Question for vegans and vegetarians
 

Since the cloning of cows, sheep, etc is soon to be upon us, does this mean that you can start eating beef and wearing leather as long as they are from the cloned version?

No. A cloned animal is still a living animal.

However, when meat can be grown directly from cells without creating the animal - well, that a whole different story.

no its not. idiot.

Like, if I can grow a rib-eye, you could eat that?

why? those cells are alive too...

Plant cells are alive too.
We eat cloned plants all the time.
Most of our food is engineered as it is, animal or plant.

Yea.. a cell is alive.. it needs to be to duplicate.. and it needs Micro-Organisms and stuff like that.. technically.. that is a living creature. :2 cents:

I'm totally getting meat out of my life as of late.

Veg just digests better for me personally.

some people dont think b4 they post, it is a given in this place! he digs his girls allright, from thier graves!

Oh c'mon. There's a clear difference when the living animal has to be slaughtered to be eaten vs. eating something that doesn't need to be killed.

No one can seriously argue that cells or plants are living in the same way that a complex animal organism is living.

mmmmmmmmmmmm steak

I mostly eat vegetarian, because

- I don't like the taste of meat
- The choice in supermarkets is usually limited to meat from the bio-industry as opposed to meat from animals that have lived a relatively normal life
- Logically speaking, there's a huge loss of energy in every step in the food chain, which means eating meat leaves a far larger ecological footstep than eating plants does.

I'm not into veggies and I like meat a lot that's why I'm anemic.. but I don't care, a meat is a meat, whether cloned or not, I'll eat it:)

to match you nick?

I like meat; unfortunately my teeth are so fucked up it's hard to me to eat it unless it's super tenderized. I am usually forced to eat chicken as a result.. =| As for the vegetarian thing I think they are opposed to it because it's a living creature (rather than down to the 'living cell' argument). I assume once we're able to mass produce cultured meat (we're already able to grow 'slabs' of meat, just not economically) they won't be able to say anything bad about it then.