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XD yep. I am not entirely sure if I am right on that definition however. I am feeling a bit sluggish today, so I have no effort to look it up. I am just telling you what I vaguely remember form biology, so don't trust my words...

I'll look it up later. :(

For once, I actually agree with what you're saying.

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I think sometimes due to genetic problems, but mostly, as I remember from biology, cloning is a special way of extremely controlled-by-human breeding.

Actually technically cloning is just the producing of an exact copy of oneself. So your cells clone everyday. And plants and stuff.

Artificial cloning is the same thing it's just that there's a human doing it, fertilizing an egg with the same DNA and stuffs.

Honestly there is no difference between a cloned cow and a regular cow. If the DNA is taken like rite at birth and stuff, because the DNA in the cloned cow will be as old at conception as it was (meaning damage and stuff to it) when it was taken. So this constant aging of DNA could lead to Genetic deformities and we would need to be careful to keep regularly breeding cows though, because if we have to continue to take constantly aging DNA that increases the chance for genetic deformities.

Not that most deformities would actually effect the consumer.

But I doubt that anyone would be dumb enough to allow cloning to go on without a control.

What I think people's problem with cloning animals is that they are afraid of genetically altered clones. Because as we all know tampering with genetics is not a refined science as of yet (I think, but I'm probably wrong, as long as you know what the genomes do).

This is all a product of hippies, ignorance, and the media. And people with organic cow fetish.

Nobody quote this post and say Irony because I will murdalize you.

clones generally don't have genetic problems, and even if they do, most genetic problems don't carry over to the meat. if they do, they won't use them.

if there were actual issues with the meat physically that would cause harm to anyone eating it, the FDA wouldn't have approved it. and as far as ethics go, **** ethics. cloned animals don't deserve better treatment or anything. who the hell would say "this steak is from a cloned cow, and that's just wrong. I'd much rather eat this steak from the genetically identical cow that created that clone in the first place"?

what most uninformed people think when they imagine the word clone, they imagine some machine where the cow goes in, and then 5 cows come out, magically, they don't grow up or anything.

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*Copyright*

That's what I said.

Kind of.

In a more obtuse run-around fashion, but whatever.

I didn't read your post

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I didn't read your post

Well I didn't read yours either.

The science of genetics and bioengineering is one of the most strictly regulated of any in modern times. If the FDA approves of it, you can be sure it has gone through more checklists than the average prescription drug. So many thousands of experiments and tons of data must be collected in order to prove that one small genetic change is not malevolent. If anything, cloned cow meat is more safe to eat than your typical bag of Dorito's or that bowl of cereal you had for breakfast.

http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/regulation/reg.html

That might inform some of you.

if there was a way toclone things like cows the goverment whould take it and proboly clone soldiers or sumthin so they can win lots of wars

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if there was a way toclone things like cows the goverment whould take it and proboly clone soldiers or sumthin so they can win lots of wars

wow guys looks like we've got a genius right here