Cloned meat has been a thing since 2008
Nov. 16th, 2025 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fayanoraIn the US, since 2008, meat from cloned cows does not have to be disclosed. If you live in the US, you might've eaten meat from a cloned cow and not even known it.
This is not the kind of cloned meat the old scifi novels promised me. I was promised sheets of cloned meat grown in a laboratory like something out of a mad scientist's lair, meat that was real but which did not have a nervous system and therefore could not suffer. This though? This is just "cow with extra steps."
This is not the kind of cloned meat the old scifi novels promised me. I was promised sheets of cloned meat grown in a laboratory like something out of a mad scientist's lair, meat that was real but which did not have a nervous system and therefore could not suffer. This though? This is just "cow with extra steps."
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Date: 2025-11-16 08:32 pm (UTC)But cloning cows is fairly easy. They collect sperm from prized bulls (and stallions, you d0one want to know how much it sells for) anyway.
Harvesting eggs isn't that hard. Especial if you can wait until you are ready to slaughter the cow.
Putting the two together *guarantees* that the resulting cow/bull is going to be the same as the prize quality parents. So it actually makes some economic sense.
Of course, then you get the same problem we have with many crops these days. Lack of genetic diversity means that if the right bug comes along, you lose everything. But that's a problem to be addressed later (ie never)
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