Would you eat cloned beef?

Question

I don't understand why people care if the beef is cloned. If they raised one delicious steer and they can clone it to make more delicious steer - what's the beef??

Answer 1

Yes, because it's not the cloned animal you'd be eating - but it's offspring. The whole business of cloning animals won't involve a huge cloning farm like the matrix, but only a few grand champion steers and heifers will be cloned in order to increase the reproduction of their offpring. Instead of one calf per year from a grand champion, you can have 10, which in turn will birth 100, or however many multiples they decide to work with. Either way it is a good way of increasing the quality of the meats we consume.

Answer 2

ynotfehc's answer is awesome. It's exactly the reason people should be scared about eating cloned meat. One day in the future, when most of the meat in the world is cloned, and the animals stop being able to reproduce themselves, you'll all be sorry.

Us vegetarians won't give a rat's ***.

The big question is: "Why are they cloning meat anyways?" There is more than enough food on this planet to feed everyone-enough to feed the world 3 times over. The people starving in Africa are starving because the rest of the world doesn't care about them.

Answer 3

I would not knowingly eat cloned meat.
There is not enough science to show that this meat is "as normal" as regular beef. You can't have these types of studies until at least 20 years of cloned-meat eaters are thoroughly tested.

But more so, Dolly the cloned sheep has suffered through painful defects. I will not knowingly eat meat from an animal that was created with undue stress.

I already question the treatment of natural-born animals on meat farms. For cloned animals the torture could be doubly great.

Answer 4

At this time, it takes about $20,000.00 to "create" one cloned head of cattle. At that price, we won't be eating an actual clone but will probably be - or already are - dining on their offspring. The reason to clone anything is because it - whatever "it" is - has been judged by someone to be a superior product: animal, vegetable or mineral. It stands to reason, then, that the actual cloned specimen will be used for reproduction, maybe with another cloned specimen, for superiority of taste, texture, or nutritional value. Cloning is also performed for increased resistance to disease and tolerance to adverse conditions.

Would I eat a cloned beef? Probably not if I knew about it. The process is still too new and unproven.

Answer 5

The problem is what happens to our food supply years down the line, when suddenly something happens to that cloned strand of beef, and we are cant eat it anymore. At the beginning of the 20th century there were more than 200 different species of corn available for us to eat. I dont know the exact number left, but I know its less than 50. The food supply on the planet keeps getting smaller and smaller, and by cloning food we are just helping this extinction along even faster.
My second concern is what are they doing to the genes as they are cloning the beef. Are they making the cow bigger, fatter, leaner, smaller bones and more meat, etc. Its just like corn, wheat and soybeans in this country. Why doesnt RoundUp herbicides kill the corn and wheat but everything else? Because the seeds were mutated or genetically modified to withstand RoundUp. Now we are going to do this with beef too? You can eat it all you want, but I dont trust the big billion dollar businesses and the lawmakers they are in bed with getting kickbacks.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, in the US, we don't know the difference because the FDA doesn't require cloned meat to be labeled. This is crazy - we're not allowed to know what we're buying and eating? Studies have NOT shown that there's nothing wrong with cloned meat, they simply haven't concluded that there actually is anything wrong because they haven't been done sufficiently or by independent organizations. Until there's more information available, I'll avoid that any way I can. I'll stick with grass fed, free range meats that are the way nature intended them to be.

Answer 7

although, it is now possible to clone beef, the question shouldn't be weather or not you would eat it. that question is mute. we are all going to end up eatting it weather we want to or not. i think the question should be, do we want to clone whole animals or just the parts we need ( which is also possible now ).Animal activists are eventually going to force us to eat cloned meats and the option to just clone parts, seems to me to be a more humane way to do it. then we can stop killing all those living creatures.

Answer 8

a bigger question could be...could you recognize in case you have been ingesting cloned purple meat or regular beginning purple meat? i've got faith there are no longer any regulations governing such suggestion, that's on a voluntary foundation that the manufacturers enable you recognize that's cloned at this factor interior the u . s .. i does no longer want to consume it if I knew.

Answer 9

Yeah, I'd even eat a cloned lemon

Answer 10

no never, every piece of beef you eat has a different taste no matter how slight it would be boring to eat the same ta st all the time, any way it sounds weird.