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richard marchetti wrote:
> I think CNN is reporting that cloned animals may soon be available at the
> butcher's counter. Now why raising hogs in the old fashioned way is less
> desirable than cloned pigs I guess I may never know...
Richard,
Have you ever headed down I-5 around Bakersfield, where they have a LOT of cattle?
On a really hot day, just after the cows have turned over a field?
Imagine that stench, 100 times stronger, and less natural smelling. Pig farms will
make you pass out.
Not to mention that the toxic waste coming from pig farms is killing a lot of
streams, or plugging them with algae blooms.
Cloned pig would PROBABLY pollute the world less than a pig farm.
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) I think you have mixed up the idea of cloning with something else. A cloned pig is not some vat of proscuitto flesh that doesn't create waste, rather it is a very close genetic replica of another animal. I think a cloned pig would still (...) (21 years ago, 7-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) That's actually far easier said than done. And increasingly more problematic in the U.S. than some other countries apparently (esp. Europe, I admit I have no idea about the food standards in Canada). Random thoughts: I just want to know that (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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