Why SHOULDN'T we clone a herd of mammoths for a food source?

Question

No, really. I think it would be cool. I think we could do it too. And don't give me any of that crap about God hating the mammoths and smiting them from the earth for being gay.

Answer 1

Gay Mammoths? That's interesting. I agree that cloning extinct things would be cool. Would Mammoths eat more or less than other things we grow as food? That would probably be the question I would want answered before cloning them as a source of food.

Answer 2

How do you know they'd even taste good?

Seriously though, introducing any new species to an environment is never a good idea. We have no idea what sort of impact re-introducing mammoths would have on the existing plants and animals.

Answer 3

Because the land used for feeding cattle would produce enough vegetables to end world hunger. Add mammoth grazing on top of that...

Answer 4

Because they are extinct and haven't been alive since the Pliocene epoch(4.8 million years ago to around 3,500 years ago). Plus it's better to study them.

Answer 5

They taste like elephants, and we don't generally eat elephants. Why? It's cheaper and easier to raise other animals than elephants.
It's easier to raise even esoteric animals for food, such as ostriches and bison, than to raise elephants.

Answer 6

MMmmmmmmm......mammoth steak.

Answer 7

might take too long to get the end product and then it might taste poo or they could be ultra smart and stamp on all of us.

GM the giant cow

Answer 8

it dont matter to me anyways... mammoths are treif

Answer 9

because thats tight!

Answer 10

yeah what he said!