FDA poised to OK food from cloned animals

[BaylorBean]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Blueangel:

I will answer your bullisht assed question: The safety and efficacy of cloned meats.

When you discuss cloning animal, you are talking about either adding or removing genes. Or you are talking about removing nuclei that contain X odd megabases of bovine genome with # chromosomes. In all mammals, complete numbers of chromosomes is manditory to successful cause zygote formation (Molecular Embryology 101). Actually, they inject nuclei into either some oocytes they can grow or embryonic stem cells they have isolated from blastula staged embryos. The reasons are numerous. Mainly because it works.

Then they implant the embryos into the pseudo-pregnant females. Resultant calves or pups will occur and then be genotyped by PCR.

From there, once the animal is adult stage, they will breed it with it's wildtype counterparts and generate an F2 generation.

You can crank out premiums meats extremely quickly with biotech used. Namely, the pork that tastes sweeter, Kobe beef cuts, less tough beef cuts. Basic breeding takes long, one has to wait for the animals to be the right age and if they like each other. The breeding times are excessive and the pregnancies are long (~11 months for various bovine breeds). And let's not discuss horse breedings.

Chickens are injected directly to generate transgenics. Their process of embryogenesis is fundamentally different from mammalian species because they are from the Avian Kingdom.

The public health concerns of cloned meat, most meats are processed, cured, treated, and mainly cooked. Eating raw meat from fresh kill is unsafe and no government agency purports that. Even milk sold must be pasteurized and homogenize, although raw milk, which contains blood, urine and plenty of microorganisms (Lactobacillus sp. & E. coli (maybe)), I heard tastes delicious but raw milk's safety cannot be guarenteed for consumption--spelled drink at your own risk. A finding by Louis Pasteur in the 19th century.

Then there is this guy Fleming... Kinna discovered Penicillian. And Jacob and Manod--received the Nobel Prize on what exactly is the genetic material, which was DNA. Watson & Crick solved the structure of DNA.

I decided to tell you this because you would respond immaturely to me as others. You clearly are having a neuropsychiatric episode on GC and you may need a vitamin B complexes to supplement your diet. Cecil's Medical Textbook clearly states that these kinds of problems can be solved by consuming vitamin B complexes and rather quickly.

When I get a chance, I will post another "Grand Rounds".

My GC Physicians will be more than happy to assist me in posting MD Consult.

I heart my fellow molecular scientist!