Well, I don't go to church, which must be why I'm ok with eating cloned animals:
Among those who said they attend religious services only "a few times a year or less," 30 percent were comfortable with animal cloning, and 54 percent were not. Among those who attend weekly religious services, 17 percent were comfortable with cloning, and 70 percent were not. (Washington Post Article)All fooling aside, what's everyone's beef with cloned meat? Or with bioengineering in general? As far as I'm concerned, there is little difference between selectively breeding and cooking DNA in a lab. Just because we're not waiting for mother nature to take her own sweet time doesn't make it evil. Most everyone eats genetically modified food regularly:
...80 percent of the U.S. soybean crop and 38 percent of the corn crop are now biologically engineered. "Whether it's corn-on-the-cob, soy sauce, canola cooking oil or Fritos, we have been consuming bioengineered foods regularly since 1996, all with no ill effects... (Townhall.com Article)People need to eat, it's a nasty side effect of living. Unfortunately, we're having trouble feeding all of us. What if modified pigs or corn could enable us to make organizations like this obsolete? (BTW, If you have some extra cash this year, this is a good group to give your charitable monies to.) Bioengineered foods have the potential to do much good. I would also bet good money that any biofuel we dive into will come from modified stock. Not that bioengineering is pitfall free, but I think its time that we stop being so damn superstitious and start thinking about how we can change the world for the better.