FDA Gives Cloned Beef And Dairy The OK
By Luke Anderson
We don’t talk about food much here at OhGizmo, and for good reason. I’ve yet to find a piece of food that is considered a gadget (not counting those food-shaped USB drives, they aren’t actually food to begin with). However, I thought that I would bring up the topic somewhat briefly because there has been a recent development in the state of cloned meat.
The FDA has officially announced that cloned beef and dairy are completely safe for human consumption. There are plenty of activists out there that aren’t going to be pleased with this news, but I don’t really see any reason why we shouldn’t do this, so long as it has been deemed safe. I’d eat some cloned beef, what about you guys?
VIA [ Consumerist ]
Related Tags: Animals, Environmental, Food
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...I'm vegan. (Yes, I'm fine with vegetative reproduction ("plant cloning"), so long as there remains diversity in the available species.)
Soylent Green is safe, too. So what? The real problem is a political one. We're giving more and more control over what we eat into the hands of just a few bio-hightech megacorporations whose only true obligation is finding new ways to more efficiently redistribute YOUR money to THEIR shareholders.
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Cloned animals have very different hormone and cellular makeups than traditionally made animals.
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Please provide a reference to a reputable scientific source for this statement. Otherwise, stop scaremongering.
Big Corp (Big Agriculture, et al) are not the only ones with an agenda. Scaremongering naturalist/conservative/fear-of-change/progress-is-bad/I-don't-understand-so-I'm-against-it groups also have agendas...
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quote "Cloned animals have very different hormone and cellular makeups than traditionally made animals."
If hormones levels would be so different and cellular makeups too then the thing wouldn't be alive. As long as it looks like a cow no huge changes have been made. None the less what's the point of cloning simple cows? Way to expensive...
And long time studies... As long as hormones comaparible to human hormones are not overproduced no harm can be made, it comes out as poo eather way, transgenic or not, it'll still be brown and smelly.
And you guys have been injecting your cattle with way to much hormones allready so I don't see why there is a problem for the american market.
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Though I may sounds like a tree huggin hippie I would totally eat cloned beef. Where's the beef!? In my petri dish!
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Although lab-grown meat sounds gross :S
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Our meat is tainted already (as noted in the comment above with hormones). This isnt going to change much of anything.
As for the vegan. Do you drink bottled water? Hell, do you drink anything out of a plastic bottle? If so, you might wanna look into the wonderful residues that come off of those containers and are ingested by you. Trust me, cloned cattle is the least of your worries.
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