BF2S Forums FDA Approves Cloned Food

commissargizz wrote:

This is all to do with corporate greed and nothing else. Do we have a shortage of meat already, are cows dying out? What if the first cloned cow/sheep whatever had a disease that was hibernating or something? We just don't know so I'm not going to try it. (I'm vegetarian so I wouldn't anyway)

Anyone want BSE with their beef.

+1

I sort of posted this before, but replication is a far more viable alternative to cloning. The meat industry is already immense.

Question: should replication displace butchery for meat products, what will be the fate of species bred for food?

Turquoise wrote:

I think cloning may become the answer to things like world hunger.

As odd as it sounds, the problem with world hunger is not lack of food.

Spark wrote:

Agree, a few molecules of junk DNA is not going to make much practical difference. Cloning is a long and fairly difficult procedure, which is why it's fairly big news when its's performed.

Cloning is dificult now, but like all technology, it is fast becoming a simple and standard practice. Cloning is already much more easier now then it was when Dolly was announced.

Someone wrote wrote:

I seriously never thought this would be a serious question in my lifetime.

Spark wrote:

Probably the most pertinent response to this subject possible.

Biological science is as dangerous as physics, which gave us the atomic bomb. People are right to be skeptical and scared about this.

But as for me, yes I would eat cloned foods.