cloned meat and milk being sold to uk consumers

[petercook7]

cloned meat and milk being sold to uk consumers over the past few years, thats what a mate of my said in the pub today, just wondering if anyone else has hear this.

[Terbinator]

Surely its easier just to have more animals than cloning one ?

[finlay666]

cloned meat and milk being sold to uk consumers over the past few years, thats what a mate of my said in the pub today, just wondering if anyone else has hear this.

Did he tell you that while sipping on kool aid- soylent green edition?

They can't clone an animal without huge risk of genetic defect let alone enough to produce enough to satisfy demand

[matty-hodgson]

Did he tell you that while sipping on kool aid- soylent green edition?

They can't clone an animal without huge risk of genetic defect let alone enough to produce enough to satisfy demand

There's stuff that scientists are developing, like cloning muscle cells and building them "miniature gyms" so that the meat all aligns correctly.

I'm sure it was on a David Attenborough program about the population growing.

[petercook7]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...e-in-months.do


did a search and this is what came up, seems like it may be true.

and theyve been selling it in the US since 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle1264944.ece

[Lanky123]

Assuming that article is correct it's not really cloned meat - it's the offspring of a clone a generation or so down the line. Personally I'm not that fussed about it, provided sufficient genetic diversity remains across the breed as a whole I don't see what problems could arise.

[TheAnimus]

Was on the front cover of the daily fail today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...admission.html

I saw it on the news this morning and thought "that can't be cost effective, what's the real story here?"

[petercook7]

Was on the front cover of the daily fail today:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...admission.html

I saw it on the news this morning and thought "that can't be cost effective, what's the real story here?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10834350

on the BBC now.

[TeePee]

I bet it's good milk!

[Lucio]

I'm not convinced there's any real cause for concern, at least in terms of human health and safety, as cloning is simply replicating an animal that people would have eaten anyway.

However, the point regarding biodiversity being put at risk is a definate concern, and I'd be very worried if this becomes the "norm"

[finlay666]

US has been supplying hormone supplements to cows so they make more milk but not cloning the stuff

It's cheaper and more cost efficient to just breed them anyway from memory and knowing farmers, to breed them the milk becomes better too due to the hormone levels as opposed to faking the birth cycle. I forget the acronym but it's legal in the US but not in the EU from memory, but that was some years ago.

Cloning meat is just stupid, a chicken is reared from egg to slaughter in less than 30 days with modern farming methods (they fatten up so fast the legs cannot support their own weight hence the black burns.... those are ammonia (aka pee) burns), doing so in a lab is just stupid

[j.o.s.h.1408]

cloned meat and milk being sold to uk consumers over the past few years, thats what a mate of my said in the pub today, just wondering if anyone else has hear this.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

cloned meat and milk being sold to uk consumers over the past few years, thats what a mate of my said in the pub today, just wondering if anyone else has hear this.

rubbish cloning

[scaryjim]

Do you know who the farmer is? If so, contact the Daily Mail newsdesk on 020 7938 6000 or news@ dailymail.co.uk.

Responsible journalism at its best, there

[petercook7]

its funny the very people that say its safe ony eat organic.

[finlay666]

its funny the very people that say its safe ony eat organic.

Organic is more dangerous than GM produce, mainly because GM allows crops to be resilient to disease that needs harmful pesticides/chemicals to protect against, the lack of genetic variation is widely believed to be the main benefactor to the catastrophic potato famine in Ireland because of blight.

Long story short.... organic is a crock and isn't viable as a way of providing food for the world, maybe if people focussed on feeding those that NEED it as opposed to stunting technology advances less people would be starving while people throw out bins full of uneaten food on a regular basis