Clone technology lets the beef be revived

Clone technology lets the beef be revived
Ding Jia

The beef has been table delicacies on dining tables of people all the time. But now, the beef may go down the dining table again, walk to the farm. The American scientist extracts cells from the beef that is butchered recently, plan to be used for cloning and studying. And Englishmen in the opposite shore of the Atlantic are reluctant to show weakness, bypass the enormous ethics dispute that may cause, add to the beef " Revive the plan " Research team in.

Reason arises

At the end of last year, several scientists of Holland drew the muscle cell of the animal from the broth, the birth that it is the textured vegetable protein has established the foundation. Under the stimulus of a kind of electric current, these muscle cells begin to be duplicated, grow into the muscular tissue finally, the sticky intensity is similar to raw egg.

But let the scientist really move the incident of this thought, it is a food industry chain that three offsprings who cloned the ox have added Britain finally, begin to flow into the market of food. These three oxen are in what U.S.A. was born in " The super calf " Offspring,recently they last the ones formal authentication,claim to clone there are safe on the meat and milks of ox official side.

In fact at being at this, walk Americans for a long time in in front of being British. They have begun to clone these domestic animals for a long time, in order to meet the demand that the domestic agricultural byproducts increase day by day. They have also carried on a series of quality testing, including output, animal's life-span and meat product quality,etc., these procedures carry on after the animal is butchered.

" revive the plan " The famous animal clones what the company JRSimplot initiates, BradyHicks of JRSimplot company U.S.A. Idaho Branch says: "Now to let at time to clone the dining table that animals went on people. "

"We have attempted to obtain the gene from some animals with outstanding property, but if they have died, we are at one's wit's end. But there is clone technology now, we can let these animals be revived again. " Hicks says.

In U.S.A., cloning the beef has already begun to flow into the market on a small scale. There will be about 1000 that clone oxen in every 1 billion oxen on average. The farmers are paying close attention to whether this method can bring the economical benefit now.

The expert predicts, within 10 years, the textured vegetable protein will grow the frequent visitor on the fresh department shelve as the supermarket.

Dispute

Though it is all safe that American Food and Drug Administration claims to clone the beef and milk, but a lot of large supermarkets still refuse to introduce and clone animal's products.

But though suffer the cold reception of the supermarket, U.S.A. ViaGen clones MarkWalton of the company still to " revives the plan " Put up both hands to agree to. He says clone technology if can be applied to agricultural sideline production, will bring good news to world finally. "If I am a European farmer, see the competitors of U.S.A., China and South America are all employing clone technology, if I am not swayed again, will lose a lot of business " .

Evidence does not indicate the food will cause the injury to the human body at present, but the security bureau of food of European Union says, the security of cloning the food still needs to carry on long-term observation.

A lot of experts in Britain think, this plan will bring the question of a lot of ethics and animal's welfare. It may cause the injury to the animal to clone on a large scale, have evidence that indicates that it causes animal miscarrying, life-span shortening, organ deformity, loose disease, having difficult labour,etc. to clone now.

Many scientists think, compared with traditional livestock's products, artificial beefsteak and sausage made out in the laboratory at the same time, more friendly to the environment.

Scientific circles to this opinions vary, but most big problem now, after clone the food, merchandize, common people will acknowledge on earth.
Clone technology lets the beef be revived