Ten years after the birth of the world's first cloned animal, Dolly the Sheep, America was set yesterday to become the first country to introduce meat and milk from cloned cattle into the food supply.

After five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration, the government regulatory agency, yesterday ruled it saw no difference between conventionally raised farm animals and clones. The products of both were equally safe to eat


Cloned meat could be on next year's US Christmas menu | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited


Whatya think? Good idea or no?

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I think there is enough of the real thing out there to satisfy my taste.

If it is sold as cloned meat I hope they have it labeled as such.I'd rather wait another 5 years or so to see if the FDA is right.

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But if the perfect beef cow is cloned, you would get a perfect steak? If so, sign me up.

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A 5 year study isn't long enough for me. From what I understand, the long term effects are a concern for the animals health.

I'm not going to eat that shit if I'm not sure.

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Wouldn't it be cheaper to produce new animals the normal way than cloning them?

Also, if we start cloning animals, that will reduce the diversity of their resistances. Take bananas for example. Because of breeding, all bananas are the same type. So if there was a disease that this type wasn't resistant to, bananas could go extinct. If we start cloning animals, we have the same risk.

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I just heard they might not have to label the meat because it doesn't have added ingredients . Thank you agriculture lobbyists .

I want to be told what I'm eating.

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Tumble--I think most people will not be so thrilled with this turn, for they are afraid it will lead to the cloning of people. My humor is sometimes missed sorry, I love staek and if a perfect one can to found, I would be all for it. And yes, I would like a clone of myself, I would hate to lose all this brilliance. LOL

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I thought your humor was fine CHAQ.

I just can't help feeling someone is trying to pull a fast one by not labeling the meat. I guess they figure what I don't know won't hurt me.

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I, personally, do not "trust" the F.D.A.
For example... I have had rheumatoid arthritis since I was 26 y/o. I was on Vioxx for 5 years, they told me it was the "newest miracle drug"... yeah yeah. Now what do we hear about it?

I'm not a vegetarian, but it really makes you think of becoming one. Cloned beef? The question I ask myself is "Why?" We got by all this time with regular beef, so why mess with it?

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I believe the first word that popped into my head was --PROFIT! I mean in the supermarket there are veggies that have been irradiated and manipulated so that they have a longer shelf life. And please do not get me started on the perservative thing. I guess what I am trying to say is that if it did not grow in your backyard, we must trust them to give us the truth about the item. Whoever they are.

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