Would you consume products from a cloned animal?

05 August 2010 | 11:54:19 AM| Source: SBS

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Would you consume products from a cloned animal?

Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow has entered the British food chain, amid concerns about the ethical and safety standards.

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With a later admission that there could be up to 100 descendants of the cloned animal the question is: Would you consume products from a cloned animal?

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23 Nov 2010 1:42 AEST

Stephen T

From: Preston

Choice

Give us a choice to choose, its our basic rights. Lets us know if the meat comes from cloned animal. They say that most cloned animal have been born with defect, we haven't mastered the technique. We seek animals that are healthy and fit, and breed the animals toward these level. If the people who are cloning the animals are confident this technique is safe, than give us a choice, we as people will eventually choose if its safe. Please don't hide this from us

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23 Sep 2010 21:52 AEST

John for BBC news Africa

From: Sydney

Israel dirty game behind Cloning Human Parts

"Netcare's hospital in Durban allegedly conducted more than 100 operations in 2001-03 in which poor Brazilians and Romanians were paid to donate kidneys to wealthy Israelis."

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03 Sep 2010 21:22 AEST

Stephanie B

From: Liverpool, nsw

Animal activist

As an avid animal rights promoter, i believe that cloning just makes the process of eating animals worse. I just wish animals had the right to express what they believe in. I wish that animals and humans could somehow interact to avoid further destruction to the environment. When will humans recognize that there is a limit to these things. Far out, one day for sure when will pay the price for what we have contributed. These massive, manipulative corporations will one day pay the price!

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31 Aug 2010 23:31 AEST

rob gryph

From: rural sa

easy fixed, don't buy the stuff

I work in the live meat industry and my old boss and health safety inspector recommends we don't touch pig nor paltry. A pig is not a pig. Evidence would suggest that observation to be true. Since catching our own fresh fish and buying only local grown vegetables my family are feeing much more healthy than we were on corporate food.

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25 Aug 2010 20:20 AEST

nickolai kalshnikav

From: perm russia

no

no. i hate cloning. if they could clone animals for food in the future they might clone humans for armies imagine a army with 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 people in it.

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21 Aug 2010 20:00 AEST

Manmeet

From: Sydney

Never

Let animals live their life too. They are not our food. Be vegetarian.

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19 Aug 2010 11:08 AEST

Fiona

From: Melbourne

??

There's no need for cloning animals anyway. There's enough food in the world to sustaian everybody. It just ends up in the wrong stomachs.

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18 Aug 2010 16:49 AEST

John

From: Mooroolbark

Jack the Lad

No, but then I'm a vegetarian.

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16 Aug 2010 13:05 AEST

Clavdivs

From: Sydney

@Progression? Taste and quantity

Inbreeding has already reduced the gene pool. Look at agriculture - are apples becoming extinct? http://lifelessonsmilitarywife.blogspot.com/2008/04/are-apples-becoming-extinct.html Look at bees in the USA - They had to bring bees in from Australia - what happened to their bees? What are the effects of eating clones that are bread for meat? The healthiest meat is game, the next is free range, the worst is cloned. Want quantity? Give animals cancer and eat tumours.

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15 Aug 2010 17:48 AEST

Progression

From: Geelong

Mr

Providing we keep about a million non-cloned animals from each species, lack of genetic variation will never be a problem. Cloning can improve taste and quantity, but more importantly we can use it to replicate the animals that require less grain to grow so that we aren't wasting as much. The cows, chickens and pigs that we eat have been crossed and then inbred so much that they're basically clones - so just go vegetarian if it bothers you!

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