From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 14:48:56 MST
--- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:
> > > Ah, but we know how difficult it is to produce clones. What is
> the
> > > success rate: 1 in 50? 1 in 100?
> >
> > The success rate is quite different with multicellular plants. For
> example,
> > one of the most robust plants in my country garden is a Fortune's
> Double
> > Yellow rose <http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/teas/fortunes.html >. Each
> of the
> > thousands of Fortune's Double Yellow now in existence is a clone
> descended
> > from a plant taken from China to England in 1845, at which time it
> was
> > thought to be already quite an old variety.
>
> I wonder if using the example of plants would be a good way to
> argue the benefits of cloning. Many, many, food crops are cloned.
> Every navel orange in the world is a clone of a single plant, for
> example. I'm sure the luddite faction would just trot out "but
> people aren't plants", but I think that's pretty easy to counter.
> I'm just not sure if the PR value of plant examples is positive
> or negative on balance, but I think it's probably positive.
On this score, I think my previously scorned proposal to launch a
product labeling campaign should take advantage of this. Labeling
'organic' food products which are the result of cloning as 'cloned
organisms' would bring the truth in advertising as well as the cloning
debate further along.
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