Admittedly, I'm biased when it comes to these arguments - I have a PhD (Genetics) from a well-known Vet School in the US. I don't understand the argument against cloned food or even GMO. It is a natural part of what humans have achieved by other methods - creating hybrids. Yes, I will admit having a frog gene in your FlavrSavr tomato would not have occurred by normal hybridization techniques, but it is within the same vein, and represents what humans have always done - adpated technology for increased growth.

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I live in the EU. I'm game for anything. I'll eat a cloned animal if it becomes available. As long as it's free range and organic, I'm cool with it.

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I do not want to eat cloned anything until alot more years of testing have passed. Pork...the other white meat since when ? Egg whites and yellows seem thicker than they were many years ago , chicken has more white meat....I for one wish you would leave our food supply alone.

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I knew it wouldn't be long before an anti-cloning post came along, but hadn't expected such a chuckle from it.

Want darker pork? Hunt up a Berkshire. More white pork came about with the less fat pork. No cloning, just basic breeding. Just like all fish aren't the same, all pigs aren't the same.

Eggs are going to vary with diet, ,but thicker? That's not diet, that's freshness. If you want your white to be thin and runny, let it hide in the back of the refrigerator for a month.

I have a chicken with real dark meat brining in the fridge right now. It's no special breed, it's just one that lived out of doors and has walked and flown a little. Put a chicken in a little cage all it's life ( even faux "free range" ) and dark meat won't be so dark.

So no Dr. Frankenstein at work causing those particular food issues.

Odds are that few of us will be eating any animals that are actual clones for a while. More likely is that prize bull will be cloned to enable more cows to be inseminated by his prize-winning seed. It's the next generation we'll be eating or milking.

Now bananas, those are something clone-o-phobes might want to be afraid of now.

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I can't make an airtight scientific case against eating cloned animals, but I don't really see the benefit of it either. My only real problem with the prospect is that, at least in the US, no requirement exists to label food as cloned. If no harm will come from eating cloned animals, why not educate the consumer and allow him to CHOOSE? It's the deceptive marketing practices that disturbs me most, not the sale of cloned meat.

Then again, if you're buying your meat from a grocery store, you're probably pretty woefully ignorant of what you're eating anyway. Even after it arrives at the store, a lot can go on that you don't want to know about.

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