"Protein with an attitude"
Scott Adams penned a pretty morbidly interesting blog about the FDA's saying that cloned meat is safe. He ponders if eating his own clone is acceptable and determines that it is -- since there is no way that clones have souls.
All I know is that cloned animals age at an accelerated rate, and eating meat that comes from an animal that is chemically imbalanced in that way can never be a magnificent idea.
Live the madness here.
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"The risk with this plan is that my clone is just like me, and tries to eat me first and assume my identity. But that’s a risk we’re both willing to take."
Pituring Scott Adams being chased by CloneScott as they try and take bites out of each others shoulders is oddly hilarious and profoundly disturbing.
J - you have a point about eating meat from a chemically imbalanced animals. Our meat supply now allows for animals injected with antibiotics and hormones to be consumed. What will cloned meat add to this cocktail?
I am so down with organic. I love natural foods, people, lifestyles. My inner hippy rages on...
I'm completely against cloning... but cloned animals don't have souls?
Discuss.
clones dont have souls? how about those that DO THE CLONING? Do they have souls???
What if a clone can clone someone? Do we have an entire population of soulless people to look forward to one day?
I think we need to contact Dreamworks and get Spielberg to make this into a film.
In the referenced blog posting, Scott said:
"...My clone won’t have a soul, obviously, since clones are an abomination and not a product of God’s approved method of procreation. You can’t expect The Almighty to hand out souls to creatures made in a laboratory. Only real people get souls, and that means there’s no ethical dilemma with eating your clone. It’s just protein with an attitude."
Scott has biting absurdist wit, and states that he is a vegetarian -- when I read his post, I took it as his being very tongue-in-cheek.
As for my hippy self -- I most identify with the belief that all living things have souls, a.k.a. part of the universal life force. So in my humble opinion, cloned beings are alive, therefore, have souls; though their corporeal, physical selves are not chemically identical to beings made the natural way.
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