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I saw a while back that there was a chance that meat from cloned animals would actually be for sale in some grocery stores. I know that even the meat we get from “farm raised” animals might be hormone filled but I doubt if I would buy anything that came from a cloned animal. Would you eat cloned meat?

sure… why not.

But whats the point of cloned meat? Is it really any cheaper?

It seems like doing all of that biological stuff would add to the price.

I doubt if it would be any cheaper. Maybe it would be a way to avoid being completely dependent on certain farms or something. I don’t see that it would be any safer either.

I don’t think that I would be opposed to eating cloned meat, but I agree that it would most likely be more expensive instead of being used as a measure to cut costs.

And if they’re just cloning meat…well, how good can it be? Meat is muscle, which increases with activity. Granted that most farm raised pigs don’t get much exercise (hence all the fat deposits in bacon and fat), but beef cattle are our walking around, increasing their muscle mass and so on, and what they eat flavours the meat. What in the name of all that is holy would cloned meat taste like beyond wet cardboard? Bleh.

That’s a good point, QuietLunatic. I didn’t really think about the taste. If the meat didn’t taste too much different, I’d be fine with it. Seasoning is my friend, but if it tasted like wet cardboard… I would probably have a problem.

They found that out with some types of farmed fish—the flesh had no flavour because the fish in the farm “ponds” just weren’t all that active compared to fish in the wild. I can just imagine cloned flesh. Garg.

Thatis just too scary, who knows what it might mean in the long term like irradiated food

Re: Cloned meat

I would hope they would label it as cloned meat… and not mix it with the “regular” stuff. I know it would make a difference to many of my friends, as religion can play into that issue, and so can our comfortability levels with genetically engineered foods… it might be like selling green ketchup, it just doesn’t catch on.