what will happen to me if i eat cloned beef?

[Saila]

anyone?

[sophiesofa]

You will have a tummy with beef in it is my guess. Yum

[silverfox]

A double dose of mad cow disease?

[Saila]

joking aside

should we/i be worried?

should we abstain from beef for a few weeks?

we must be in some way harmed if it's headline news?

[silverfox]

In theory, if a healthy bull/cow is cloned there is nothing to worry about. All that's happened is the original beast has been copied. It's a bit like taking a cutting from a plant.

In practice though (and this may be something to do with cloning techniques), many cloned animals are disfigured and suffer deformities/abnormalities (not unlike dogs bred for Crufts). For this reason the RSPCA has objections (to animal welfare not the quality of meat/milk) and the EU has banned cloned meat (and other foodstuffs) for human consumption.

[Saila]

but they use the word 'contamination' and 'in the food chain' on bbc news... not sky/fox... surely they're saying that its somehow dangerous?

[RosieH]

Proper beef contaminated with improper beef is all.

There's a degree to which we don't know what the implications are, if any, for health.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Health wise I wouldn't worry a jot

What I would worry about is, similar to GM food generally, are we giving up the ability to grow our own food, independent of food cos. Contamination means you won't be able to grow, say, your own spuds should the company which owns the right to the relevant copyright so choose.

Simar withlibestocm

[EDKiwi]

Saila Wrote:

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> should we abstain from beef for a few weeks?

Considering it was back in 2009 that it happened I'd say it's long gone by now,

[Jah Lush]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Simar withlibestocm

Either that's Gaelic or you've been on the shandy again Sean.

[RosieH]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Health wise I wouldn't worry a jot

...

> Simar withlibestocm

Really Sean, really, really, really?

I wouldn't worry overly, but not a jot seems wanton, you drunken sot - what the hell is this simar withlibestocm?

[DulwichFox]

what will happen to me if i eat cloned beef?

Moo Knows what will happen. ;-)

[SeanMacGabhann]

Of course no one will believe me. But...

That line i had to type blind as the letters were not showing on screen. Tis true! I believe I meant "similar with livestock"

[Brendan]

Well I read the Daily Mail this morning over someone?s shoulder and I now have it on good authority that if you eat this European satanic beef you will die immediately and your children will be eaten by gypsies. Best course of action is to stay indoors and not to take any calls from foreigners.

[HonaloochieB]

It's just as Brendan says.

But it's not just gypsies. It's HOT gypsies.

I'm not saying we'll all be murdered in our beds, but I'm not saying we won't be either.

I refuse to be drawn on the matter.

[RosieH]

Homeopathic gypsies, tramps and thieves*, they're coming for your children. Whom they will clone before eating, always cloning the clones until all flavour has been lost, cloning cloning cloning until there's nought but one cell of the original, but that's when they're most delicious.

* Cher in a cagoule and birkenstocks

[RosieH]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> That line i had to type blind as the letters were

> not showing on screen. Tis true!

Actually, wait a minute, back up, back up. YOU SEE THAT IPHONE ARGUING MAN? (whom I'm terribly sorry but I have forgotten who it was, because I don't really care all that very much, but just enough to be annoying in victory), but do you see that? The letters weren't showing on the screen. They weren't showing. On the screen.

Ergo jury rules for the blackberry (and me!)

[DJKillaQueen]

Did you say hermaphrodite gypsies Rosie?

Get me some cloned cow now......!

:-S

[RosieH]

Don't forget the tramps and the thieves - I heard it from the people in the town.

I wish I could clone the meatwagon's burgers...

[ruffers]

You'll appear in the Daily Mail and possibly a hard hitting investigation presented by Trevor McDonald.

[HonaloochieB]

Dear oh dear, 21 posts in and no one's made humourous mention of corned beef yet.

Must try harder.

[daizie]

I did consider this HonaloochieB , yet thought it would appear far too corny, honest .

[Tarot]

Money is the root of all evil, and that is why we are now having cloned meat sneaked into the food chain. The lesson of mad cow decease. forgotten. We are also eating geneticlly modified, maize,corncobs.cheese,etc etc.

[Saila]

Tarot Wrote:

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> Money is the root of all evil, and that is why we

> are now having cloned meat sneaked into the food

> chain. The lesson of mad cow decease. forgotten.

> We are also eating geneticlly modified,

> maize,corncobs.cheese,etc etc.

and if we eat genetically modified stuff? what happens to us? what are the health implications?

[SteveT]

No one knows the long term implications, but we may surmise that the prognosis is baaaad really baaad...................

in fact I shudder to think what may happen in the long term, but it is probably worse.