Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod

[Purveyor]

Source: Natural News

(NaturalNews) The major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they have not bothered to try and keep meat from the offspring of clones out of the U.S. food supply, in spite of a request by the FDA several years ago.

"This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is not already in the food chain," said Donald Coover, who owns a specialty cattle semen business. "Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking about, or they're not being honest."

Coover admitted that for several years, he has been openly selling semen from cloned bulls. He is sure, he added, that others are doing the same.

The revelation came as the FDA approved cloned beef as safe for human consumption but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asked farmers to keep it out of the food supply anyway.

The USDA's primary concern is that if cloned beef enters the U.S. food supply, other countries might refuse to purchase beef from the United States. Similar problems have emerged in the past with genetically modified U.S. crops being rejected, particularly in Europe but also in parts of Africa, Asia and the Americas. Insiders from agencies such as the USDA and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative noted that a product that no other country wants to buy might do the United States more harm than good.

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[Tempest]

1. There goes the South Korean market

And most likely the Japanese market as well.

[Parche]

2. I Know, I Ate The Same Looking T-Bone Twice

:woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:

[KansDem]

20. Hey, I just bought this one at a local supermarket...

You don't suppose...???

Naaahhhh...you said you already ate it's twin!

[Amy6627]

3. We don't need FDA approval!!! Let the market decide. If 1 million

people die, get cancer, have babies born with 3 heads, then people won't buy it anymore and they will go out of business. What are you some kind of communist!:sarcasm:

[Overseas]

4. If other countries won't take the cloned beef, they are just not fair free traders !

Maybe we can push new WTO "free trade" regulations to force the other countries to accept our cloned, genetically modified and irradiated foods.

<:sarcasm:>

[WriteDown]

5. How would you test for "cloneness?"

:shrug:

[Indenturedebtor]

10. Genetic testing of known clone stocks

This is just wonderful. An example should be made of these people... Food is pretty much the only thing that we export nowadays and these money hungry assholes go and flout regulation and sully the name of all of our beef. Not that our ag industry isn't a vile beast, but we don't need any help destroying our reputation.

Dissolve their company says I!

[WriteDown]

11. Would that really solve it though?

What if they bred the cloned animals with non-cloned animals? Also, even paternity tests aren't 100%. DNA testing of every piece of beef would also be staggering in its cost and implementation. I am just trying to fathom how you regulate this.

[Indenturedebtor]

14. Imperfectly I suppose :( As with E-Coli tests you'd have to do it by random sample

I still think that an example should be made. I wish our "regulatory agencies" like the USDA, FDA, EPA, and Congress would grow some balls already!

[flashl]

6. Been here before.

:popcorn:

[SpiralHawk]

7. "Don't want no steenkin mutant cloneburgers." - American people

"But, but, but there are massive profits to be made. And what you don't know (smirk) may hurt you but it won't hurt us. Smirk."

- Republicon crony mutant corporations

[Codeine]

8. How is it "mutant?"

A clone is, basically, an identical twin. There's nothing sinister about consuming the torn flesh and musculature of a cloned animal versus a non-cloned animal.

[crimanimalz]

9. easy.. quit eating meat

don't really need it anyways..

[WriteDown]

12. So says you...

You could make the same argument about vegetables. I enjoyed my burgers last night.

[CountAllVotes]

15. hope is wasn't a cloned

mad-cow burger! :evilgrin:

[roody]

16. Or eat only organic or home grown meat.

[NashVegas]

13. Yet Another Reason To Refuse RFID

RFID is the compromise to get around food safety testing before putting this stuff on the market.

ie, the animals get tagged so that problems can be traced back to DNA origin and in return, biotech livestock producers don't get their asses sued off when something goes horribly wrong.

FUCK THAT.

[mike_c]

17. more FUD about cloning and biotechnology....

Meat is meat, no matter how the zygote was produced.

[Codeine]

21. Thank you.

Paranoia + ignorance of biology do not make for a rational combination.

[FarCenter]

18. A lot of fruit is cloned

Guess you all will have to give up wine. Almost all wine grapes are from cloned plants.

[Javaman]

19. Huh, this may explain why I feel twice as full after a burger...nt

[lovuian]

22. all these agencies are attacking their own people

I'm outraged that FDA has UNapproved BEEF out there eaten OMG

[Kablooie]

23. Corned beef has been in the food supply for years.