Would you eat cloned meat?

Question

(I was unsure where to place this question, so I simply asked it in my default forum) If you knew it was clean, healthy, and genetically perfect, would you be willing to eat a cloned side of beef? If you could grow a "chunk" of flesh from your own skin, would you eat it in a survival or travel situation?

Let me interate that I'm not speaking of growing the whole animal or human. It would simply are large "mass" of flesh, similar to a tumor (although, this analogy unfortunately illicits a negative image). For all intents and purposes, it would be healthier of and more nutritious that what we eat now.

Answer 1

Cloned meat is probably no different than eating the animal from which it was cloned. I suppose it is no more or less cruel and should not carry any forseeable health risk. Unless eating, for example, beef from the same cow your whole life some how made you sick and you needed variety. I am aslo assuming the animal from which the cloned meat comes from is in all ways healthy and has no genetic abnormalities.
The process of cloning is more involved and complex than the natural process, so I don't see why you would do it, plus there seem to be life expectancy problems and reproductive problems in the animals that are cloned themselves, at least last I read.

Personally I don't eat much meat. I get most my protein from eggs, fish, and legumes & rice. I do eat meat on occasion and I don't see how eating cloned meat would be different, assuming no health risk was involved.

Would I eat a chunk of my own flesh? There are too many alternatives such as bugs, plants, fruits, small critters. I can't see ever eating a part of myself. First off for survival purposes I would never injure myself because it takes energy to heal and the risk of infection would be too great. That is assuming I needed to cut away said chunk. If I was carrying a chunk of lab grown flesh of my own? First off why would I be doing that, wouldn't I have a bag of beef jerkey or something? Secondly the energy to grow that chunk of meat is greater than the amount of energy my body could get from eating it.
Now I think I am going to be sick. I am about to throw up "Soilent Green."

Answer 2

does not trojan horse me interior the least. the full thought of doing it nature's way is incredibly unappealing too, isn't it? i think of the factor of cloning animals for meat intake is that once you have that "suitable" cow, pig or hen (or what have you ever) you could recreate it into infinity. There are worse issues than duplicating the suitable of a species, are not there? it form of feels much less disgusting than all the upward thrust hormones and anti-biotics they provide our animals now. I consume meat basically a pair of cases each and every week because of the fact it is so gross and heavily think of roughly going vegetarian on a regularly occurring foundation. i will in all probability make the leap ultimately yet see no longer something incorrect with cloned animals.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if cloned meat is big on the market or if the FDA has mandated it to be marked as such. It is possible I've eaten it, and not noticed.
Survival or travel? i would hope survival, and if that is the case, I'd probably not eat my own cloned flesh simply because it is human.

Answer 4

No! Unless someone gave it to me without my knowledge. Yuk.

Answer 5

I eat my grass first hand!

Answer 6

i don't eat meat in the first place, so no.

Answer 7

No, I still wouldn't eat it.

Answer 8

It just doesn't seem right so no probably not...

Answer 9

i dont think i would try it knowingly. it doesnt seem right.

Answer 10

No way!