cloned cows...is this wrong?

[DEATHMASTER]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_fe_st/cloned_cows
So what do you think about it? Should cloned meat be approved? I dont think so, maybe crops but not livestock.

 

[Cole]

We need more food, so we clone the cows that are going to give us more food. As the world gets bigger we have to somehow feed everyone.

Who cares if it is a cloned cow or a cow your eating? It's really the same damn thing just created differently.

 

[Que-Ever]

Too tasty to be ungodly.

 

[Absinthe]

I wish I could clone a steak. So I could, like, eat all the steak I want without killing the cows 'n stuff.

 

[Que-Ever]

They can clone specific organs afaik, I wonder why they can't clone a steak.

 

[Geogaddi]

The steak is nestled between the gallbladder and the liver if I remember correctly?

 

[Stigmata]

It's not wrong whatsoever.

Prove me wrong, HL2.net!

 

[Que-Ever]

I don't want to, though.

 

[theotherguy]

No. Not at all. There are almost no potential health risks, so I say clone away, if it gives us better and more predictable food.

The most efficient thing to do, however, would be to simply grow meat on scaffolds in giant fields and then ship off big chunks of it to be processed.

 

[Qonfused]

Why not?

 

[Stigmata]

No. Not at all. There are almost no potential health risks, so I say clone away, if it gives us better and more predictable food.

The most efficient thing to do, however, would be to simply grow meat on scaffolds in giant fields and then ship off big chunks of it to be processed.

Or better yet, grow the meat on scaffolds in the processing plant.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Grow a processing plant made out of meat.

 

[Que-Ever]

Meh, just cover the building in meat.

 

[Stigmata]

Meat moon?

 

[theotherguy]

whatever, just eat a pill that grows meat directley in our stomachs.

 

[Raziaar]

whatever, just eat a pill that grows meat directley in our stomachs.

But then you bypass the whole beef eating experience. And afterall, isn't that why we eat meat? To enjoy the flavor? Tastebuds wouldn't be getting any love, except for the foul taste of that beef pill.


As for the original post, I don't really care if it doesn't add any negative health effects for the cloned meats. We're already doing so many things wrong with our food animals... like feeding them the wrong kind of food, injecting them with stuff to make them produce more meat... etc etc. And it's producing a worse product for human consumption overall.

Same goes for vegetables. Technology has been ruining the health benefits of our food.

 

[Deadline]

Maybe this will drop the price of Steak?

...that would be delicious...

 

[Llama]

Umm, clone burgers

 

[15357]

Well, if you don't want to eat cloned beef in the near future, start killing a few hundred million people.

 

[Llama]

umm, people burg-

what?

 

[KagePrototype]

umm, people burg-

what?

Don't think, just eat.

 

[DaMaN]

Tastes good with ketchup

 

[Llama]

http://img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=youlooktastysu1gy3tv6.jpg

 

[Que-Ever]

Meat moon?

That's no moon... that's a steak station.

 

[Remus]

As long as there are no health riscs and it tastes the same I'm all for it.

Same goes for vegetables. Technology has been ruining the health benefits of our food.

I've been hearing about this for so long, but I wish someone would tell me exactly what about the production process is making vegetables less nutritious? And I've heard in some cases they don't even taste good.(Yes that's right over here we're still eating veggies made the old fashion way, but not for long;( )

 

[Stigmata]

That's no moon... that's a steak station.

 

[Raziaar]

I've been hearing about this for so long, but I wish someone would tell me exactly what about the production process is making vegetables less nutritious? And I've heard in some cases they don't even taste good.(Yes that's right over here we're still eating veggies made the old fashion way, but not for long;( )

Just do a web search, something along the lines of 'vegetables aren't as healthy as they used to be'.

Heh... silly way to about it, but it gives results and information about the declining nutrition values of food over the course of 50 or so years.

 

[kirovman]

I don't care about the morals, but there seems little point.

You still have to implant the cloned embryo and grow it in the same way as a normal animal (using the same crop and land resources).

Even for a genetically more tasty bloodline, there seems little point.

 

[Vegeta897]

Some of you have no idea what cloning means... It's not like they stick a cow into a chamber, hit a button, and boom there is two of them... You can't just create matter out of nothing
All it is is recreating a genetically identical egg/thing/whatever, which will then grow up to be the same as the original. That's it. It happens in nature already, especially in plants, but even in animals too, it's called having twins or triplets etc.

Just want to clear that up.

 

[Flyingdebris]

most people can't tell the difference between most cows anyway, clone away! I want some clone burgers

 

[Que-Ever]

I was thinking earlier, they have to have the same number of cows anyway to clone them, why don't they just get the bulls to impregnate them?

 

[delusional]

i think cloned cows grow faster so we can get the population to grow much faster.

 

[NeptuneUK]

" cloned cows...is this wrong?"

Nope

 

[Cole]

I was thinking earlier, they have to have the same number of cows anyway to clone them, why don't they just get the bulls to impregnate them?

Genes. Say some cows produce more than some other cows. This cow produces more milk but this cow will give us more meat. So you clone the genes that give you the most milk and the genes that give you the most meat.

Guess what you just did? You are increasing production levels to take in more profit, reduce the average price(the more supply the less the cost), and you can feed more people.

 

[Que-Ever]

More accurate than selective breeding!
Yes, I drew the crosshair on there myself :|

 

[CyberPitz]

Now what would be wrong if we didn't have our way with those cows since they don't know better.

 

[Cole]

Some of you have no idea what cloning means... It's not like they stick a cow into a chamber, hit a button, and boom there is two of them... You can't just create matter out of nothing
All it is is recreating a genetically identical egg/thing/whatever, which will then grow up to be the same as the original. That's it. It happens in nature already, especially in plants, but even in animals too, it's called having twins or triplets etc.

Just want to clear that up.

Thats what they want you to think.

 

[Vegeta897]

D:

 

[Flyingdebris]

i wonder if scaffold meat could be made to taste as good as normal meat?

and if so, would vegetarians still protest it?

 

[topsquid]

i wonder if scaffold meat could be made to taste as good as normal meat?

and if so, would vegetarians still protest it?

Only the ones who don't eat meat...