 · answered by wondermom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well I believe the reasoning is Population-Seriously the population is continually growing everyday around the world and it doesn't look like it's about to go down anytime soon so you have the age old problem-Supply and demand
2007-01-02 17:25:02 · answer #5 · answered by Art 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The point is it reproduces the best of the best in regards to livestock. The biggest cows, chickens, goats, sheep... will be used to breed together the perfect food producing animals. More meat, more milk, more eggs...
2007-01-02 17:26:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we need it.
I'm thinking the reasoning behind it would be to make it more healthy to eat -- but why not breed that out of the animals naturally like it is done for other defects, or better production, etc.
2007-01-02 17:24:21 · answer #7 · answered by curious_One 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there has to be someone that benefits from it. a concern may be the fact that farmland is being developed to accommodate more people.
2007-01-02 17:25:30 · answer #8 · answered by kissmy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it would be one way to control quality without having to worry about genetic defects
2007-01-02 17:24:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no we dont
2007-01-02 17:22:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋