Cloned Milk and Meat to go on sale in the Uk

[MickyMacgraw]

http://uk.finance.yah...e-2362292401.html?x=0

What are your views on this "Frankenstein" food, will you purchase it especially if its cheap or are you weary of it and will be looking at every new disease that rears it's head and birth defect with a microscope especially if it was shown that the person in question were heavy users of cloned foodstuffs?

[B00]

You have been warned!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V112pTo--Js&feature=related

[R1Geezer]

all living things have evolved by natural selection. Natures "genetic engineering".

so steg you are forgiving me and condemming me at the same time! right oh! tell you what just get me smited eh?

[Davethedog]

This has only been in the food chain in this generation. So they cannot say with certainty that there are no long term effects.

When they started feeding dead sheep to cows they said that it was fine then along came BSE.

If you go back time after time where money is involved science is rushed for a profit.
Thalidomide?

I am fine with this as long as it is labeled as such so I can avoid it.

[steg]

"tell you what just get me smited eh? "
no geezer, we will walk hand in hand through the valley of the shadow of death together, you will fear no evil for i will be with you, and as we meetith St Pete i will show you the secret hand shake and we shall pass over the thresh hold to heaven together.

you know it only makes sense

[MickyMacgraw]

boo something tells me that a large amount of drugs may have been consumed to get the idea of that video in your link

[Zeuhl]

Ta Boo

that Cerrone is great - investigative journalism with a disco beat.

I think a lot of the footage in the video is from an actual research laboratory. Those poor creatures. They were really messed up genetically but at least they had a nice greenhouse to get naked in.
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[B00]

I know, innit freaky deaky Micky?

Still, i quite like the sentiments in the words, and they are kinda apt.

[B00]

heh zeuhl ;-)

[jno]

people have been doing genetic engineering for thousands of years. Dogs, for instance, which basically started as wolves - the ancient Egyptians produced dachsunds, or something similar.

Didn't eat them, as far as I know.

[MickyMacgraw]

So is cloned food going to be more or less expensive? I'm guessing that if they you have a prize bull that produces the best steak it will be pricey but then when every farmer gets their hands on one embryo and this great bull is copied everywhere this would then drive down the price as it's now mass produced? How many times can you clone 1 animal?

[B00]

Yes they did/do jno....hello? Hotdogs?

[Zeuhl]

jno

i think that's fundamentally different. Deliberate breeding for specific attributes is just helping nature along a bit. Give short legged dogs only short legged dogs to mate with and you get even shorter legs.

GM is un-natural in that it does things nature would never do - ever!

You could dump herrings onto your strawberry patch for a million years but the strawberries will never take on any of the fish genetic characteristics as they have in the laboratory.
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[R1Geezer]

DNA is only chemical chains.

[steg]

what about this (h)ear then : http://www.livescienc...chimera-mouse-ear.jpg

[steg]

i think it just done a poo

[steg]

well if you say it is ok birdie, then i'm convinced....................................
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