What are people worried will actually happen if they eat the meat of a cloned animal?

Question

Answers from meat-eaters only, please. I'm not looking for general objections to meat.

A little more background info: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070113/food.asp

Also explain why you think what you do. How will what you think will happen happen?

Answer 1

That they will grow hooves and a snout.

I'm thinking that nothing along those lines will happen, but people don't realize that in order to clone an animal you first need the knowledge of how to do so, then a lab, and an animal to clone. The sheep that was cloned "Dolly" I think only lived six years, I don't know the life expectancy of sheep created outside the lab, but it is the same sheep just like copying a piece of paper on a copy machine you have the same piece of paper with slight distortion. Therefore it is the same meat, just more or less fat content. What are they going to do with the livestock that is cloned throw them in the incinerator or have them butchered for the daring meat eaters?

Answer 2

No. not something to do w/ morals. I have not got any ought to opt to bypass that a methods, there is assorted humanely raised livestock the region I stay that i'm waiting to eat. in my opinion, I in actuality eat meat it fairly is from as interior sight a source and as humanely dealt with as accessible. If i'm not waiting to discover interior sight meats, i will eat vegetarian as a exchange. If a million/2 the attempt went into making waiting starving worldwide places to grant interior sight, humanely fed and raised animals and positioned across as is going into lab grown "meat" we would not have assorted the undertaking concerns feeding human beings as we do on the instantaneous.

Answer 3

Choosing to avoid cloned meat is a pro-science position, not an anti-science one.
Only the ignorant and/or arrogant believe science doesn't march on. It's impossible to understand the long-term effects of something that's only been around a handful of years. Since the long-term effects are unknown, what's the big rush?
Cigarettes, DDT, mercury, cocaine, thalidomide, asbestos, vioxx - there are plenty of substances that were once deemed okey-dokey for general use, but long-term studies determined weren't quite as harmless as originally believed.
I don't know how else to explain it. Science is always advancing. This expansion of our knowledge means that some things that we once believed to be true (or safe) are actually false (or harmful). Just about everything right now says that cloning is fine, but that doesn't mean that will be the case in 40 years.
Food is required for people to live. So, if you're going to **** with food in new ways so Agribusinesses can make more money, at least label it so I can choose an alternative if that's how I swing.
GM food also appears to have detrimental effects on animals that eat it - many animals actually refusing to eat it until they have no other option. I will definitely not be eating it.
You can be sure of one thing. When the US administration assures the American public that a particular food is safe, it is anything but safe. The US doesnt have a government that represents the people; it has a plutocracy that represents corporate power, including the powerful cattle industry which is heavily Republican. This same administration has proclaimed genetically modified foods to be safe; beef to be safe; and now cloned meat and products to be safe. It is instructive that when GM foods were cleared for sale, the administration passed a regulation that GM foods could NOT be labeled as such. When asked at a press conference why he was depriving consumers of information and choice, Bush responded that if GM foods were labeled, consumers wouldnt buy them. The same non-labeling is going to be applied to cloned meat products.
I have written to a number of supermarket chains asking whether they would carry cloned products, and if so whether they would voluntarily label them (which may be illegal, but it may be legal to carry labels saying "guaranteed non-cloned product", just as they are permitted to label "non-GM food").
The good news for those who live in the US as I do, is that Whole Foods will not, under any circumstances, carry cloned products, and are controlling their sources of supply to ensure no contamination. It remains to be seen whether other chains, like Trader Joe's, will follow suit. So, although I am a vegetarian, I will certainly buy meat products for my non-vegetarian family ONLY at Whole Foods (or local organic suppliers), and no ! I do not work for or represent Whole Foods in any way !
The US administration has assured the American population that the beef supply is free of mad cow disease. And yet America has the highest rate of Alzheimer's disease in the world, rates that are almost epidemic. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Alzheimer's present many similar symptoms and it requires autopsies to provide a reliable differentiation. America seldom carries out such autopsies...less than 10 %. And only a tiny proportion of cattle are inspected. So there may well be an epidemic of mad cow disease in the USA

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0107-07.htm

http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.cfm

Because ground beef in the US is pooled in huge centers from thousands of providers, only a few contaminated farms could well contaminate the entire supply. Much of that beef goes into fast food.
There is a swelling majority of Americans who are well educated about the dangers of the US food supply (its not just GMO, cloned meat, mad cow, its also anti-biotics, hormones, trans-fats, and ubiquitous e-coli contamination). They have learnt to have a deep distrust for any assurances they receive from the administration on the safety of the food supply, and there is a significant growth in the popularity of organic foods. However, this group is still a small minority, and the majority of Americans seem completely unconcerned about what they put into their bodies. That is something I cant understand, but it seems to be the prevailing attitude, and it is displayed in an almost macho-aggressive manner.
Firstly, CJD was passed to humans from cows that grew and looked normal. Secondly, cancers are often caused in humans by substances we ingest. We grow normally, and there are no visible symptoms often until it has riddled our system. So we can all eat things that look and taste nice not realising they are bad for us.
You need proper testing to ascertain health risks through controlled trials - not just base it on some hunch about how an animal appears to look fine.
Anyone who resists proper saftey standards for the new food/pharma industry (GM, cloning) has either got a screw lose or is an interested party.
What benefits do we have from cloned food?It's not gonna be cheaoer for you,it's gonna be more profit for biotech companies and factory farms.Why use the population of the U.S. who eat meat and dairy as guinea pigs?

quote from FDA
"Cloned meat and milk is just as safe as the food we eat today"

That scares me,here's why
The FDA almost never takes action to protect the public. Instead, the agency's decisions consistently and almost universally protect the financial interests of influential corporations such as pharmaceutical companies or, in this case, beef industry companies.
Mad cow disease is real, and it's here in America. It's caused by insane feeding practices that allow cattle ranchers to feed their cows chicken litter (yes, chicken dung) and the blood, brains and spinal cord tissue from other cows and dead animals. This is the stuff that goes into the food you're eating, folks (if you eat red meat, that is).

The sane thing would be to ban the use of these feed items for cows. That's what the FDA should have done six months ago. But now, they're delaying it even further: it could take two years to get a decision from the FDA on this. Meanwhile, cattle ranchers keep on feeding their cows practically any form of protein they can get their hands on, regardless of its safety.

In this situation, both the FDA and the USDA are acting out of total disregard for the health and safety of the public. The beef industry loves all the delays, because they've never wanted to be forced to actually follow sane feeding practices in the first place (it would add cost to the beef). They'd rather just keep on feeding their cows anything they can find -- blood, brain matter, spinal cords, chicken dung, you name it -- and pretend mad cow disease doesn't exist.

As a consumer, if you thought the FDA was protecting you, you're sadly mistaken. The agency acts more like a marketing branch for private industry than a government regulator.

Answer 4

Hell im not quite sure...it might hurt pregnant women though and maybe little kids...

Answer 5

i think the deal is cloning is unethical. but i don't mind if it is safe.

Answer 6

It just does not sound appealing to me at all.

Answer 7

Nothing.