Cloning. No Longer A Scientific Novelty?

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  1. ••GHoST••

    ••GHoST•• Well-Known Member

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    Yeah like $3 steak...ahhhh Man that would be awesome :P
     
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    This sounds interesting, and a cheap steak does sound good right now... :blink:
     
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    Correction, a cheap good steak. Because, cheap steak = bad.
     
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    Very true my friend.


    OK cheap Filleh Minan <(absolutely no idea how to spell it :tongue: )
     
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    xlink GR's Tech Enthusiast

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    that's playing god

    you'de kill us all...

    no really you would.

    humans liek to eat and live in comfort. TO do this, they take form their surroundings. If the human population quadrupled all of a sudden we'de be screwed.

    but fatter cows, is a diferent story.
     
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    But who's gonna stop someone from stealing it, cloning , say Osama Bin Laden like 5 billion times or making a huge army and starting wars? Cloning presidents? This would be a huge mistake...
     
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    Hate to say it, but Laden died in a hole in the Afgan mountains last year. It may not be proven, but he had lung disease and barely any resources for medicine.


    Cloning the President of Iraq would be bad.
     
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    cloning a person doesn't mean anything.

    1 it takes time for the clone to grow
    2 they'll just be genetically identical, they won't have exact memories...
     
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    So we take a diseasless cow. Clone. Clone Doesnt Have Disease. Eliminates # of cows w/ disease.
     
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    There would be no reason for cows to actually reproduce anymore, all artificial, so in 20 years we would be eating a clone of a clone of a clone, and when you make a copy of something it loses a little integrity, so eventually the meat would be unsuitable for consumption. That's my logic anyway, I'm no geneticist.
     
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    this is so wrong. cloning animals for the sole purpose of food. nobody finds anything wrong in this. i don't know about you guys but i think it's selfish. even if it ends world hunger, it's still selfish.
     
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    what's worse, killing 10 medium-sized cows or 8big cows?

    some animals are just more efficient in growing than others and if it meens my food is cheeper and more enviromentally friendly, I'm all for it.
     
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    why compare killing to killing? they're both wrong. neither one is more moral than the other. environmentally friendly? if this has been proven, i'd like to see where you got it from. and don't say there'll be less animals, so it'll be better for the environment. no, that doesn't work.
     
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    SO you'd rather die by starvation then kill a cloned cow to eat it?

    What the hell?

    This is something that could save millions––even billions––of people.
    If we were all enviromentalist goonies who don't eat meat when we were first evolving, we wouldn't be alive.


    This is an article from US NEWS, and is also included in Scientific- America, one of the most prominent science magazine ever published
     
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    Cloned meat is suppose to be more nutritious...
     

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