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Are meat and milk from cloned cattle safe?

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Running Bear

Running Bear Report 6 Aug 2010 14:46

Would you drink and eat it if you knew it was from a cloned animal?

me no problem, better than from a mad cow.

Merlin

Merlin Report 6 Aug 2010 15:26

More or less like Twin Calves or Sheep.Similar thing, anyway if you,re hungry enough you,ll eat anything.**M**.

Researching:
Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Wend,Prickly,Island,GG.+CC.+DIZZY & Mersey.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 6 Aug 2010 16:13

No. I can't see the point in cloning animals.
We also don't know the long-term effects.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

TeresaW

TeresaW Report 6 Aug 2010 17:47

As the cloning isn't chemically induced as far as I know, it's no worse than eating a twin is it? Also these are supposed to be the DESCENDENTS of the cloned animals...obviously farmed and fed as before.

That's not to say I'm in favour of cloning....but maybe if we were not so fussy over our meat...wanting bright red fat-free perfect joints every time, instead of the marbled slightly fatty stuff that's been hung in the cold room for at least 21 days, there wouldn't be the call for cloning to get the perfect meat cattle.

Personally, I'd eat it as long as it's welfare has been taken into consideration during it's lifetime. That's what makes better meat.

Researching:
Lovell, Morse, Baker, Duval, Mortlock, Gibbs and Bristow.

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 6 Aug 2010 18:10

i think i would eat it
but wouldn't give it to Baby Satan

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

Eldrick

Eldrick Report 6 Aug 2010 19:24

Why shouldn't cloned meat be eaten....?

Mick from the Bush

Mick from the Bush Report 7 Aug 2010 09:23

Absolutely no risk whatsoever!


xxxxxx mick