good time to go vegan

[notnotabouthim]

So, as you've probably heard. The FDA has announced that food (meat,dairy, etc) from cloned animals & their offspring is safe for human consumptionHow did they do this? By examining the nutritional quality of the food produced by these animals

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[ambilevous]

Most bananas are clones.

[notnotabouthim]

I think they all are.

However, after (how many?) years of people all over the world eating the same cloned banana, I think we can be statistically certain that it's a safe procedure.

much, MUCH less so with cloned animals.. which, after all, are significantly more complex entities.

[ambilevous]

I think that all of the "standard" bananas that we eat are all clones; but there are also wild bananas still kicking about in hard to reach places.

(I gather that there are some fruit trees (lemons, I think) which are mostly grafted on to other trees. Mmm. More acceptable frankenfood. (And then there are the absurd trees where multiple varieties are grafted onto a single root stock for the purposes of.. well.. one tree with multifruit!))

[notnotabouthim]

Actually, yeah, I read the other day about a guy who (for no particular reason) grafted THIRTY different fruits onto the same tree.

I'd mention something about "needing a hobby".. but I think he's already found one :)

[ambilevous]

Thirty fruit tree don't need no reason.

[fringekitty]

Sounds like he was trying to recreate some biblical tree of life.

[t_c_da]

Just so you know,my Dad had a tree in his backyard that had Nectarines and Peaches growing on it. He grafted the Nectarines onto a Peach tree as they were related fruits (and both are related to Almonds as well).

So it's not new...

[fringekitty]

Yep, grafting and genetic manipulation/breeding have been around for centuries. They do it with roses, too. Many of the fancy cultivars won't grow well on their own, they need to be grafted onto stronger trunks.

How did that tree do, BTW? It sounds yummy!

[t_c_da]

Not all that well, but I suspect that was because it wasn't a very good tree in the first place.

I suspect Dad did it just to prove to himself that it could be done as much as anything...

The lack of fruit from the tree wasn't all that noticeable as we had a yard full of fruit and almond trees with a few grapevines thrown in for good measure.

Despite being a mere two miles from the centre of Adelaide we had 11 Almond trees two Lemons, a Quince, an Orange, two or three Apricots, and a Loquat. Fresh fruit was not a problem in our household...