Eating cloned food ok in the US.

Hobbes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6215541.stm

Although I didn't even know they had started cloning foodstuffs as cloning process still isn't great. Just a bit scary that they have already OK'ed the selling of it as food.

mr_angry

Hmmm. Surely if you'd eat the original, you'd have no problem eating the clone, right? I mean... cloning might not quite match the original exactly, but Daisy the Sheep (or whatever she was called) was still most definitely a sheep.

Hobbes

As I recall daisys DNA was at old age when it was born. The thing with cloning is your cloning the older dna, not the new stuff. When they grow up they are not the same as the original.

humanji

Hobbes wrote:

As I recall daisys DNA was at old age when it was born. The thing with cloning is your cloning the older dna, not the new stuff. When they grow up they are not the same as the original.

So they're older and wiser!

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with eating cloned foods. Just as long as it's tasty, I don't really care. Plus, it could be a way of sorting out world hunger and all that (although in reality, I'm sure it'll just be another excuse to screw over the poor somehow).

exCrumlinBoyo

I would not be in favor of eating cloned food. I am sure its alright, but I am funny when it comes to food in any case. Call it my weird thing…..

Here in the starts they are okaying it, but what bothers me is that the FDA dose not require the producers of the cloned food to mark it so that Joe Public knows he is buying cloned food and not the normal stuff.

Just the thoughts of it is enough to put me of to be honest. I suppose if it tastes the same and its not going to harm you and you don’t know, it wont hurt..

Irishpimpdude

They must be cloning humans already

lostexpectation

why would breed they cloned animals, they must be genetically modifying them to too, so it cloned and gmo'd... wonderful