Will You Eat Cloned Meat?

I would not eat cloned meat, or drink milk from any cloned animals. I think it should be be a law for all products of cloned animals be labeled as such. If and/or when this happens I will become a vegetarian.

Cloned meat has the same DNA as the animal it was cloned from. I don't have all the details, but I'd assume a cloned animal would be raised the same as its predecessor, so basically, we'd be eating the same cow (pig, chicken, etc) twice. I don't see a problem wtih cloned meat, if it's labeled so other people can choose for themselves, and especially if it lowers the cost of meat.

I would not eat cloned meat given the choice. My problem is that none of the meat packages disclose what they currently are adding directly to the meat or the food the animals are eating. For that reason I try to eat only vegitarian.

ID RATHER HEAT VEGTABLES THAT A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT. UGH!

Um, maybe we should focus on the real problems- like population control- that necessitate producing artificial meat in order to feed a legion of human beings that far exceeds the planet's resources to support them.

Oh great I can just see it now... More weird illnesses just what we need

I don't trust much of anything the FDA approves... heck they approve anything and everything, and trust the companies to provide evidence, versus doing their own independent studies and investigations. Look at everything they "approve" and then later recall after there are "too many" deaths.

Seriously,if I was given the choice to know I was able to order cloned meat versus unique meat-I'd go for the unique. Definitely. But I guess the cloned would taste the same, right? Ow. This hurts my head just thinking about it.

Yes...most deffenatly!!! We should have the info so we can make an informed choice when purchasing the meats!

You had to ask? The thought is revolting. If it was a choice between that and no meat, I'd just say, "I'll Pass," on the meat, thank you.

Uh, no. There have been reports of cloned sheep have to be euthanized because they develop terminal disease. So now the FDA wants us to inject this? Are they serious? I guess I will have to become a vegan!!!

Cloned Meat...No Way! Look at what all the hormones are doing to our children....we are cruising toward our own Holocaust if we dont make some serious changes...Cloned Animals, Genetically Modified Foods, who do we think we are? God? I mean look at how powerful we've let our FDA become, yeah, thats not going to continue to bite us in the butts!

I definitely want to know if the meat I'm buying is cloned!- So I won't buy it!! Like Jeanne Bean said, if they have not completely researched this, which should take several more years, I don't want to be the guinea pig! If the animals are dying at a more rapid pace, then who are we to think that it won't affect us? And, like Grace Brumskill said, how do we know we aren't already eating cloned meat? It really is frightening what little control we have as consumers today....

The mere fact that one of the original "cloned" animals was found to be dying, much more quickly than it's cellular donor..is frightening! An FDA approval is simply a stamp of "well it looks alright so far...but we have no history to go by yet" I'm not a fan of being used as a Guinea pig, in a test of knowledge and wits of Researchers and Scientists!! No, thank you!! I see becoming a Vegetarian in my future!!

I only want to eat grass fed or organic meat, fish (wild), poultry. I will stop going out to eat if I have to. I prefer to eat only organic veggies and fruit as well.

I think we should be told what we are eating. Most people are intelligent enough to know what is good for their bodies.

I'm with Midori although the idea of a giant cows rump that continually grows steaks to be sheared off is a little gross. Still, probably not as gross as what actually happens in the meat production / processing business today.

How do we know that we are not already eating cloned meat? Why has this subject become all the rage. Do you think they (?), will tell us, if they are doing it or not? Look how long it took them to tell us that they were cloning sheep. I believe it is already in practice.

No I would not eat cloned meats, and yes I think they should label them. I don't think they need to be cloning things anyway. There is a reason God created the reproductive system.

Jeffrey Bruce....I rather eat cloned meat than the meat with injected hormones. Do you know that they feed cows hormones to produce more milk. Scary isn't it? I'd like to have myself cloned. Think of the work you could get done. "Get to work buddy". There's nothing wrong with cloned meat.

No I would not eat cloned meat and yes I do think it should be labeled so people can choose for themselves if they want to eat it or not.

I'm not so sure I wouldn't eat it. Really what you are eating is the progeny of cloned animals. Its too expensive to clone and then slaughter the clone. So, besides the parent being a 'twin' of another animal, Mother Nature is left undisturbed. On the other hand, about 20% of cloned animals die, often from unusual or mysterious causes. This doesn't bode so well. Keep in mind however, that there's a good chance we're all eating 'cloned' meat. The practice has been used already by top breeding animals. And once they reproduce, there's no stopping it.

I don't eat meat...I'm fully veg, heading toward vegan. I never saw it coming.
But if I did ever go back to eating meat (which will never happen with the way meat/poultry are handled in industry in this country), I certainly could never eat Dolly.

No freaking way! and thank you for bringing this to discussion. Anytime we humans mess with mother nature it backfires, and I believe this will too. I hope the FDA requires labels on cloned animal products, or if not that the non-cloned producers will have the good sense to promote that fact on their packaging much like the producers of hormone- and antibiotic-free chicken and milk. If animal products are going toward cloning, I'm thinking vegetarianism looks pretty good.

no way!!!

Hmm i'd have to do some more research before deciding!

Maybe, maybe not... yet, if it's done well, it might not be such a bad idea. Then again, I might be more inclined to go for petri dish steaks.... Jury's still out for me.

Hell, why not! It still beats eating processed, soy added, by product, syn-subsitituted, grain filled, fake meat creations. According to ranchers, cloned cattle will be only the best used to breed, creating natural offspring for butchering. The cloning process is too expensive for mass production, otherwise.

I like the idea of soy-meat. Cloned animals and their flesh are no more palatable than un-cloned animals and their flesh. But then I realize I am goofy. To answer your question, Kate - yes, I think they must label the products as meat from cloned animals!!

What I'm waiting for are cloned steaks and cuts of meat—without the whole animal, so we can eat meat but not have to kill anymore. These products are on their way.