cloned bi-products
 

This incredible new product from cloned animals brings to mind a million possibilities. The media has alerted us that meat and milk and eggs from cloned animals is an idea we need to digest. I am scared in multi dementions. What effect will there be? Cheap produce? Strange species of SPAM? WHAT??? Your input? (as a spouse, I know that this will not take 5 posts to involve how to cook what.......)

Hot DOGS ??
Chihuleshules with Hot souce ??
Whale Peni in penna ??
Spam in a can that opens it self for you " Don't worry about those sharp edges , OOPs I cut my self , ohhhh look I'm bleeding GRAVY !!!!! "
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I don't see it happening anytime soon.
It currently costs $3k-$4k to clone a single calf. A traditional cow/calf ranching operation can breed and sell a weaned calf (at a profit) to a feedlot for $200-$300 to be raised until butcher age.
Starting costs for a cloned calf at several thousand dollars is NOT the way to bring 'cheaper' food to the grocery stores. The only thing that would do is price more and more people into becoming vegetarians.
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Cloned food has been happening for a long time. Just ask anyone who's planted the eyes from a spud...

And we mustn't forget the avocadoes. They have been cloned for years.

Isn't that "normal" reproduction, as opposed to cloning?

You say po-TAH-to, I say po-TAY-to.

It is cloning. The "daughter" potato has identical DNA to the parent.

wouldn't that be true of any cutting which is rooted?

Now, a potato grown from seed (as opposed to a seed potato) would have the dna of both parents. Come to think of it, I've never heard of potato seeds. Do they make seeds? Usually the tops die back, I've never seen a seed pod...

Yep. I'm just pointing out that nature has used cloning as a method of procreation for a very long time.
Aside from all that, HH's point is the overriding factor -- why would you bother? It might be worthwhile to create such an offspring for a champion racehorse (although I believe the Jockey Club forbids this) but why do it for food, when the usual process is so much cheaper and easier? :confused:

Just to be clear, the term is by-products.

A cloned bi-product would be Anne Heche.

Isn't growing a spud eye more like having a child, not cloning? I imagine a more genetically produced item. If you were referring to something llke starter for bread, they would have killed yeast long ago.
Oh, and isn't SPAM "PRE-CLONE?, merely space-age like TANG?

And Rich, Yes, but My bi-product clone would be a mix of Rosie and Ellen...very happy

How is it like having a child? There is no sexual reproduction involved; the daughter entity has the same genetic material as the parent. :confused:

I heard on the radio, yesterday, they have bred a cow that lacks the specific protein that "Mad Cow" needs to survive and grow. They're are injecting this cow with the disease to make sure their theory is correct.
If it works out well, I can see them wanting to clone this cow... a lot.

I think I'll start on my screenplay, hmmmm.....resistant cow....inject...cow doesn't contract disease....sun comes out...children dance....happy, happy....inside the cow the injected disease, not finding the protein, morphs into a time bomb disease, infecting every part of the cow....even the blood the insects are drinking...... [intermission], Lets all go to the lobby, Lets all go to the lobby, Lets all go to the lobby, And get ourselves a treat. [/intermission]...... Everybody dies .... The End.

Pollyanna.

Yeah, and the LHC is going to make black holes and kill us all. Next!