Cloned or Conventional, Meat is Unsafe

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by Heather Moore / February 12th, 2008

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Face it: Meat — cloned or not — is about as “safe” as a troubled celebrity behind the wheel of a car. It’s high in cholesterol, saturated fat and concentrated protein — all of which contribute to heart disease. Research shows that meat-eaters are 50 percent more likely to develop heart disease than vegetarians are. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that 26 percent of meat-eaters studied suffered from high blood pressure — the No. 1 risk factor for strokes - compared to only 2 percent of vegetarians. The American Dietetic Association acknowledges that people who eat animal products are more likely to be overweight than people who do not.

In a 2007 joint report, the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund advised people to lose weight and reduce their consumption of red and processed meats to help prevent certain cancers, including colorectal and breast cancers. Scientists with the University of Minnesota, the Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions have cautioned that eating red and processed meats can also cause diabetes. Other meats aren’t any better: According to a 2006 Harvard study, people who frequently eat grilled skinless chicken have a 52 percent higher chance of developing bladder cancer than people who don’t.

Add to this the risk of illness from consuming meat and milk tainted with dangerous bacteria. Just last week, the Rochester Meat Co. in Minnesota recalled 188,000 pounds of ground beef potentially contaminated with E. coli. There’ve been at least eight other E. coli-related meat recalls since October. In September, the Topps Meat Co. in New Jersey recalled more than 21 million pounds of beef after 100 people became sick. Since June, three elderly men have died and one woman has miscarried after drinking listeria-contaminated milk from a Boston-area dairy plant.

Yet instead of at least encouraging people to be wary when eating animal products, the FDA is allowing meat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals to enter the food supply — and consumers are supposed to swallow this? Only in America. The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies says that it doesn’t see convincing arguments to justify the production of food from clones and their offspring.

Nothing can justify this.

Dissent Voice

Another voice in the clone meat debate.

[flvegan]

1. Part of the reason I never touch the stuff.

Nothing but poison...for the body, for the planet.

[DesertFlower]

2. i agree. nt

[MADem]

3. Well, that's a bit....hyperbolic. If you don't want to eat it, don't., but

steaks and lamb chops don't drive cars and the comparison at the outset is just idiotic, overdramatic, and shitty writing.

People who don't eat meat should be thrilled. All those meat eaters will drop like flies, and there will be more room on the Big Blue Marble for you and you alone....

:eyes:

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. But it tastes soooo gooood!

Poppin' on the grill with all that sweet smelling fat dripping off it...

Yum!

[Angiewnsb]

5. Actually, Heather, you're 100 percent wrong, but it's not your fault

Heather, when you indicate about meat, that it's "It’s high in cholesterol, saturated fat and concentrated protein — all of which contribute to heart disease", you are completely, 100 percent
wrong. But it's not your fault. You just believe what you've heard in mainstream media and even from the U.S. Government. Unfortunately, this belief you have - and spread here on DU and probably elsewhere - is not based on hard science or clinical studies - and just the opposite is true. If you want to learn something (lots, actually) and stop spreading disinformation, here's the 2007 book you need to take out of the library & read: "Good Calories, Bad Calories, CHALLENGING THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON DIET, WEIGHT CONTROL AND DISEASE." This is not a fad diet book. The author, Gary Taubes, is an award winning science journalist and he's done something that most medical reporters and doctors haven't, he has actually looked to the studies, clinical and otherwise to see what's based on fact and what's not. It WILL surprise you, as will the flimsy and contradictory evidence that this myth you're spreading actually rests on. It will also help you understand current medical news (like the recent Vytorin and Zetia shockers, for example, which wouldn't be shockers to anyone who has read this book), not to mention learn what really does and does not contribute to good health. Happy reading and learning to all!

Angie
www.WhatNewsShouldBe.org

[natrat]

6. it's incredibly nasty in the quantities americans consume-

the whole system is wrong on so many levels