It's it's okay okay to to eat eat cloned cloned animals animals

Brian Ambrozy 15 Jan, 2008 at 1:52am ET Article published in Tech

While Icrontic is a “tech journal” for the most part, I find this story to be historically significant and yet techy “enough” that I’ll report it.

50 years from now, the history books will probably fail to record today’s date as the launch of the MacBook Air (which is getting top headlines ’round the wibble), but they will most certainly mention today’s date as the day the Food and Drug Administration thumbs-upped the sale and consumption of meat from cloned animals.

After a 968-page “risk assessment” asserts that “Food products derived from cattle, swine, and goat clones pose no more risk than food derived from sexually reproduced animals,” the FDA still goes on to say that more research and data is needed.

You won’t be eating cloned beef anytime soon – mostly because a clone costs about $20,000 to make. However, offspring from cloned animals may very well find their way to your dinner plates within the next five years if you live in the US.

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15 Jan 2008 ~ 1:59pm CB Eventually you'll be able to just buy some stem cells from the animal you want to eat some of, then you can take them home to your personal under-the-cabinet mounted accelerated cloning tank, and program in what part you want to eat.

"Hey Honey, I want to make blackened lemon-pepper chicken with rice again tomorrow night. That was good when we had it right?"

"Yes, dear"

"Can you start some chicken breasts growing for me while I'm out at the Wal-Mart Superonlystore?"

"Yes, dear."
15 Jan 2008 ~ 1:59pm BuddyJ nom nom nom
15 Jan 2008 ~ 2:31pm primesuspect Leeloo is cleaning her plate... again. Father Vito Cornelius stares on in rapt amazement - not sure how to handle this "supreme being" who keeps eating everything she can get her hands on. Leeloo goes over to a machine resembling a microwave, inserts her empty plate, presses a button, and one second later removes a plate filled with a whole roasted chicken.

LEELOO: CHICK-EN. MMMMMM

FATHER VITO CORNELIUS: Yes... You like Chicken...... Hmmmm.
15 Jan 2008 ~ 3:23pm Thrax I'm in. Whatever. It's food.
15 Jan 2008 ~ 5:26pm NiGHTS **** THE FDA!
17 Jan 2008 ~ 1:17pm Hawk This is only the beginning....
In the future you'll be able to eat a tomato that taste like hamburger.
And it will have all the benefits of the tomato & beef, as in vitamins, minerals & protein.
Animal to plant or vis versa.
All due to the advances of gene splicing.
We are already eating cloned plant foods.
Gene manipulation of plants and animals is going to be the norm.
As scary as it sounds.