Controvery over offspring of cloned cattle

[daylan b]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11322803

That story story surprised me a bit because the offspring of cloned animals are widespread in our foodchain here in the U.S.

While cloned cattle themselves are WAY too expensive to do anything but be used for semen or embryo production, their offspring are widely available. In all likelihood, if you eat beef, you've already eaten the offspring of or the decendants of cloned bulls or even drank milk from cloned dairy cows.

How many people actually realize this?

[dipsydoodle]

1. Rec'd

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[damntexdem]

2. I scream 'clone'!

[SPedigrees]

3. Cloning produces a replica. Genetic modification is what scares me.

Plant dna can be spliced with insect dna or subjected to other unnatural changes, and once created, it is out there in the winds of cross polination. No putting that genie back into the bottle. There has to be a reason that GM corn oil has carcinogenic properties.

A cloned cow is still a cow, as are its offspring.

[daylan b]

4. For the record, I have no issue with cloned beef.

I have yet to see any scientific evidence that indicates there's the slightest bit of concern over cloned beef. In fact, we have quite a few offspring of cloned cattle running in our fields.

I do however, believe in people knowing what they are eating.