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Cloned Beef Coming Soon?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the identical-steaks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article at Popular Science cloned beef may be coming soon. It talks about using meat within 48 hours of slaughter to allow cloning the best possible specimens, something that is not possible to determine while the animal is still alive. Apparently only 1 in 8000 animals is truly the best. Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat itself without the animal. That would end all the ethical issues with raising an animal for food, potential issues from mad cow disease, bird flu and whatever the next media induced panic is."

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  1. Where do I start? by Spackler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, so many comments, so little time:

    "Personally I'd love to see us progress to the point where it was possible to grow just the meat"

    Dude. your personal issues do not belong on /.

    That would end all the ethical issues with raising an animal for food

    There is an ethical issue? Get real you pansy and eat some steaks. Even the bible says we can eat them (as long as they are uncleaven of hoof). If God didn't have a problem with it, I should?

  2. Re:Tofu? by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your self-righteousness is exceeded only by your pompous assitude.

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  3. Re:Finally, our own meat. by KanSer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This entire thread is about a disgusting _abomination_ that should never exist in the first place.

    That people are discussing it seriously is even more deleterious to my faith in humanity.

    None of this sounds like the most fucked up Pandora's Box to open on our food chain?

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