Study: Cloned Animals' Meat, Milk Meets Industry Standards

[Kadie]

Study: Cloned Animals' Meat, Milk Meets Industry Standards
FDA Says It Will Review Findings

POSTED: 2:45 pm PDT April 11, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Worried about what kind of meat and milk cloned animals would produce? A new study says you don't need to be.

The study found meat and milk from cloned bulls and cows is essentially identical to that from animals that reproduced normally, and that they meet industry standards.

University of Connecticut researchers cloned a Japanese Black beef bull and Holstein dairy cow, using somatic cell nuclear transfer -- the same technique used to clone Dolly the sheep. The researchers compared the meat and milk from the clones to that of animals of similar age, genetics and breed.

They found the meat from the clones had a slightly higher marbling content than that from the comparison animals. Increased marbling is considered a benefit in beef. No other significant differences were found in the meat or the milk.

more...
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/health/4368743/detail.html

[htuttle]

1. Someday, beef will be grown in long shallow vats, sans the cow

Yum, yum!

[da_chimperor]

2. That gives potted meat a whole new meaning

[Blue Belle]

3. I'm sorry... but how does this not scare the hell out of people??

Does this not strike anyone else as inherently wrong?? Pretty soon we're all just going to be living on food pellets like they do on the Jetsons.

[htuttle]

6. Push the green lever for a food pellet

Push the red lever for a blast from a Taser.

Run through the maze to your job, even though the bastards keep moving it everyday. But don't stand in one place too long, or the SWAT teams will tackle you and blow up your luggage...

:crazy:

[tubbacheez]

5. Not strongly related to the article, though.

Yes, you're probably right. Factory farms would love to crank out meat without all that messy livestock raising.

But the article is just talking about the properties of meat and milk from cloned animals... not tissue cultures.

[tubbacheez]

4. No surprise here. A clone is just like an identical twin of the original.

The biggest threat is to the diversity of the gene pool, supposing the food industry adopts cloned animals in large numbers.

Then, just like with the famous potato famine in Ireland, one disease could wipe out sizable chunks of the industry and famine could result.

[customerserviceguy]

11. Famine for meat eaters, only

Why should the vegetarian/vegans here mind that?

[tubbacheez]

16. Interesting tangent to my reply post, but since you asked...

Our vegetarian and vegan friends are part of our interdependant web of life, right alongside our carnivore and omnivore friends.




Plus, vegetarianism isn't for everybody.
http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html




Peace on your path.

[tanyev]

7. Not hard to do when your industry standards are set quite low.

[SpiralHawk]

8. I'll have a clone burger, with irradiated cheese, please

Like hell I will. i spit in the general direction of this crappy food. Huck-toooey. Call me a fundamentalist if you must, but I like my vittles the way Mother Nature serves them up, not Amalgamated Bio-Chem-Crop-Corp.

Here's a link to the ROAD TO SALVATION. It's a page with links to several stories on CSA -- Community Supported Agriculture. Now, I feel, is the time to act.

http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms.html

[mbperrin]

9. I'm sure that it DOES meet INDUSTRY standards -

it's dead and can be fit into containers, right?

And ESSENTIALLY? ESSENTIALLY, humans and chimps are the same (hell,one got selected pResident, right?)

We need this cause why? Cause cows don't reproduce no more? Cause all the bulls gone lazy? Amazing, the shit that goes on to solve a problem that doesn't exist, but is a great step toward eliminating all individuality.

[warrens]

10. Oy

I cover the meat industry and I went to UConn. I think I want to see a nice 20-year study before I believe this. I have no reason to DIS-believe it, only the knowledge that this would be a huge money maker for the industry, so the likelihood of negative results being reported are slim.

Just for example, the reasons why some cattle who eat bad feed and never develop Mad Cow, while their herdmate develops the disease, are unknown. But it's probably genetic. Messing with genetics could have three results. One is no change. One is better protection. The other is widespread BSE or new and undetectable mutations of the disease. There have been two cases of an entirely new strain of the disease lately. Where did they come from? Conventional tests can't detect the new strain. How many new and potentially deadly strains can slip under the screen when we get to cloning?

[Selteri]

12. It looks like progress, especially if one wants to transport meat

outside of earth, eing able to clone off the cows annd other meat-protien products could be a huge assistance when we do finally leave the cradle.

[Voltaire99]

13. Let them eat cloned bull!

If you trust the US meat industry's standards then by all means, gobble up!

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

14. Racks of cloned "muscle cells"-no need for live cows-mmm good delicious !

snip...
and on this new hi-tech cell reproduction rack you may view our famous top sirloin muscle cells! And over here we're growing the ribeye variety,.. and on the other side we have those tender rump roast muscle cells reproducing at and incredible rate!!..how wonderful cell cloning is---remember these are from only top quality DNA...
and we can reproduce up to 50 thousand tons of these delicious cells a day.

But for those of you who prefer the old fashioned way, we have some very cute young animals out back in the petting zoo--You can execute one if you wish with the furnished pistols, one shot between the eyes please, and we will skin and chainsaw the dead animal for you so you can take home your favorite pieces.

A LOOK into the crystal bone--
utterly delicious...

Would ja git me that there barbeekew sause Wilma!

[despairing optimist]

15. Mary had a little lamb, and when she saw it sicken,

she sent it off to Cloning Land and now it's labeled chicken.

[wschalle]

17. Love that

picture...

[slackmaster]

18. So can I get two dozen absolutely identical prime ribeye steaks?

:D

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

20. yep, fresh out of the muscle tissue peitre dish

just add the au jus and some bacteria

[slackmaster]

19. Dupe

mouse-clicky error.