Should cloned animals be used for food?
Good for the food industry? But not maybe so good for us.
Your thoughts and opinions are welcomed.
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However, currently, artificial cloning technology is not perfected. In fact, given current methods of cloning, cloned animals are not as healthy as the original, so the best anyone could make for the case is that they'd be puting the clones out of their misery, and the more obvious case is that now not only are we going to be killing an animal to eat it, we're going to make them suffer more in the meantime before doing so.
However, what makes a lot more sense is vat-production of the meats that we want from the animals.
If we've got the technolgoy to clone an animal, we've got the technology to take out just some muscle tissue, and trigger that to grow in a vat, to produce just a vat of muscle tissue, and in fact, technology like that is used to produce expensive skin-replacement for burn victums.
All we have to do is get the cost down, and the way to do that is use methods of mass production like are being abused in the mass operation of factory farms, to just "ferment" the cells of the tissues that we want to eat.
Once scaled up, it would be a lot cheeper than operating a factory farm, because you can just feed the vat basic nutrients, and it would be easier to keep sterile so you wouldn't have to worry about abuses of anibiotics, and it would be more efficient, because all the food energy of the suplements would be going to grow the food tissue instead of all those other parts of the food that the animal craps out and/or becomes body parts sent to the rendering plant.
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I believe animals have souls as well, but how do you know a cloned animal doesn't have a soul? I'm asking this honestly, not sarcastically, as I've toyed with becoming a vegan just because I hate what they do to animals to produce meat. It's not like old Betsy living out her years in a field happy and content and then when she drops dead of natural causes they butcher her. Oh no! The beef you eat is processed in the most profitable (and horrifying) way possible, making horrible lives for the animals, feeding them a mixture of their own fecal matter and shredded newspaper to cut down on the cost of feed. The meat we all eat comes from the most horrible life we could ever imagine a creature living on this Earth.
In my opinion, as long as it's a source of energy there's not an issue. I would never raise a chicken and then later on eat it, but if someone else would prepare it for me I don't have a problem eating it. Same with cloned animals, after all I wouldn't see it being butchered.
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Now, this is coming from a man who still believes that when it comes to nutrition, it is better to eat then not eat!
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This is why I said "not without adequate testing." I then gave the argument as to why some people believe this. It's those same people who go around calling such genetically altered food sources "frankenfood."
The whole point of cloning is that they are exactly the same as the animal that was cloned, genetically. You need some reason to think otherwise. But there has been testing, and no differences have been found.
On the other hand yes. We have been eating genetic modified and cloned crops for hundreds if not thousands of years. Of course, it depends on your definition of cloning. Plants have been cloned from its parent plant since there has been farming.
Animals and plans have been crossbread with out a lab to get the best traits desired by the farmer.
Remember a cloned animal is simply the implaning the DNA nuclues of an unfertilized egg from a removed nucleus that has been removed.
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I will give you a 100% guarantee that if you ask a hungry person if the want to eat a cloned anything they will say yes.
I have been working with the less fortunate and often starving people of Southern NH for 2 years.
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