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Cloning in The Food Industry

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Owen Fowler

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Advantages

  • Many professionals claim that cloning is actually a safer process than traditional breeding for livestock.
  • It could cut down on infection, venereal disease and injuries to the animals.
  • Animals could be modified to produce better nutritional value in other meats.

Cloning in The Food Industry

Disadvantages

  • Cloning is extremely expensive
  • Cloning is not an exact science, and is not always a definite thing
  • Also, cloning would stop the natural genetic diversity in animals and plants

What is Cloned Food?

Usually milk, meat, or any plants are able to be cloned through a genetic process that allows the food item to have the same set of DNA as the "parent"

Cloning in Nature

Although food cloning is mostly man made, many types of food can clone in nature. Like, for example, identical twins. Food like strawberries and other plants already produce in this way.

Cloned Meat

Labeling

Is Cloned Meat Safe?

The short answer to this question is yes. Cloned food was declared to be safe on January 15th, 2008 by the Food and Drug Administration or the FDA. However, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) also requested that manufacturers refrain from selling products from actual cloned animals to allow the market to catch up to the technology.

The FDA did not require labels as a part of it's ruling of cloned meat and milk for awhile. However, the states were not too happy about this, and had an opposition to not requiring food labels. Because of this, the states introduce 13 new bills in the state legislatures from New Jersey, California, Tennessee, and Kentucky. These bills call for labelings that would warn consumers about the cloned foods before they buy.

Fun Fact

The first cloned animal/ meat product was Dolly the Sheep. She was cloned in 1996, and died during January of 2003.

What's My Opinion

I think that cloning food should be allowed, but only with the proper labeling. As long as the consumer know what their eating, I think it's fine. But if no label is included somewhere in the packaging, I think that cloning food should not be allowed.

Works Cited

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  • "CLONED MEAT – BOTH SIDES OF THE DEBATE." . N.p., 29 Mar. 2012. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://www.chefs.edu/Student-Life/Culinary-Central/March-2012/Cloned-Meat-Both-Sides-Of-The-Debate>.
  • "FDA Approves Cloned Meat." <i>Washington Post</i>. The Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2008. Web. 22 May 2014. &lt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/01/15/DI2008011502270.html&gt;.
  • Fletcher, Damien. "What's the beef? All you need to know about cloned meat." mirror. N.p., 5 Aug. 2010. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/whats-the-beef-all-you-need-to-know-239870>.
  • Layton, Julia, and Cristen Conger. "How do I know if I\u0027m eating cloned meat?." HowStuffWorks. HowStuffWorks.com, 5 Jan. 2007. Web. 22 May 2014. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/cloned-meat.htm>.