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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. I, for one... by jrobinson5 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...welcome our new cloned beef overlords.

  2. This would seem to be safer than regular beef by the_humeister · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And more ethical. No need to slaughter all those cows now (not that we really need to for our abundant food supply anyway). And there won't be the risk of getting CJD since there should be no neural tissue.