Cloned Cow in the food chain...

[Gritt23]

When Alan Patridge talked about sheds full of big chickens he wasn't far off.

Really? Wasn't far off?


You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. Do you deny that? No, I think his silence speaks volumes.

 

[clapham_gull]

Really? Wasn't far off?


You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. Do you deny that? No, I think his silence speaks volumes.

That's exactly what happens in America now.

They have cloned cattle for years as well in South America.

That's why their portions are bigger, the cattle are simply huge.

Some of their chickens can reach 4 foot.

 

[Gritt23]

That's exactly what happens in America now.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Humans can clone themselves naturally. They're called identical twins.

Wel, that not really true, identical twins are from one egg that splits into two and therfore has identical DNA ( Monozygotic twins), that is not cloning in anybodies book.

 

[Acker79]

Wel, that not really true, identical twins are from one egg that splits into two and therfore has identical DNA ( Monozygotic twins), that is not cloning in anybodies book.

It is taking a source (an embryo) and making a multiple of it resulting in two genetically identical embyryonic cells when there was originally one. It is one loose version of cloning.


The very first cloning experiments in the 1950s was a forced version of this. A scientist (using a strand of hair from his son's head, allegedly) separated cells of a (I think) salamander embryo. Up to (again, I think - it's been 11 years since I gave a presentation on this stuff) the 8 cell stage (the embryo becomes two cells, then 4, then 8, then 16 etc) the two resulting salamander are identical. After that you start to get abnormalities (one regular sized Salamander with a small leg, one small salander with a regular sized leg, etc).