Today food for thought and meat to chew! And two questions:
The FDA’s Center for food safety has given the go ahead to the commercialization of meat from cloned animals. In the States of course. What about Europe? According to an article published in the Daily Telegraph, the European Food Safety Authority declared that meat from cloned animals and their progeny was highly unlikely to be different from meat from conventionally bred animal.
Would you mind eating meat from cloned animals or, yuck, do you find the idea revolting and disgusting?
A few days later, British scientists who had been battling for a year to be allowed to create the first animal-human embryo were finally victorious and their experiments will be allowed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It consists in injecting human DNA into empty eggs from cows to produce hybrids 99.9% human in genetic terms.
The Times said that the public was broadly supportive. However opponents say this is no longer necessary since a breakthrough in reprogramming technique has made it possible to turn an adult tissue into “pluripotent stem cells, with embryo-like properties”.
What is your personal reaction to the possibility of making an animal-human embryo?
The FDA’s Center for food safety has given the go ahead to the commercialization of meat from cloned animals. In the States of course. What about Europe? According to an article published in the Daily Telegraph, the European Food Safety Authority declared that meat from cloned animals and their progeny was highly unlikely to be different from meat from conventionally bred animal.
Would you mind eating meat from cloned animals or, yuck, do you find the idea revolting and disgusting?
A few days later, British scientists who had been battling for a year to be allowed to create the first animal-human embryo were finally victorious and their experiments will be allowed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It consists in injecting human DNA into empty eggs from cows to produce hybrids 99.9% human in genetic terms.
The Times said that the public was broadly supportive. However opponents say this is no longer necessary since a breakthrough in reprogramming technique has made it possible to turn an adult tissue into “pluripotent stem cells, with embryo-like properties”.
What is your personal reaction to the possibility of making an animal-human embryo?
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