Comments on: Cloned meat and dairy products — safe or not safe to eat?

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:26:52 +0000

I’m 15 and writing a paper on biotechnology and cloning for my biology class.In my opinion, Meat is meat and if I’m hungry, I’ll eat it!! To me, it is an average burger and I don’t mind it has a “unnatural” twin. If the man upstairs didn’t want us to clone the animals, he wouldn’t have made it possible and if he didn’t want us to eat the cloned animals, he’d have made us not such a hungry human race!!!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:33:20 +0000

Thumbs down, definately on cloned animals!! I don’t know much about any of the local grocery stores. I know my best bet is to shop at Mollie Stones, an independent grocery store; carrying Certified Organic Beef. There is labeling required! They use a small dairy farmer that only breeds organic beef on his farm. The animals roam free and eat of luscious green grass. These animals are fed only green pasture land, never fed in feed lots. Thank God for California and the California Certified Organic Farmers.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:04:56 +0000

Dolly, the first cloned sheep, only lived to age six. The average lifespan of sheep is eleven to twelve years. My interpretation of “cloned meat,” therefore, is stuff that should have had an expiration date already recognized by the seller.

If FDA can’t even get cat and dog food right, the thought of them fooling around with human food to this degree is scary. I can picture it now: “Cloned beef recall.”

I agree that the purpose of creating animal life should not be to keep it in a stall for human consumption.

By: bhf

bhf — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:00:09 +0000

Anti-cloning people, give me the data. I see a lot of dooms-day stories, but no “meat” to the story. I am not fully convinced that the industry is safe from scrupulous vendors of poor quality cloning, but that is where we should focus. If someone wants to eat meat, they should be able to have that choice. We should not have to hear any anti-meat propaganda disguised as a real fear in anything that might contain meat.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:12:00 +0000

I just can’t see that much difference between cloning and conventional breeding. If cloning becomes mainstream, the frequency of unviable offspring will be greatly reduced. The biggest danger I see is to the farmer; an entire herd of cloned animals might be suceptible to some disease that can wipe them all out. If that farm has been strongly inbreeding its cattle, the same thing can happen. I don’t understand what this mystery “unsafeness” is surrounding cloning.

We’ve all been eating cloned plants all our lives.

I’d much rather focus on the lives of the animals themselves, rather than how they were conceived. I’d rather eat chicken from birds that lived in a flock, as opposed to tiny, individual, torturous cages. I’d rather the milk I drink come from cows that don’t spend their entire lives standing in their own manure on some feed lot. I’d rather than the animals are killed humanely.