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[RC] Cloning for Food - k s swigartSandy said: I just can't help it - messing with mother Nature in such a way.....just gives me the heebie jeebies. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, with so many factors at play in creating a top competitor, I don't really see the value related to cost and risk in breeding such an animal, especially those for cows or sheep or things we actually use for food. Many people may not realize this, but I am sure they have been eating cloned food for their whole lives. Can you say Granny Smith's apples or Thompson's seedless grapes (to name but a couple). Cloning for food purposes actually makes a great deal of sense. Find something you like the taste of and/or is easier/cheaper to raise, making an exact duplicate of it (rather than hoping that your sexual reproduction will create something better...but 99 times out of 100 it doesn't) sounds a very good idea to me (which is probably why people have been doing it with fruits for millenia). Cloning leaves no opportunity for improvement, but if you like what you have got, producing and eating exact duplicates makes for better tasting food or less waste than hoping for improvement and getting something worse. And if eating cloned food gives you the heebie jeebies, you had better give up eating apples...and grapes...and olives... I suspect that the technology of cloing these things was considered revolutionary at the time it was invented, but now it is so commonplace that most people don't even know that all the apples they eat are clones. kat Orange County, Calif. :) p.s. The purpose of cloning Cash was completely different from cloning food for the best qualities for mass production. I personally am of the opinion that from an equine genetics philosophy standpoint that it wasn't worth the money spent on it as I don't think the horse was "stallion quality" no matter how good of a performer he was (back to that question of whether a proven performer will make a proven producer question), but it will take these experimenters 15 years to find this out. Personally, I think they would have done better to clone Rio or Khalil...from and equine genetics standpoint, but that is just my personal opinion. "Le meilleur que je sais les hommes le plus que j'aime mon cheval."--Catherine the Great =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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