Organic and Cloned Synonomous

[Fawkes]

Scientists have found no difference in clones or their offspring, and they have detected no difference in the animals’ meat or milk. That could make it tough to keep offspring, and their progeny, out of production.

“You can’t distinguish these animals from other animals,” Glenn said. “It’s almost mind-boggling, when you start talking about the granddaughters of granddaughters of granddaughters.”

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Why is it that cloned animals would not be considered organic if they were not fed any growth hormones or any other forms of "medication"?

Edit: I realize I spelled the title wrong.

[Sean]

I can see the point, since GM crops are pretty much through all parts of the food chain now. My personal problem with GM foods is actually the hold that could be put over it, not whats in it. Say I make a supercrop that grows twices as large as any other strain. Fill the third world with it. Then I tell you it dies without my special fertilizer; which i happen to hold rights to. I know we're talking about animals now, but I'm sure some kind of food subsidy scam would be as easy and devastating to pull off.

[Janus]

Why is it that cloned animals would not be considered organic if they were not fed any growth hormones or any other forms of "medication"?
Cloning is actually a "natural" occurence. Theoretically, if you clone an organism, there should be no differences between it and something that was breed without such technology.

[Sentinel]

My personal problem with GM foods is actually the hold that could be put over it, not whats in it. Say I make a supercrop that grows twices as large as any other strain. Fill the third world with it. Then I tell you it dies without my special fertilizer; which i happen to hold rights to. I know we're talking about animals now, but I'm sure some kind of food subsidy scam would be as easy and devastating to pull off.

Well, the capitalists will always abuse new technology in ways that allow them to egoistically profit from it. Regardless of this, we must of course support the research while opposing capitalism.

As to the topic, genetically modified and unmodifies animals, crops etc can only have different values due to their origins in the minds of ecologically conservative reactionaries who believe that nature unaffected/unmodified by mankind is somehow more pure or 'sacred'. Sheer superstition and a bullshit way of thinking of course, as it is only the actual properties of the end product that actually matter, not how it was created or how 'natural' it is..

[Knight of Cydonia]

Originally posted by [email protected] 06, 2007 07:21 am
Theoretically, if you clone an organism, there should be no differences between it and something that was breed without such technology.
well, maybe there is...their brains.the clone one maybe a little stupid or should it's no clever then the real one.

[Janus]

the clone one maybe a little stupid or should it's no clever then the real one.
That would be an environmental effect rather than a genetic one. Theoretically, a clone should have the same potential as the "real" one.