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FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows
phantomlord writes "The FDA is currently set to allow beef and milk from cloned animals onto the market. Further, the products will likely not be branded as such and there is no way to know if we're currently consuming products from cloned animals." From the article: "Farmers and companies that have been growing cloned barnyard animals from single cells in anticipation of a lucrative market say cloning will bring consumers a level of consistency and quality impossible to attain with conventional breeding, making perfectly marbled beef and reliably lean and tasty pork the norm on grocery shelves. But groups opposed to the new technology, including a coalition of powerful food companies concerned that the public will reject Dolly-the-Lamb chops and clonal cream in their coffee, have not given up."
Bonsai Kitten ?
Genetically modifying creatures by importing features outside their genome is bad.
Its like trying to fit a square peg through a round hole (hence the kitten analogy..)
Cross breed the required features in, find the strongest bull you can and mate it with the best cow and get the nicest meat. Tour the world looking for those genetic features you require, but for gawds sake keep within the animal boundaries.
If 2 animals can mate and are genetically compatible enough to bring their own offspring into the world then its a damn site safer than trying to mate a cow with a fish or some such madness.
liqbase
All mortal beings are subject to being 'deceased'.
It's part of the circle of life according to Elton John.
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I see. You're not only a spammer, but you claim expertise in a field which, to judge from your stance against formal scholarship, you have no qualifications in, and the missionary tone of your writing, instead of dispassionate commentary, is cult-like.
I think i'm a clone now, cus there's always two of me just a moo-ing around....
Have you read my journal today?