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Would you eat cloned food?  

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  1. 1. Would you eat cloned food?

    • Yes
      42
    • No
      11
    • Yoda
      26


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A clone is not "the same thing" (literally, like some kind of identity crisis) it's just an identical twin of whatever. So as long as the original was conceived without defects, there shouldn't be a problem with the clone (at least at the time of conception).

 

Cloned food would be way more expensive than regular food, so I don't really see the point right now.

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Anyone against cloned food is against feeding starving children.

So certain are you?

 

More or less I have issues with cloning because of the intentions used. On the issue of food, well if I agree that if scientist should try to figure out a way to clone individual organs for transplants then I don't have a problem. I chose Yoda because of the sensitivity of the issue.

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I have nothing against cloned food, but I just had to choose Yoda. You can't go wrong with answering "Yoda" to anything and everything.

 

"Hey! I just ate this bacon yesterday!"

 

Although, on a serious note, I'm not quite sure why. I mean, why not just let (for example) the bull and the cow, uh, do their thing, and then you don't even have to bother...

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I'd eat it most likely, but only if cloning didn't go into mass production. At that point, there is a problem that occurs to me.

 

If you have too many clones, you make the food more prone to disease, since all copies would have teh same weaknesses and strengths to their immune system. Having the potatoes in Ireland too genetically similar are what led to the Irish Potato Famine that was responsible for a lot of the immigration to the US late last century and early this century. Also, that's why Dutch Elm Disease was so sucessful in wiping out much of the Elm trees in the Continental United States.

 

There's no reason to think that the same biological principles wouldnt' apply to animals as apply to our plant agricultural products.

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The FDA recently approved cloned animal products fit for human consumption. Would you eat food if you knew it was cloned?

 

I would not eat Yoda, cloned or not. :carms:

 

I voted yes, since I most likely would eat cloned food. Not necessarily by choice, since you never really know where the food you buy comes from. :)

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