Cloning food?

Question

I've asked similar questions on cloning before. But do you think there would be any reason we couldn't clone food? like cattle, chickens, etc? The cloning process is not perfected to the point to where creatures cloned would live long. But if they cloned a cow, it really wouldn't matter how long it lived, its going to be hamburger soon enough! Just a thought.

Answer 1

Currently cloning animals is impractical. The cost would be way too much to clone animals.

However there are other cloning methods that could be used to produce food in large vats such as possibly making orange juice without ever having to grow an orange. This could be more economically done and would be more similar to how they grow cells and stuff in a lab, just on a larger scale.

As the world population grows and land becomes more and more scarce. This type of vat farming may one day become necessary.

Answer 2

It isn't the question of 'couldn't'. Its the question of if its economically efficient and profitable for the industry.

Also a common misconception is that cloning is easy now that it has been done. The truth is that there may be hundreds of failed embryos (not viable) before you get one that survives and is birthed. I think that breeding would be a much faster and cheaper way of getting more generations than to have to clone every single one. After all, cloning an embryo would still require a 'mother' to carry the fetus to term anyway. Just let them mate the old fashioned way and save time, money, and scientists.

Answer 3

They have been cloning food for awhile now.Mostly vegetables. It does not have quite as much flavor as farmed but the same nutrients.

Answer 4

Cloning doesn't make food grow any faster so there aren't really any good reasons.

Answer 5

i might want to truthfully not, not, not devour cloned food, and that i imagine it truly is going to be categorised! i'm sorry, yet to me this is unnatural, and why might want to someone even imagine about doing it?! (i understand they have many causes, yet i imagine they're all off their rockers!) They already artificially inseminate animals, and in case you extremely imagine about it, it truly is demanding sufficient, in and of itself!!! I already attempt to stay faraway from genetically altered food, etc. etc., and they merely keep dumping extra "crap" obtainable for human beings to devour! "human beings will in no way starve lower back"? it truly is unquestionably not a restore-it for that challenge. The tearing down of forests in South u.s. to make room for further cattle, so we individuals can devour extra meat, is one in each of the large form one contributor of famine in Africa, etc. because of the replace in "ecostructure." extra herds = extra starvation! Ever evaluate how a lot a cow eats? communicate about a no-brainer ~ a good number of folk might want to be fed. i imagine, more suitable than my faith, my perspectives are formed by being a member of fellow inhabitants of this planet we've been given to look after.

Answer 6

they are already cloning cattle