Cloned food to hit the markets soon

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Despite a September survey that found that 64% of Americans are repulsed by the idea of eating food from cloned animals, the FDA announced this week that milk, eggs and meat from cloned animals will soon be allowed on the market.

Ignoring a number of disturbing studies suggesting potential human health hazards, Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine said "that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day." Consumer, food safety, and animal welfare groups have condemned the announcement, pointing out that animal cloning is inherently unpredictable and hazardous, and that the practice of cloning has led to a high number of cruel and painful deformities in the experimental animals' offspring.

Recognizing that requiring labels on cloned food would lead to a massive boycott by consumers, FDA bowed to industry lobbyists by stating that there likely will be no required labeling of food products containing ingredients from cloned animals. The FDA's controversial proposed regulations in the Federal Register will now be followed by a three month public comment period.

The OCA is calling on health and humane-minded consumers across the nation to stop this outrageous and hazardous regulation from coming into force as federal law. The FDA will be accepting comments until April 2007. Please consider making the message an/or subject line below unique before submitting to the FDA. Thanks!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Eliseus

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Assuming of course there are no underlying genetic defects being cloned....what happens when the animals that did not have underlying genetic defects are cloned out and all that remains are the clones that just repeat the defect?

Parts is Parts.

[commonsense]

If I knew the product was from a cloned source I wouldn't buy it. So the only way to sell it, is to with hold the information.

[Revelationist]

Hmmm... If I eat a cloned egg for breakfast every morning, I'll be eatting the same egg over and over, so therefore I should loose weight? I see no problem with that....

ARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!! We are all gonna die!!! THe apocalypse has come RUN !!!!

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by hammondb3klingon1

ARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!! We are all gonna die!!! THe apocalypse has come RUN !!!!

you are quite a weird one, mr.

[RevDWW]

Cloned Beef....It's what's for dinner!!!


Will cloned food taste any different? Will it have unhealthy effects on the eater?

[RevDWW]

Is it ture that China is cloning mutant pigs to have more by products to make a SPAM substitue with? Thus stealing the SPAM market from the US and taking over the world.

Could this be evidence?