"George" > wrote in message
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> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
>> While I DO have issues with Genetically altered foods, I have no problem
>> with genetically _copied_ foods. ;-)
>>
>> What is wrong with cloned animals other than the fact that they don't
>> generally live as long?
>
> Doesn't that tell you something? If they were *exact* clones wouldn't they
> live as long? We don't know that are true "copies". I wonder what else is
> screwed up in the process?

I just finished a book about the first CIA team to enter Afghanistan after
9/11, to bribe the appropriate tribal leaders so they'd pretend to like our
soldiers when they arrive. The CIA's followed by a small special ops team
whose primary function is to laser-designate Taliban targets for air
attacks. To impress one tribal leader, they arrange for a 1500 lb bomb to be
dropped on a Taliban hideout. Just one problem: The soldier gives the wrong
coordinates, and the bomb, which visually mimics a nuclear explosion, is
dropped on the soldiers belonging to the guy they're trying to impress.

Why am I saying this? Because it's just as likely that at some point, it'll
be discovered that meat was cloned from 3 cows which had mad cow disease.