Would you drink milk from cloned cows?

Question

Cows amongst other animals (goats, pigs, etc.) are being cloned. A large US dairy company refused to sell milk from cloned cows.

The article went on to say that cloned animals will eventually give birth to "new" animals which would be sold on the food chain...this is the game plan.

So much of our food supply is being genetically altered already, some foods even irradiated.

The thing is no one knows anything about the long term effects of genetic alterating.

Throughts?

Answer 1

I ama former chef and worked all over Canada and the Carribbean, now we have milk with pro-botic cultures, Omega 3 fats and other added nutrients.

The cloning process only affects the cows DNA if it is a cow, that produces milk , what changes could occur to the consumption by humans, figure over last 50 years, all the changes to all of food products from meat, veg and grains.

If they were to disover the milk was tainted with something it would not be sold and disposed of as it is now with "regular cows", some day all our food will be genetically altered or have a hardier species graphed to it to make it more nutritionally sound or grow in areas were they normal don't. So it is not worth worrying about, right now there are worse things than cloned milk to be concerned with, they will have to label it and if no one buys it then it will fade away and not be sold again, wait for that to happen.

Answer 2

what's the problem???? A cow is a cow!! So what if a cow has a twin (or triplet, or quad, etc.) it really is one era aside?? Come ON human beings! get a clue! A clone is a twin, no longer a monster! And the milk??? Cow milk is cow milk! would not count number which cow it got here from. What do you imagine will ensue to you in case you drink "clone" milk?? truly, what do you imagine will ensue?? answer: no longer some thing (except strengthen reliable bones and tooth, and benefit all the different wellbeing reward, the picture of commonly used milk). i am going to drink it -- NO problem! .

Answer 3

Sure! Why not?! If you think about it, we ALL are clones to some degree. We posses traits inherited from our parents, and their parents, and their parents - and so on.

A cloned animal is just an animal who's traits come completely from it's host. DNA extracted from a cell is put into an egg cell and allowed to develop. (OK, it's not that easy, but it's the basic idea) We get our DNA which is combined by natural processes, whereas the cloned animal is specifically given it's DNA. It should be as healthy and as normal as it's host. A mini exact replica.

If you have a cow that gives superior quality milk and you clone it, now you have a superior milk supply.

NOW GENETICALLY ALTERED is a different story. Scientists experimenting with genes and not knowing exactly what they get. Perhaps you can get a honey bee that gives milk. I don't think I'd drink it because I might be allergic to it's sting. That I wouldn't trust.

But good question. :)

Answer 4

But cloning isn't altering a natural gene pattern in any way. It's copying them.

This is kind of like asking if you would drink the milk from the twin of another cow or not.

There are health implications for the animals involved, since there are natural mechanisms for aging that seem to be based on the number of times the DNA divides in the nucleus of a cell. Ergo, a newborn infant animal would have "adult" aged DNA, and would encounter certain related problems earlier in life than usual.

The gene set is authentic, bona-fide, non-Frankenfood, though.

It's very different from altering the natural gene sequences, IMO.

Answer 5

I would not drink milk from cloned cows or any other cows because of the processing involved.

So many things are being added to our milk supply that drinking it nowadays is very chancy and I don't think we should do anything to cows milk let alone adding more complications like cloning.

Answer 6

Yes, of course. Nothing's wrong with the milk. A cloned cow is exactly the same as a birthed cow; it has the same DNA, which means it produces the same milk. It's not gentically altered... it's THE SAME. It's as if you took that milk directly from the birthed cow, because essentially, THEY ARE THE SAME COW.

Answer 7

no milk is not good for you
people listen to the dairy industry
why is it humans are the only animals to actively seek out milk once weaned from their mothers
so now i ask is this normal behaviour
there are other sources of calcium that have higher concentrations than milk
so why do humans drink milk it should be outlawed
and bravo to land o lakes butter and their and i also believe gay lea

Answer 8

i think its quite safe to drink milk from a cloned cow .i read in some newspaper that its not harmful
it doesnt matter .it tastes same

Answer 9

I wouldn't drink milk from cloned animals.
It freaks me out just to think about it.

Answer 10

As long as the cow is healthy, I would have no problem eating it or drinking its milk.