Slog - Comments on Clone Burger

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:10:08 -0800

Um, no. The quality of meat isn't determined by genetics, it's determined by feed and pasture conditions.

A clone of the greatest steak in the history of the world that's finished in a typical feedlot, up to its belly in shit and mud, feeding on beef tallow and corn, is going to be just as shitty as the past-pull-date plastic-tray gunk at Walmart.

Anybody who thinks that they're going to be interested in cloning "quality" meat, as opposed to meat that can withstand rougher treatment, is living in a dream world.

Comment by Jonah S

Jonah S — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:10:33 -0800

I just want to know if eating a cloned baby will be illegal in the year 2050. It's not like it's a REAL person or anything.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:15:37 -0800

Yes, will we be allowed to kill clones? Rape? All the good stuff?

Comment by giffy

giffy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:21:58 -0800

I'm not really sure why people get all worked up about cloning, whether it be people or animals. Essentially your talking about identical twins born at different times. No one has silly debates about whether twins have rights/souls/freedom or any other nonsense, so why have them about clones.

And the moment your talking about agriculture your left the realm of the natural. There are no fields of wheat, fat ass dairy cows, or most of the fruit we eat in nature.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:33:50 -0800

What do you mean? Identical twins are horrifying freaks of nature.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:35:11 -0800

Except Tegan and Sara. Them I like.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:48:05 -0800

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Sigh.

This is just wrong, as is the decision not to label cloned milk and cloned meat.

Comment by maxine

maxine — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:48:16 -0800

So glad I went vegetarian.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:49:53 -0800

True, they taste better, @8.

;-)

Comment by seattle98104

seattle98104 — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:54:50 -0800

@8, as a vegetarian, cloning is just as relevant to our food supply as it is to everyone elses meat supply. GMO crops have been around and approved for freaking ever. So not exactly sure what your comment is trying to express.

Comment by Judah

Judah — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:59:34 -0800

I'd never eat cloned meat because I just don't trust people to get shit like this right, but the idea that there could be meat that didn't come from an animal, and therefore didn't result in a complex social animal -- like a pig -- being killed does sort of appeal to me in the abstract.

Comment by Bridgette

Bridgette — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:01:47 -0800

@7--who's cloning milk? and just how the hell are they doing it?

Comment by mikeblanco

mikeblanco — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:46:54 -0800

I guess the controversy may be over unless you've been suffering for years from one of the disorders that could have been cured but wasn't, then you might still feel a little hostile.

Anybody who is opposed to fetal stem cell research and is not in favor of closing all in vitro fertilization clinics either doesn't understand what's going on, or is a SOB who should be flogged.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:04:31 -0800

How will cloned meat be cost effective exactly?

Let's see. Getting a bull to fuck a cow: pretty much free. Cloning a cow: hundreds of thousands of dollars? Millions of dollars?

That shit's going to be more expensive than Kobe beef.

Comment by Layna

Layna — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:00:10 -0800

11 - Cloning produces a plant or animal genetically identical to the one the cloned cell was taken from. A cloned pig is the same complex social animal as any other pig, and it would be killed to produce the meat. I'm not sure how this could be any different from making pigs the old-fashioned way.