Except for your grubby arteries!
Meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as the natural version, the Food and Drug Administration declared, clearing the way for such products to enter the food supply without special labeling.
“Meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine and goats and their offspring are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals,” said Randall Lutter, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for policy…
Initially, only a small amount of steaks, pork and dairy products derived from clones will become available in grocery stores. But over the next three to five years — after ranchers have time to clone their most prized animals and those clones are able to breed — the products will become routine on store shelves, industry executives said…
The risk assessment noted that “cloning raises many ethical and economic concerns” that are important to the public but said the FDA’s task was to focus on the science.
I headlined this “again” because scientific study after study, governmental and private, reaches the same conclusion.
Several reactions from around the world:
1. Cloned meat is an abomination in the eyes of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius and Ruth’s Chris. Strong sentiments follow.
1a. Corollary: Does a cloned human have a soul?
2. If it’s cloned meat, can’t vegetarians eat it?
3. It’s new, so it MUST be bad.
4. New words will be needed to describe cloned flesh. Bluff (beef), Squeal (ham), Phony (horse), Parody (parrot), Quack (duck), Fakon (bacon), Tricken (chicken), Ditto (hippo), Cheap (sheep), Shamb (lamb), Funky (monkey), Wish (fish) and Fear (venison).
4a. The whole category of faux meats (Deceits) will be prepared by people not licensed to be butchers who will be known as “Blotchers.”
What ever happened to TWINKIES?
I miss them!
19,
You can’t clone Kobe beef. Its a process of raising cattle, not cloning. You can clone a cow that will have a genetic disposition to tasting good, but that’s no guarantee. You cannot clone taste.
What can and probably WILL be cloned are cows that are immune to certain diseases, leaner, glow in the dark and that kind of crap. Nothing that adds value to your plate but the massive producers.
This is genetic engineer food.The FDA speak for the corporation not for the safety of people health. The FDA say the Vioxx drug is safe and later thousand of people have been link to their death. I see the FDA as a legal drug dealer and big supporter of corporation.I am afraid that this clone animal eaten for food could create new disease for people that might be allergic to it.I guess we have to learn the hard way.Wait and see what will happen as people eat clone animal for a long period of time.
I read somewhere about genetic modified food like corn has been link to liver problem.Sorry lost the link to the story.Just look around in the search engine.
24,
GM Corn and the pancreas more like it… specifically diabetes.
WOW,
NOW you can have your BULL Spit a SECOND TIME AROUND, maybe a THIRD, FORTH AND FIFTH…
#23 – glow in the dark
That’s it! Now I am 100% in favor of cloning!
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Seriously, many good points are made and I agree with Named on the taste thing because, well, its true…
I’m not a wingbat from PETA, but I am not in favor of being cruel to animals. There is just no good reason for it.
As the dominant and SENTIENT species we have no natural imperative to care about these animals… but we should choose to act as stewards to their safety and comfort insomuch as is possible up to and during the butchering process.
We eat meat and no matter what some hygiene impaired vegan says, we need to. The least we can do is be grateful for the animals, the technology, and treat these animals with compassion (a lacking trait in many humans).
And #20 is right… There are issues. So this technology isn’t perfect yet. We need to do it better. But I think we all agree that eating the meat from a clone is safe.
27,
“eating the meat from a clone is safe.” I don’t know yet… I’m still a bit sore about the FDA and Bovine Growth Hormone. And possibly aspartame… But, I like sugar, in moderation of course, so I don’t need to sub it out…
#25 – GM Corn and the pancreas more like it… specifically diabetes.
I thought it was more about nearly everything many of us, and especially the poor, eat being composed of corn starch and carbs.
I’m a type II diabetic, and I got that way by eating as I had been taught (parents, school, social peers, that damn food pyramid). I’m told that there aren’t diabetic safe and not diabetic safe foods. I’m told its all about portion control and moderation. But all that is a lie. There are some foods that are very dangerous to me, and its always a processed food.
It hard to eat healthy when you spend so little time actually at home. Its hard to find healthy food on the road. And you get hungry enough, that’s doing more damage than the food and you just have to eat.
It’s taking me a long time to really learn how to take care of myself insofar as nutrition goes… and I have a lot to learn still.
Nowadays, with news like this and about recalled drugs, an FDA seal of approval is becoming more and more an FDA warning.
Every other place online, I’ve been reading that 60% of consumers don’t want it, supermarket chains don’t want it, and it’s going to be a very tough sell. People are clamoring more for natural and organic foods, not frankenfoods.
Yes, I know they’re out there. But if I know something is cloned, I won’t eat it. Personal preference.
#30 – Yes, I know they’re out there. But if I know something is cloned, I won’t eat it.
I’m not sure why any cloned meat would actually be on the market. It seems to me that in animal production, the idea is to clone the best heads of cattle to breed more calves from the same genetic line. Thus, its the offspring of clones, which are not clones, that should be in your deli case.
#1
Those are tomatoes.
I have been thinking lately about having myself cloned before I go on a trip to the Amazon. I’ll send my clone while I stay safely at home, and if my clone is eaten by cannibals, then I will taste better because I (my clone that is), will not taste like preservatives!
Oh, and by the way, the cloned animals themselves won’t be eaten, nor probably their offspring. It’s the mating of the offspring that will be eaten. The purpose of cloning is to preserve and promulgate a particular trait.
>> # 8 Peter Rodwell said, I’m all in favor of cloning – the world would be a far better place with 500 million copies of me.
Not me. I can hardly stand one of me.
I didn’t bother to read the article but I am curious — how do they know cloned meat safe?
I could care less about cloned beef. You want to get me to buy cloned food then clone Lobster and King crab and make it plentiful and cheap.
I see the millions of starving poor in Africa and Asia feasting on $1.00 king crab legs and lobster….now thats eating.
Why don’t they just cut out the middle man (er, animal) and genetically engineer bacteria to produce beef like tissue that tastes good? The same with pork, fish, and milk products. That way they no longer need to raise and feed an animal, for the end product. It’s like with Beer. We don’t have a beer animal to process. They just toss yeast into a vat of grain and water. And brew it until beer comes out. So why not brew meat and dairy? And eliminate all the waste in between. Oh, I know. They still haven’t cracked that pesky DNA code thing.
Well, shouldn’t they put like a ton of money into doing that research? Rather than into building near useless space stations? Those hotels in space aren’t going to aid in feeding the starving millions back on earth. Just in feeding the rich stockholders of Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop. If we spent as much effort to crack the DNA code, as we did the german enigma code, we’d probably have it solved by now. But since fortunes are often built on scarcity. I’m thinking that few want to upset the world’s old wealth, by bypassing their commodities with far cheaper produced synthetic substitutes.
Ok, they might not get the texture the same from raised beef (not for some time, anyway). But for the millions who only eat hamburger a couple times a week, I doubt they’ll be complaining that the brewed beef isn’t as chewy as raised beef (that’s then grounded up).
Given the choice, I don’t want to eat any genetically modified food or cloned meat. For me it is a choice. Even though I will eventually die, I really don’t want my body to be fed to wolves either.
I don’t have a technical reason, I just don’t want to.
“I Am Proud To Be An American Ginny Pig”
By Steven Montes
January17, 2008
This article is about the irresponsibility of our United States Government, and the USDA in allowing our families to be endangered while stifling every persons right to sue for medical damages that might occur from the consumption, and exposure to Cloned Meats. And as an American, I am chocking on the very words, “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. And we dare to accuse other people, and countries of having weapons of mass destruction. Look who is calling the kettle black.
We the public, have been taken advantage of, once again by our U.S. Government. Only because we have no value as a society. I am very mad., so once again I have to tell the whole World just what is going on. So I am going to tell you, like it is, while warning you against Cloned Meats.
Our United States Government made it possible for us as a society to allow the industry that clones meats to bring this potentially dangerous product into our food chain without being labeled. Politicians were paid large amounts of money to make sure cloned meats did not have to be labeled. The reason for not labeling the meats was, so if Americans get ill from these products no one would have any legal recourse from those families with children being harmed by these products.
As a result of this, we can all be proud to being unsuspecting, naive, American Ginny Pigs. Who is to say what other products have been introduced into our food supply, such as hormones, antibiotics in beef, and let us not forget our genetically engineered foods that are now threatening bee populations in the World.
The reason I am so alarmed is that in the 1950s, Russia was experimenting with Pryonic Cell Lethality. Let me back it up for you. A Pryonic Cell, is a damaged protein cell that attacks the brain like that found in diseases called Encephalitis, and also Mad Cow disease.
Russia was working with Pryonic Cell research that was to be introduced into beef, so that their enemy would die from the consumption of the meat that was designed to kill you within three months. Leaving it impossible for the host to know what killed them.
What is known is that a Pryonic Cell is what caused Mad Cow disease in the first place. What is also known is that butchers in Canada were using a Nibbler Machine to chew away the meat that is still left on the bone, but very hard, and time consuming to recover this meat by hand. So some one got the bright idea to just throw the meat and bones into this machine, and use it as a filler in feed for cows. Extensive Research would have found this type of feed would lead to Mad Cow disease.
It is not for certain how long it will take for Pryonic Cells, from Cloning animals for food to infect the population of the United States, I just know that Scientists involved in cloning process have not done enough research, or conducted long enough studies to find out how long it will take for a Pryonic Cell to infect humans. Or better yet what new Pandemic Diseases will result from eating Cloned meats.
Let us not forget that the cloning meats is not as profitable as fertilization of animals is now. So why clone meats. It is my personal view that the cloning of animals was only intended so the very rich would be able to will their vast fortunes to themselves. But it wouldn’t take long for our Government to impose a tax on this.
The Medical Society wants to clone organs, and body parts, but not after they have long term case studies that show how well their American Ginny Pigs are doing with Cloned meats.
They just needed a lot of test subjects, that wouldn’t cost them any money for long term testing, for the harmful effects of cloned meats on Americans, and now they have them.
Guess what, you will not even see a penny for them to risk your life, and that of your children. At least in other medical Studies they ask for volunteers, you call an 800 number and you get payed like in any other Trial Study. But its okay, because you will not know who to sue anyhow.
We have our U.S. Government to thank for this, and let us not forget, to thank the USDA for protecting us from this potential harm.
Oink, oink for now.
Ahhh, Monsanto Chemical/Pharmaceutical big money maker $$$$…..between the poisons(neurotoxins) like Roundup, Agent Orange…..and their drug treatments for the symptoms from the illnesses their poisons create (like asthma, cancer, to list a couple)…..GMO’s, hormones for milk production…..and now cloned meat that doesn’t need to be labeled as such because CORPORATE SCIENCE said their was no difference…. it seems to me there is an enormous conflict of interest……AGAINST the health and welfare of the American public. Perhaps we need to hear more from scientists without a vested interest… which by the way the government excludes….and investigate Monsanto’s close and personal relationship with the USDA, EPA, FDA. Now there’s a dark story…..