What if you could carve off a chunk of the most succulent slab of steak you´ve ever eaten, clone a bull from it, then produce weeks of identically delectable dinners?
Thinking about the possible long term effects of eating cloned beef. It seem to close to cannibalism and interbreading to not affect us in later years. The lack of research concerns me and my industry in what will happen to "REAL BEEF"? It's like consuming your own kind in a way.Hasn't mad cow tought us anything about what interfering with nature can and will do. If we as humans respond negativly to interbreading, producing birth defects and infant death, wouldn't the cow assume the same fate? and would we want to be putting that into our systems? What long term dammage would it cause to us and the livestock??? I understand the need for our farming community to find new and inovative ways of creating income. I'm just not sure this is the way to go about it. I think if this will work in the future, we will need way more research time to come to a pregmatic conclusion that will only have a positive outcome. Further more if we begin to mass produce beef through cloning, will we not possibly loose the natrual blood line of the species? because cloning will replace the need for natural breeding. Therefore making the natrual blood line extinct, and once extinct theirs no going back. You've erased mother natures' map of natural evolution, thereby stunting the entire species growth. And were will it stop? Signed Angry Chefs of Canada
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