Food Not F*KD Up Enough? "FDA Is Set To Approve Milk, Meat From Clones"!

[leftchick]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601337.html

"Our evaluation is that the food from cloned animals is as safe as the food we eat every day," said Stephen F. Sundlof, the FDA's chief of veterinary medicine, who has overseen the long-stalled risk assessment.

Farmers and companies that have been growing cloned barnyard animals from single cells in anticipation of a lucrative market say cloning will bring consumers a level of consistency and quality impossible to attain with conventional breeding, making perfectly marbled beef and reliably lean and tasty pork the norm on grocery shelves.

But groups opposed to the new technology, including a coalition of powerful food companies concerned that the public will reject Dolly-the-Lamb chops and clonal cream in their coffee, have not given up.

On Thursday, advocacy groups filed a petition asking the FDA to regulate cloned farm animals one type at a time, much as it regulates new drugs, a change that would drastically slow marketing approval. Some are also questioning the ethics of a technology that, while more efficient than it used to be, still poses risks for pregnant animals and their newborns.

"The government talks about being science-based, and that's great, but I think there is another pillar here: the question of whether we really want to do this," said Carol Tucker Foreman, director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America.

[MADem]

1. Well, you can see the justifications from a mile away, and the slippery

slope as well.

--Well, I AM a vegetarian, because I only eat CLONED beef, not REAL beef!!!

--I'm growing a clone of myself because I need a new (heart/liver/kidney). We'll kill the clone and take the organs, but it isn't REALLY killing because it's just a clone!!

Oi, they used to write sci-fi books about this stuff. Now it's in the papers!

[karlrschneider]

5. How is it not 'real'? I don't get it.

...

[MADem]

11. I'm not gonna defend an absurd construct...I'm simply suggesting

that those arguments and justifications WILL be raised down the line.

[karlrschneider]

13. Sorry, I missed the implied sarcasm.

...

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Why does Stephen F. Sundlof hate America?

:shrug:

[karlrschneider]

3. I don't see any problem with it.

:eyes:

[LSparkle]

4. This is GROSS!

If I could afford it, I'd only shop at organic stores but I CAN'T ANYMORE so now I have to worry about eating CLONED FOOD? These ghouls are bound and determined to take away EVERY LAST JOY for those of us on the short end of the stick ...

[ContraBass Black]

9. And what makes the meat different from that with two parents?

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Um... What's Wrong With Our Food?

In 1900, life expectancy at birth was 45 years.

In 2000, it was 75 years, and increasing by 4 months each year.

Please help me to see what's so f*kd up with our food. Seems like something is going well...

[karlrschneider]

7. Some people don't understand basic chemistry. They will support

stem cell research but go ballistic when science diddles around with non-human animals. Go figure.
:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. If it was OK from the original animal...

why wouldn't it be OK from the clone?

[ContraBass Black]

10. Because it might execute Order 66.

[StClone]

12. Pus in Milk YES I SAID PUS! Due to BGH

Now Cloned Pus bags. BARF!


Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) induces cattle to produce more milk and in the process stresses the cow making them more vulnerable to udder infection: Mastisis. Bactria and Somatic cells (Macrophages ~ pus) increases. Organic milk hasn't seen such increased problems.

[RB TexLa]

14. Why would the FDA make any kind of distinction?

What reason could there be for anyone to make a distinction?