Cloneburgers, anyone? Farmer can’t wait

AP ^ | 19 DEC 06 | Libby Quaid

[roaddog727]

Cloneburgers, anyone? Farmer can’t wait Facing eviction, dairyman considers breaking ban on cloned meat

Updated: 7:21 p.m. ET Dec 19, 2006

WILLIAMSPORT, Md. - For nearly four years, dairy farmer Greg Wiles has poured milk from his cloned cows down the drain in compliance with a voluntary ban on food from cloned livestock.

Now in financial straits, Wiles says he may be forced to sell his cloned cows for hamburger.

The Food and Drug Administration says that’s probably safe, but pressure from the food industry has kept the agency from actually approving it. Milk and meat marketers worry that consumers won’t accept food from cloned animals.

[roaddog727]

Personally, A cow is a cow. I'll eat cloned beef.

MMmmmmmmmmm Cloneburgers.........

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

As always, have at it.

[Red Badger]

What a waste! People are starving in India.....no, China,....no, Ethiopia.....no, Somalia....... well, somehwere people are starving!.........

[Toddsterpatriot]

....... well, somehwere people are starving!.........

Ted Kennedy says they're starving here.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Milk and meat marketers worry that consumers morons won’t accept food from cloned animals.

[roaddog727]

Yep.

Folks are starving somewhere. Sned the cloneburgers there.

[struwwelpeter]

First BST, and now cloned beef. There must be a severe milk and meat shortage if we have to resort to this!

[posterchild]

Does the milk from all identical twin cows get banned?

[longtermmemmory]

I wonder if you can grow just the muscle tissue without the rest of the cow.

[roaddog727]

No clue.

[snarks_when_bored]

Beef, cloned beef, soylent green...meat is meat.

[Killborn]

Mm, mm, GOOD!

Whoa! A new arm...

[roaddog727]

"Beef, cloned beef, soylent green...meat is meat."

If it tastes good, I'll eat it. Who knows, maybe they'll sell it at discount prices and then I can get cloned Ribeye for cheap. :-)

[CharlesWayneCT]

I'm confused. He has these cloned cows. He doesn't sell their milk, and apparently he wasn't planning to sell them for food.

What is he DOING with these cows? Are they his pets? Is he sleeping with them, or renting them out for parties?

I don't get it -- what is the possible value to a business to hold assets that have no value and generate no revenue? Why didn't he sell these off years ago?

Was he hoping that someone would change the rules for him?

[6SJ7]

I wonder if you can grow just the muscle tissue without the rest of the cow.

Scientists are busy working on development of cultured meat. Wow!

[elcid1970]

Does this mean I can have my burger and eat it, too? I mean, it'll just keep cloning, right?

;^)

[Former Proud Canadian]

"...one of the clones, Cyagra, has had health problems and should be studied. Cyagra has never grown to full size, aborted her first calf and had another that died a month after it was born."

This is the problem with cloning. The copies are not perfect.

[longtermmemmory]

not perfect but is it edible?


Even Dahli had to be put to sleep because of her problems.

[longtermmemmory]

not perfect but is it edible?


Even Dahli had to be put to sleep because of her problems.

[org.whodat]

I wonder if you can grow just the muscle tissue without the rest of the cow.

For some strange reason that statement made me think of Hillary? Guess I've lost it!

[org.whodat]

This is the problem with cloning.

And there isn't the same problem's in other mammals, cloned are not cloned? Someone one even told me there were midget people?? In short mother nature makes mistakes all the time.