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Cloned meat

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  • 27-06-2013 10:56am
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    Lord Derpington
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    So scientists in Japan have cloned a mouse from a single drop of blood and in total have created nearly 600 exact genetic copies of one mouse after 25 consecutive rounds of cloning.
    The research is aimed at large-scale production of high-quality animals for farming or conservation purposes.

    Link to article

    The idea that you could find the best beef and just clone it forever is great, but I'm not sure I'm very comfortable with the idea.
    Conservation purposes is a great idea IMO, hell if they took cloning to the extreme we could eat any and every animal we want again, the rare ones are bound to be the tastiest.

    What do you think AH?


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    OneArt
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    I don't know why they're bothering cloning animals when the tastiest animal is in plentiful supply all around us.

    Humans.


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    kneemos
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    Do Do's must have been well tasty.


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    Sauve
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    T-Rex steaks.
    Nyom!


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    Hardonraging
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    Sauve wrote: »
    T-Rex steaks.
    Nyom!


    Jaysus think of the protein !!!!!


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    wildlifeboy
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    i would eat a cloned steak


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    kneemos
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    Sauve wrote: »
    T-Rex steaks.
    Nyom!

    Wouldn't make sense to breed meat eaters.


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    super_furry
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    Sauve wrote: »
    T-Rex steaks.
    Nyom!

    Probably not possible yet, but Mammoth steaks could well be.


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    kjl
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    wildlifeboy wrote: »
    i would eat a cloned steak

    I could eat a cloned mouse.


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    Wabbit Ears
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    Cloning in the form of cuttings and tissue culture is used extensively in mushroom and fruit farming. Cloning to mass produce a good specimen of an animal is just good farming practice.

    People often confuse cloning with genetic modification but they are completely separate things.


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    Dravokivich
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Wouldn't make sense to breed meat eaters.

    Genetically modify'em not to have teeth.


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    rubadub
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    Lord Derpington wrote: »
    the rare ones are bound to be the tastiest.
    On that QI program I think they were saying some giant tortoise species went extinct as they were all eaten. I think they were transporting it back and all the sailors kept eating them.


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    Lord Derpington
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    Each whaling ship would collect between 500-600 tortoises to provide fresh meat for their crews. It has been written that “whaling skippers were almost lyrical in their praise of tortoise meat, terming it far more delicious than chicken, pork or beef”. They said the meat of the giant tortoise was “succulent meat and the oil from their bodies as pure as butter,
    Source

    Damn that sounds like one hell of a tasty animal!


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    Sauve
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Wouldn't make sense to breed meat eaters.

    Just breed more food for the meat-eaters. And give humans big guns :cool:
    super_furry wrote: »
    Probably not possible yet, but Mammoth steaks could well be.

    That sounds pretty nice actually. Damn I'm hungry...


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    Hardonraging
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    Sauve wrote: »
    Just breed more food for the meat-eaters. And give humans big guns :cool:



    That sounds pretty nice actually. Damn I'm hungry...


    I'm about to have some Steak now !!!


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    crazy cabbage
    Registered Users Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    So you could in theory clone yourself and then eat the clone.

    Wonder what i taste like?


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    MOC88
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    Some of that protein food they had in cloud atlas in the future part - it'd be grand


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