Comments on: Did You Eat Cloned Meat For Dinner Last Night?

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Michelle Obama’s Organic Garden upsets Big Agri « Healthhabits — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:55 +0000

[...] Cloned meat [...]

By: asithi

asithi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:04:40 +0000

I also worry about limiting the diversity in our food supply with cloning. Instead of getting our vitamins and minerals from a large variety of food, we are getting them from supplements added back into processed food. Like bentlyr said, the food industry will probably clone a handful of prized cows. I wonder if there has been any studies on the human telomeres at the end of our chromosomes from eating cloned or genetically modified meat.

By: DR

DR — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:04:30 +0000

Maggie…that is crazy.

I have heard lots of bad things about KFC et al.

Most of it has come from PETA.

This story seems to be just another urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.asp

But then again…

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-kfc-chicken-stilts-flamingos.jpg

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:22:10 +0000

It’s interesting how you brought up this subject – I wasn’t aware of how many people were aware of “cloning” meat that we actually consume.
Comparing the photos of “cloned” meat to actual meat in your article, I would have never been able to detect which is which.

It wasn’t until a few months ago while driving along a main road in town, I noticed some animal activists petitioning in front of a popular, nation-wide fried chicken chain. I was told by one of the activists that the chicken served at the chain was actually “cloned” – that the final chicken product after the “cloning process” resulted in a chicken’s body with no head or feet. After hearing this disturbing news, I couldn’t imagine how anyone could fathom eating chicken again. Whether true or untrue, I begin to imagine what this world is coming to or whether this is just another ploy by competitors.

By: charliedw

charliedw — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:33:29 +0000

This is not a subject I know a lot about. I hope you don’t mind me saying so DR, but your original posting did not make it clear why you were skeptical about cloned meat and mainly reported official conclutions (which like you, I find suspect).

My first thought was better cloned than genetically modified, because at least cloning follows natures original blueprint.

However, your answers to some of the comments (about health problems etc, make it clearer to me).

I did not realise that they had more health problems, or as Bentlyr says, premature aging.

So I to will steer clear of it for now as well.

By: DR

DR — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:45:37 +0000

This is starting to feel like an episode of the X-Files.

The Cigarette Smoking Man

By: tcguys

tcguys — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:38:18 +0000

Wow, maybe there was some truth to all of this: http://www.theconspiracyguys.com/2008/09/01/what-the-cluck/

By: McBloggenstein

McBloggenstein — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:48:11 +0000

Soylent Green?

IT’S PEOPLE!!!

By: bentlyr

bentlyr — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:13:30 +0000

I believe genetic diversity (as limited as it is in the food industry) is still important. Continuously using the same prized clone will eventually result in disease (at least in my opinion).
While there really isn’t any proof it is bad to consume cloned animals… we have to realize that with current techniques telomeres at the end of chromosomes tend to be shorter in cloned animals. The result is premature aging with a host of age related diseases for the animals. I’m not sure how this would affect us as consumers but it’s just something to note.

By: DR

DR — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:50:45 +0000

Gabrielle,

aaaahhhhh… The eternal battle between the head and the gut.

If we look strictly at the current science, the head should win this argument.

But it’s not winning. The gut is kicking it’s butt.

The Ick factor is winning this debate.

For now.

In the beginning, people were terrified of cell phones, Ashton Kucher and Demi Moore, microwaves, cars, fire, the wheel, the apple…

As things become familiar, they become comfortable and we relax and accept

Let’s see if this debate is still around in a decade or two.

By then, we may be freaking out over the introduction of Soylent Green