what will happen to me if i eat cloned beef?

[PeckhamRose]

The point about companies owning rights to certain types of foods they have invented is an interesting one, specially if the old types of free range foods as it were die out. That could take - oh I dunno - a century? But those companies do exist and they're ready. I saw it in the X-Files I think so must be true.

[HonaloochieB]

You silly moo!

[HonaloochieB]

Oops, mistook this for the catchphrase thread.

[matthew123]

Lean meat that melts on the tongue...mmmmm

..then 10 years later you're offspring will probably be born with a pair of hoofs

[Brendan]

Well if this is what we need to produce some decent super heroes I?m all for it. Decades of buggering about with nooclear bombs and toxic waste haven?t, despite what ream upon ream of comic book suggests.

Minotaur Man may be just what the world needs.

If we?re lucky we may even get some of those women in spandex with the improbable breasts.

[TheArtfulDogger]

I guess it depends on the stock it was cloned from

If a normal cow then more then likely nothing, you won't notice any difference in taste or quality (you may even think you have eaten it before in some weird deja-vu feeling)

however if it is from GM stock, then god help you !!!

My suggestion is just sit back and enjoy the deja-vu feeling

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[Saila]

So.... Why headline news? If no harm at all?

[TheArtfulDogger]

slow (or sometimes called silly) news season ?

[Saila]

I see. The usual 'you can't beat a bit of science-bashing' to keep the punters happy

[SeanMacGabhann]

Jays - if we are going to ask that for EVERY headline! ;-)

I stand by by statement re: health risks. I doubt there are any of any significance

But introducing something to the food chain you can't control IS inherently worrying - not just from a health perspective (the Mail's angle) but about who controls it

Good food (as opposed to fuel) is also at risk - having every steak for the rest of my life EXACTLY the same or even homgienised partly makes me all kinds of bothered

[Saila]

what's being introduced into the food chain exactly?

i thought the cows were cloned?