Will you be feeding your kids cloned meat?

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I just wanted to make everyone aware (just incase you hadn't heard and it interests you).

The bill was passed through parliment recently for meat products (meat, milk, yogurts, cheese etc) to come from cloned cows.

So far, Organic is still safe.

It has all been very low key and consumers are hardly being informed or indeed considered so it won't be on News @ 10 tonight!

I personally won't be eating anything that is not organic now and will just be eating more veggie to offset the cost.

If you remember CJD (mad cows) the goverment will do anything to get food cheaply into the supermarkets so don't be fooled into thinking it must be safe.
You'll find out in 15 years if it isn't!

Rant over .

What is it that concerns you about cloned animals as a source of meat and dairy products? I would have thought the point of cloning is that the meat / milk are the same as that produced by the original cow?

Having said that, is it actually likely that meat / milk is coming from cloned animals? My memory is that there's no particular advantage in cloning animals for food.

Who would have thought that by feeding cows Offal it would cause brain disease and death in the humans that ate it?

It took 15/20 years before the penny dropped.

For me it's the last straw. Over farming has caused so many problems with health/food and enviroment and this is a step too far, they have learned nothing.

It's bad enough that these animals are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics to get the food onto our plate fast and cheaply but to now clone animals in a lab and start consuming it with a wait and see attitude.
Along with GM crops, this is playing with nature and could have a catastrophic outcome.

I am pretty sure that cloned animals are too valuable to be sent to slaughter. It's the offspring of those cloned animals that will go into the foodchain (especially the offspring of cloned bulls). Similarly, it will be difficult to mass produce cloned cows in sufficient quantity to meet demand, so it will be the milk products of the offspring of the cloned cattle that we'll have access to.
I don't have a problem with it, I will eat it as readily as I would eat any cow product.

To me, as a biology graduate, cloned animals are the same as non-cloned in this respect. A cloned cow is just the 'twin' of the cow whose genetic material is used for cloning. No 'problem' there. If cloned cows' milk etc. was sold in shops, I would buy it (if it was same price or cheaper), because, if anything, it's quality would be probably be monitored even more closely than 'normal' cow's milk.

Forgot to add, or family is veggie, so would not be eating the meat anyway.

No, because dd will not be a child by the time the technology is sufficiently advanced to make cloned meat widely available.

And anyway, it's fine. You eat cloned food all the time - apples, for instance.

It's bad enough that these animals are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics to get the food onto our plate fast

What are you talking about? you obviously have opinions but no knowledge of the facts.

As a farmers wife who also ran a meat business and endlessly studied meat, sources and values I think I am well qualified to question your statement.

You will find that growth hormones are banned and for anti-biotics only when necessary because it costs. A farmer cannot afford to stuff chemicals into animals. There is an ever increasing paperwork trail that we have to endure yet imports seem to to be prevalent.

British beef and lamb industry is one of the best in the world. The reason for the bad past history is more down to the price pressures caused by supermarkets aka the public.

I could go on and on but this kind of statement is typical of the ignorance that floats around this country. Probably not helped by some sections of the soil association.

I love it when people say I wont be eating that but you have no idea and when its in the supermarket or in restaurants you'll have no idea, some of it is processed anyway so once again you dont know what yr eating.

Maris Piper has been modified to make it into the characteristics of what is it. You might as well give up on eating.

what exactly do you mean by 'cloned' OP?