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2005-10-10 Science & Technology

Cloned beef already primed and ready to eat

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Posted by .com 2005-10-10 04:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We have been eating cloned food for many hundreds of years. Apples, pears, plums and bananas are all cloned. Of course you never hear this in the MSM.

Posted by phil_b 2005-10-10 05:00|| 2005-10-10 05:00|| Front Page Top

#2 The "yuck factor" is some pretty funny shit. No 4-H folks in that group... These are the people who think meat just magically happens and don't know where eggs come from, heh. Bet they eat escargot, yet think snails are "icky". Morons.

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 05:02|| 2005-10-10 05:02|| Front Page Top

#3 We're not talking about vat-grown protein, but farm-raised beef that happens to have an unusual parentage. Where's the (ahem) beef?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-10 07:27|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-10 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder what the implications are for the cow gene pool and the disease resistance of a herd of clones. But that's the cowmen's problem, not mine, until a problem forces the price of beef o the ceiling.

Posted by Glailing Gloluting9096 2005-10-10 08:19|| 2005-10-10 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 The cow gene pool is already heavily manipulated. The bull 'stud books' are amazingly detailed as to the various characteristics of offspring, including feed to meat ratios, growth rates etc. A very large proportion of at least beef cattle are bred using frozen semen from selected bulls and I believe the same is somewhat true in dairy herds as well. Not only does this provide more predictable yields for ranchers/farmers, it also avoids things like brucellosis, a venereally transmitted disease that can cause the male to go infertile. (Not good for the female mammal either, and it can spread to humans through cuts etc.)

Posted by lotp 2005-10-10 08:26|| 2005-10-10 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The cow gene pool is already heavily manipulated

King Kong was a Great Ape.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-10 09:58|| 2005-10-10 09:58|| Front Page Top

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