Does this scare any one else as much as it scares me??

[callistra]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4435159.stm

In summary, they think cloned foods might possibly be a marketable item one day. It scares me! I happen to believe that roaming around and eating everything is sight is what humans are supposed to do. And we absorb bits and peices from our food. And genetics is a structure designed to ensure best possible traits get carried on through children. And if (in a SF type of future) what happens if *all* our meat for thousands of years comes from a single genetic source???

I swear, it's scary! I must have read too many horror SF as a kid. I always did love the apocalypse stuff. :-)

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[llbatt.livejournal.com]

We read a story in Brutarian recently that involved white-collar cannibals eating cloned meat from humans, which they sold to each other in disguised spam cans. And the highest-priced item on the calendar: cloned meat from the scrapings of the Shroud of Turin...

'Course, the whole thing false down when you understand the Shroud is just a burnt image made using a camera obscura, but while you're suspending your disbelief, it's quite funky :)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I still believe in the shroud!!

It hasn't been debunked yet! I dare you to provide solid (read googled) evicence that it has been thoroughly debunked, and not just proved that the previous tests were flawed because they did them on materiel that was a "repair" and not an original part of the shroud..

Er...

*grin*

But back on track... icky. On so many levels. And ickier to think of spam (pink, wobbling, squishy, scary meat) as being soylent green...
:-)