Cloned cow milk on sale in UK high streets...

[dandarez]

First reported in the Herald Tribune, now headlining in the PHs most hated paper the Daily Mail. However, if this is going on, just shows the state of Britain today. Profit before everything else.

Apparently the farmer wants to remain anonymous. Some hope! As this must be an illegal practise I hope he soon finds himself facing a huge fine and the loss of his 'valuable' cow.

[ATG]

What's the problem with milk from a cloned cow?

[TheEnd]

And also why do you need to clone a cow? It's not like there's a shortage of them.

[xr287]

Do you think milk from cloned cows is any different to milk from non cloned cows? Maybe they cloned a brilliant dairy cow so all the milk is even more delicious and nutritious than usual. What's the problem?

[dandarez]

What's the problem? Doh!

The same as counterfeiting bank notes... it's illegal!

[5unny]

From the mail:



To be honest, given the amount of other chemicals/hormones etc they pump into dairy cows, I think cloning is the least of our worries.

[joewilliams]

dandarez said:

What's the problem? Doh!

The same as counterfeiting bank notes... it's illegal!

How the bking hell is cloning a cow the same thing as counterfeiting a bank note?

[5unny]

joewilliams said:

dandarez said:

What's the problem? Doh!

The same as counterfeiting bank notes... it's illegal!

How the bking hell is cloning a cow the same thing as counterfeiting a bank note?

Bad example to use by the OP but very simply what they are doing is illegal. You cannot sell meat and products from clones and their offspring without going through the appropriate process which includes making an application to do so from the FSA and then it has to be labelled correctly.

Would not bother me drinking such milk but they are acting unlawfully and thus I don't think this is a complete non-story.

Edited by 5unny on Monday 2nd August 00:44

Edited by 5unny on Monday 2nd August 00:45

[fluffnik]

A cloned cow is a cow.

The milk of a cloned cow is milk.

It is that simple.

[Willie Dee]

fluffnik said:

A cloned cow is a cow.

The milk of a cloned cow is milk.

It is that simple.

Until we find out milk from a cloned cow causes cancer 20 years down the line.

[fluffnik]

Willie Dee said:

fluffnik said:

A cloned cow is a cow.

The milk of a cloned cow is milk.

It is that simple.

Until we find out milk from a cloned cow causes cancer 20 years down the line.

Which we won't since it is chemically identical.

[mybrainhurts]

fluffnik said:

A cloned cow is a cow.

The milk of a cloned cow is milk.

It is that simple.

They might be talking about Bitty...

[mybrainhurts]

dandarez said:

the PHs most hated paper the Daily Mail.

Oh, god, not again...

Don't get so hysterical, dear...

[Hedders]

xr287 said:

Maybe they cloned a brilliant dairy cow so all the milk is even more delicious and nutritious than usual. What's the problem?

It is more likely that they cloned a cow that can pump out high volume rather than high quality but i agree, What is the problem?

[Funkateer]

Yet nobody bats an eyelid about eating fruit of a cloned tree. A practice also known as 'taking cuttings'.

[RobDickinson]

Issues I see here are that it must be almost (or more than) prohibitivly expensive to grow cloned cows than let them breed naturaly (which they need to do anyhow to produce milk...).

AFIK cloned farm animals are still more at risk from defects and disease right?

And what happens when all your herds are effectivly the same cow, cant be too good for the gene pool realy?

Cloned farm animals are probably good fopr producing gene enhanced products not normal run of the mill milk.

[davido140]

Willie Dee said:

fluffnik said:

A cloned cow is a cow.

The milk of a cloned cow is milk.

It is that simple.

Until we find out milk from a cloned cow causes cancer 20 years down the line.

The Mail have probably already run a "Milk Causes Cancer" story.

[stemll]

I read the title and thought "What, how do you clone milk"?

[Frankeh]

Surely a clone is the best way to create meat.

Which cow tastes the best?
That one?
Alright, clone it.

I don't see the big deal just like I didn't see the big deal about GM foods.

[bobt]

Nail head. Of course they could clone to our advantage, and have lovely Jersey gold top milk with thick cream. Oh but then we will all die of heart disease. Well we are gonna die of smething, so make it something you enjoy. I am old enough to make my own choices. Remember that mad cow disease nonesense. 15 years down the line, how many peope actually died of CJD?