Think of how great it will be to not just watch 10 percent of animals get sick from a disease, but 100 percent of all of them to literally DIE from it.

Oh my this will make Avian Bird Flu (H5N1) look like a wonderful thing ....

I LOVE America!!!

I mean, if I were a rancher that raised organic cattle and bred from a variety of bulls, I'd be all for this. It would mean tons more money for me. But I think big agribusiness is being shortsighted.

Can we breed a cow that produces far less methane, and clone it mercilessly? Given that livestock are a significant contributor to environmental destruction, would this not be progress?

Cloning all other animals = delicious

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http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/15-11/ff_clonedmeat

Can't wait for the first "Long Pig" stand to open up on the Hill!

Palpatine in 2008!

Maybe Ms. B could have spend around 20 seconds on a google search to corroborate her claim that the FDA merely "looked at" the animals to assess their safety. Maybe she could have also spent around 5 minutes learning how farm-animal cloning works. It isn't really possible for cloning to generate "dangerous" meat.

But of course, I know journalists have more important things to do than research the claims they make in their work...

The nucleases, lipases, amylases and proteases in our digestive tract reduce the animal/plant to it's constitutent amino acids, nucleic acids, lipids and simple sugars. This basic stuff all goes into us and is synthesized into more of us...

Sure, everything doesn't get broken down precisely, but assuming clones are the same as their predecessor, if you would have eaten the uncloned predecessor, why wouldn't you eat the clone? It's the same animal (in theory).

Doesn't make any sense to me, but then the world is a place that I don't get...

Also, I note that predators in the wild almost always eat the sick and the weak first. Tigers, lions, wolves etc. don't seem to be doing too badly (but for human encroachments) for eating sick and weak prey. Why would it be any different than us?

Finally, can anyone point to a single animal that our species has ever eaten that has demonstrably harmed us?

Beef may not be best for you (in terms of heart disease), but I'm not seeing that any particular animal as food is "bad" for us. Sure, some are definitely better than others, but hey, who wants to live forever? Me, I'll take the odd tasty steak now and again.

The Wet One

Leaving aside what happens when the same DNA male breeds with the same DNA female, it creates all the conditions needed for wildfire disease contagion and lack of immunity to many more common diseases. Part of what keeps you alive when some people get sick is they're not you - they are slightly different.

This is why evolution works - our differences allow us to adapt to our conditions, over time.

Even babies are preprogrammed based on the mothers prior birth experiences and the mothers environment - if you are born during famine times, you will be preprogrammed to be more efficient.

Now, any more questions, go crack open some biology texts.