Last week the FDA approved beef, pork, and dairy from cloned animals. They say it is the same as eating meat from non cloned meat. So, my question is, why? Some say that cloning leaves the animals genetically altered. Hormones and antibiotics are already linked to an array of health risk, cancer comes to mind. What the HELL is wrong with people. I mean is there really a shortage of non cloned meat? The answer, it seems is no! Does this freak anyone else out?
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Such a strange, crowded world in which to be living! One of the news shows (20/20?) recently aired a segment about how the FDA can’t keep up and doesn’t have enough people to “man the agency”… so they’re going to throw cloned food at us? Ever had anyone say,”Here, eat this!”?
There’s just something ‘not right’ about cloned food!
I recently posted an article about a scientist in the UK who cloned himself…I understand the fascination (and thank God it’s not me!) but there’s just something narcissistic about wanting to duplicate oneself! Too cool for there to be only one? LOL There’s a part in that article, though, about human-animal hybrids. The New Agers say “we are all gods”…
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God’s Blessings.
YES! It freaks me out! I’m about ready to become a vegetarian — except that hubby is the BBQ-meister with big bucks invested in his equipment! It’s amazing what we’ve allowed to happen to our food supply. My answer is to buy as much local, fresh produce as possible, and go for natural/organic suppliers for meat. It’s expensive (the meat, I don’t think the farmers market is any worse than the grocery, but that’s probably not an option in Idaho this time of year), but I’d rather not have my girls hit puberty at 8 or subject us all to God-knows-what risks.
I think we have no idea what the real cost of our cheap food supply is — what horrors of GMO’s we’re releasing into the environment, or simply how we’re starving ourselves of basic nutrition and killing ourselves with empty calories. If you haven’t seen the Story of Stuff (storyofstuff.com), check it out … since our food is basically all processed and manufactured, the same applies to the food supply.
Sorry to rant — I’m a bit passionate about this issue!
Odale, thanks for stoppin’ by. Wondering how you found me.
This whole cloning thing bothers me for sooo many reasons. It’s just wrong, too many negatives I think.
Maria, we have some farmers markets here, but I’m not sure how much is grown here. We can always get corn from local farmers in the fall, and of course potatoes come from here;-)
We are trying to get good at gardening so we can grow our own food. I have talked to our church about going in together to raise our own meat too. We live in a rural area, so it would be easy to do. I find myself re-thinking what we are putting in our mouths. I have had cancer, and I want to take any risk I can out of the equation for my kids!
thanks for poppin’ in! BTW rant away!
Baby, the meat for the meatloaf you made tonight was not cloned. Wonderful dinner, but when will you get to doing the dishes, I have a hockey game to watch…
I don’t get it… is it somehow supposed to be cheaper to clone animals than to reproduce them the old-fashioned way? All I can think of is the phrase, “That was a really good steak… have you got any more?”
Hey Brother M, no, apparently it is really expensive to clone the animals, but what I read is that they will use the off-spring of the cloned animals. I really don’t understand why there is a need for this, but it is the government we are talking about!
i suspect if we applied the “seventh generation” test to this we might come up with different conclusions. (i.e., if we eat meat-fruits-vegetables-grains from genetically altered sources and their progeny, how will that affect our progeny seven generations from now?) and even if the FDA et al thinks they know that there is no harm done, the truth will not be known for a 100 years and then it’s too late. also, do we really know what may transpire with genetically altered food sources and unforeseen vulnerabilities to diseases and pestilences and such? that’s a lot of responsibility for any acronym agency to take on … too much, in fact.
Brad, nice to hear from you again;-) I agree, it is too much, and the FDA doesn’t seem to heed the warnings from outside agencies about the heath risk with this subject or with much of any other subject, ie antibiotics ect.