Cloned amimals use as food?

Question

Recently there was a report about cloned animals being used as meat supply. These animals would then be in the supermarket without a seal to show that the aminal is cloned.
I just want to know if this is safe to eat because the whole thing seems kinda freaky to me. Also how many of you guys would like eat a cloned animal?

Answer 1

What's so freaky about it? The only difference between a cloned animal and a "natural" animal is where the initial DNA in the egg comes from. All this means to the consumer and the farmer is a more consistent product.

Actually, I am very interested in what they are doing with tissue engineering techniques. It is now quite possible to make laboratory grown meat from cultured muscle tissue. All that needs to happen is a method to produce consistent fat marbling and uniform shape in a cost effective manor and presto, an abundant supply of "no kill" steaks.

Answer 2

Well, you have been eating cloned fruits your entire life, why should cloned animals be any different.

Apples, bananas, grapes, and pretty much every other fruit that comes from a tree or bush can be cloned. Growers like to find the best producing plant of the bunch and clone that plant over and over. It is done thru grafting.

This is a bit different than animal cloning, but the idea is the same. The cloned organism has identical DNA to what it was cloned from. There should be no difference between the two animals on that level. Eating the clone should be no different than eating the original.

What you may be upset about is meat from an animal that has been genetically modified. There is no proof that there is any danger there, but the jury is still out.

Answer 3

I'm not sure I'd want to eat cloned meat, at least until they progress farther in the cloning technology. A lot of clones so far are diseased because of imperfections in the process, and it's generally a bad idea to eat diseased animals or plants.

The thing that would really concern me is if they start trying to alter the genes of the animals, like an article I read about trying to make animals more docile and grow larger, etc.

Answer 4

I guess I would be okay with it because honestly it can't be worse than the conditions these animals are in now. I'd be more likely to eat cloned meat that didn't technically come from a live animal.

This is of course predicated on the theory that cloned meat is safe.

Answer 5

Cloned animals seem to be more useful than you think, but your concern is accepted, all you have to do is a research about this type of food, then you will be able to figure it out, if you think is well enough to eat, eat it, if not then you have the right to be concerned. As a man I'll tell you that I am vegetarian, and not because of those cloned animals, but for my own health.

Answer 6

A cloned animal is just a twin if you will of its host animal. The animal would be just like the first including it's meat. So if you can eat the first or host then you can eat the clone.

Answer 7

I saw that report too. I'm not sure if I would want to eat it either, but I definitely think that when it's in the store it should be labeled. I don't think it's fair for them to "slip it to you" on the sly. People have a right to know just what they're eating, especially if it's a clone... Isn't it wierd?

Answer 8

well i feel that if this helps stop world hungry in places like africa and other places then yes as long as the meat is good which i guess might be since it is the equivalent of the orignal but if ther is an effect which causes people to die or get illnesses then no but for now im goin with a yes

Answer 9

But can you, in all good faith, call the meat we eat now "natural"? I can't. But i still eat hamurgers. I hope that cloned animal meat does'nt kill to many people.

Answer 10

My answer would be no. anything genetically altered including cloning has had no long term study.