http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fda-cloned-meat-safe-to-eat.html
FDA: Cloned meat safe to eat
By Care2 editorial staff
JANUARY 17, 2008—Well, hello Dolly.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it found no evidence that cloned meat poses any kind of public health risk, removing the final barrier to selling meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs and goats in the United States.
Additionally, the FDA asked the meat and dairy industries to continue its voluntary ban on using cloned animals. The moratorium does not apply to the offspring of cloned livestock.
Cloned cows, pigs and goats won’t reach the top of the food chain anytime soon, since the cost to clone an animal is prohibitively high.
It is expected that clones of the best breed stock will be made to produce offspring for human consumption.
The FDA decision on labeling is the most controversial as it doesn’t plan to require that products indicate whether the meat or milk was made from cloned livestock.
Care2 members indicated their opposition to the consumption of cloned livestock in a recent poll of 2,589 members. Sixty-two percent said they wouldn’t eat it, 27 percent said they don’t eat meat and 11 percent said they would eat meat from cloned animals.
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add your comment »WOW, this is some shocking news. Doesn't suprise me though.
I have been workin hard here in Canada to write a book to send Government after quite a bit of research, to prove the difference between research and health. I have one hundred interviews with men and women who not only treated cancer but cured it, and I want to find out why these "Researchers" are not studying them to find out what they did. Making some good headway but I think that there is far more invloved than just policies. Trying to convince Health Canada that Doctor's are not always right especially when 22 billion dollars a year is at stake is a tough thing to do and has gotten me in some trouble as well as the MD turned Naturopath that they tried to have barred from the College of Physicians and threatened his life.
Ahh the wonderful world of freedom LOL.
Thanks to all for your wonderful contributions it is so lovely to see so many people who have a free enough mind to not believe everything that media and Governemnt tell them and to not be afraid to speak out. I am proud of you all.
Peace be with you
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The thought of cloning alone makes me uncomfortable, I don’t want to even think about eating anything cloned; it is not our decision to produce life when it is convenient for us.
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I just have a question for the meat eater. How will you know if you are or are not eating cloned meat if the FDA isn't going to reqired labeling?
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