Comments on: Fun With Cloning http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51 Fact from Fiction in Food Production Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:01:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Sara http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51#comment-588 Sara Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:13:45 +0000 http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51#comment-588 As a society (especially in the US), we have grown so separated from our food that we have become uncomfortable with many of the "facts of life". Fruits and vegetables have blemishes and are grown (usually) in dirt. Meat, eggs and milk come from live animals. Organisms eating other organisms is the natural order of things. Until we can create nutrition directly from the sun, harvesting it through plants and animals is necessary. Even I draw the line at vat-grown meat. Just as wine does, meat, vegetables and fruit all draw their unique flavor profiles from their life's experiences. I don't think we'll ever be able to replicate that in a petri dish. As a society (especially in the US), we have grown so separated from our food that we have become uncomfortable with many of the “facts of life”. Fruits and vegetables have blemishes and are grown (usually) in dirt. Meat, eggs and milk come from live animals.

Organisms eating other organisms is the natural order of things. Until we can create nutrition directly from the sun, harvesting it through plants and animals is necessary.

Even I draw the line at vat-grown meat. Just as wine does, meat, vegetables and fruit all draw their unique flavor profiles from their life’s experiences. I don’t think we’ll ever be able to replicate that in a petri dish.

]]> By: Dawn http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51#comment-584 Dawn Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:32:05 +0000 http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51#comment-584 This made me giggle! One of Brian's favorite longed-for advancements is what he refers lovingly to as "vat-grown meat". He adores the idea that he could eat perfect lamb without the guilt associated with it and that the efficiency of "growing" only the parts needed for food would be vastly more efficient that the inhumane factory farms of today while also doing away with the cruelty of them. Yeah, he's a bit extreme sometimes, but I get where he is coming from and honestly, many of our medicines, cleaners, processed foods, and personal care ingredients are essentially chemistry set copies of natural ones. The leap isn't so hard to make. =) This made me giggle! One of Brian’s favorite longed-for advancements is what he refers lovingly to as “vat-grown meat”. He adores the idea that he could eat perfect lamb without the guilt associated with it and that the efficiency of “growing” only the parts needed for food would be vastly more efficient that the inhumane factory farms of today while also doing away with the cruelty of them.

Yeah, he’s a bit extreme sometimes, but I get where he is coming from and honestly, many of our medicines, cleaners, processed foods, and personal care ingredients are essentially chemistry set copies of natural ones. The leap isn’t so hard to make. =)

]]> By: suzannabanana23 http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51#comment-570 suzannabanana23 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:08:28 +0000 http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/fun-with-cloning/archives/51#comment-570 Oh right. When you clone you get a BABY, not a full-grown animal leaping out of a test tube. Wouldn't it be funny if our children did have to raise us? Then again, they'll probably be changing our diapers when we're 93 can't remember the name of the current President of the United States, and still think we're in charge of them, so that's probably a lot worse than a new cute little baby! Oh right. When you clone you get a BABY, not a full-grown animal leaping out of a test tube.

Wouldn’t it be funny if our children did have to raise us? Then again, they’ll probably be changing our diapers when we’re 93 can’t remember the name of the current President of the United States, and still think we’re in charge of them, so that’s probably a lot worse than a new cute little baby!

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