Cloning Cow Meat & Milk

[Beaaware]

Fancy eating meat or drinking milk from a cloned cow offspring, no thanks, what the hell is going on here, importing cloned frozen bull semen and embryos from the USA, WHY? Why do we need to import cloned cow semen & embryos, are they screened for BSE? I find this story alarming it seems farmers can do what they like and the implications to public health are being ignored. This reminds me of the recent story about Tony Cushion a farmer from Norfolk who was fined for feeding his cows banned cattle animal protein
some of his cattle disappeared, may have well entered the food chain unscreened, no way of knowing due to poor controls.

Whats wrong with cloneing, exactly? Take a, healthy cow that provides good meat, clone it, and you save a heck of alot of money, and are left with cow that begins its life immune to certain diseases (assumeing the 'origional' had said immunities). Clones are the same. Thats why they are called clones.

I agree that imported meat that has not been properly tested is a problem, but cloned meat, and non-cloned, have equal risks, and the real issue is if they are checked properly.

Far in the future, when we have little space left, cloneing and GM food will be the only realistic way for humans to survive, so we may aswell get used to it as a culture now.

Good job we're getting rid of the FSA quango Beaaware, eh?.... The cloning aspect bothers me mostly from an animal welfare point of view. Dolly the sheep, if I remember rightly, had quite a few health problems. That aside, cloning is far too expensive to be used as a standard breeding method. AI is much cheaper and probably more reliable.

They said on the news that when cloning is carried out, there is some damage to the DNA, so the cloned animal does not have exactly the same DNA as the animal from which it was cloned. They said that when the cloned animal reproduces, then the DNA will be rectified again. Not sure how they know this is always the case. Also there were fears about health when eating meat or drinking milk due to these DNA changes. However, many scientists say there is nothing to worry about. But we have heard that story a few times before.

As long as they put "Cloned Meat" on the food packaging labels fine, then one can choose what to buy & consume, personally I only buy organic meat as my confidence in eating meat was greatly diminished back in 1985 when the whole BSE crisis surfaced even though we were being told by our ministers that our Beef was perfectly safe to eat I just somehow did not believe them. Who knows what the effects of eating cloned meat might have on the human race, I do think there should be regulations in place to at least warn us before we consume this unatural process of rearing our animals for human consumption.
The thought of eating a piece of cloned imported potentially BSE infected rump steak is revolting.