Eat the clone.
This is rather off topic but worth mentioning because of the moral and ethical implications. October 30th, 2003 Reuters reported that they obtained documents from the American food and drug Administration(FDA). These documents supposedly report the findings of several studies done on cloned live stock. The findings of the report speak clearly that cloned live stock is safe for human consumption.
So what are the moral implications of eating cloned food? If you believe in any religion cloned products can’t be considered part of God, Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, or what every other name you call your specific higher power’s original creation. Although I do not hold an PhD in theology it seems that creating cloned live stock is a sort of scientific incest.
From a scientific stand point we can’t ignore that breeding any kind of mammal from the same family will eventfully produce mutations. So what happens when you make a clone of a clone of a clone of a clone? Animals aren’t digital they’re DNA won’t stay the same, as would a copy a copy of a copy of a copy of a compact disk. Eventually, after so many generations of clones; it’s probable that cloned mutations will be prevalent in the live stock population.
Mad Cow syndrome began by feeding living live stock dead live stock. For generations this was a normal practice until a new disease was born. How do we know similar diseases won’t be born out of cloning? What if we clone an animal that has influenza? Will that produce a strain of the virus that we won’t be able to find a cure for?
The bottoms line is clear, don’t mess with nature or we could all pay the price.
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