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Originally posted by UnseenWorld
There are definitely some missing premises here. Is there any evidence a cloned cow is any different from the cow it was cloned from? If there is, then someone didn't do a good job of cloning, right?
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Actually, cloned animals do have a high chance of having defective genes- we're nowhere near making perfect copies.
Defective doesn't mean they're inedible. That's coming from a vegetarian. I don't think it's terribly nice, or wise, to produce animals that could never survive naturally, in the hope that they will be ideal producers. At some point, it's just silly. People want steak, fine. People eating "supermeat" 3 times a day, somethin ain't right.
GM crops are a different issue. Introducing new ubercompetitve organisms into an established ecology is dicey at best. Anybody who's seen simple foreign transplanting- e.g. what kudzu vines have done in the southern u.s., the australian toad plague, what the introduction of boars has done to the diversity of hawaiian bird species, can see that these introductions may be incautious and may have unforseen environmental consequenses.