Comments on: FDA May Clear Cloned Food, But Public Has Little Appetite http://www.healthy360.net/fda-may-clear-cloned-food-but-public-has-little-appetite/ Healthy News From 360° Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:35:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Julian http://www.healthy360.net/fda-may-clear-cloned-food-but-public-has-little-appetite/#comment-92 Julian Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:40:20 +0000 http://www.healthy360.net/?p=20#comment-92 The mega corporations have messed food up completely, Detroit killed public transport and now we are blaming us because we drive everywhere and eat junk and are becoming obese. Why should we trust these double-dealers any more. Dump oil and technology and get back to growing your own, I say, don't feed the machine. The mega corporations have messed food up completely, Detroit killed public transport and now we are blaming us because we drive everywhere and eat junk and are becoming obese. Why should we trust these double-dealers any more. Dump oil and technology and get back to growing your own, I say, don’t feed the machine.

]]> By: morale.taker` http://www.healthy360.net/fda-may-clear-cloned-food-but-public-has-little-appetite/#comment-3 morale.taker` Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:56:41 +0000 http://www.healthy360.net/?p=20#comment-3 Clone == identical twin. Would you refuse to eat meat or milk from a cow solely because it had an identical twin? No, I didn't think so. I think the problem is that people confuse cloned animals with transgene animals; transgene animals have modified genome, and while they too are exceedingly unlikely to be bad for you, that's at least within the realm of distant possibility. A clone is simply genetically identical to another completely safe animal - exactly like an identical twin. @pacodog: the point of cloning is that you clone only the best animals, so you know from the start that all the clones have good combination of genes. In ordinary breeding there's never any guarantee that any of the offspring from a high-performing animal will ever be as high-performing as the parent. Clone == identical twin.

Would you refuse to eat meat or milk from a cow solely because it had an identical twin?
No, I didn’t think so.

I think the problem is that people confuse cloned animals with transgene animals; transgene animals have modified genome, and while they too are exceedingly unlikely to be bad for you, that’s at least within the realm of distant possibility. A clone is simply genetically identical to another completely safe animal - exactly like an identical twin.

@pacodog: the point of cloning is that you clone only the best animals, so you know from the start that all the clones have good combination of genes. In ordinary breeding there’s never any guarantee that any of the offspring from a high-performing animal will ever be as high-performing as the parent.

]]> By: Luka http://www.healthy360.net/fda-may-clear-cloned-food-but-public-has-little-appetite/#comment-2 Luka Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:55:40 +0000 http://www.healthy360.net/?p=20#comment-2 I don't understand how cloning animals is cheaper and/or more effective than breeding (free, no?). I don’t understand how cloning animals is cheaper and/or more effective than breeding (free, no?).

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