R.C. Anderson
FDA Set to Approve Cloned Animals for Food
December 30th 2006 18:15
The FDA has decided that cloned animals are nearly indistinguishable from conventional animals and can be sold as food. They will have a comment period open to the public starting 28 Dec 2006 and ending in March 2007. Many people have already weighed in on the matter, including some senators, who notice that the public is not enthusiastic about the technology.
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Comment by katyzzz
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I just hope the FDA is right and there are no unsuspected consequences. I can understand the reluctance of the common man. They often have their own paticular kind of wisdom.
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Comment by Lilla
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this one boggles my mind?
Do cloned animals grow faster than naturally bred ones?
Or is it because you can grow 100 instead of just one or two at a time... grreat, I get that... but what is going to feed the 100 growing animals? I just finished reading an article about the shortest grain crop in human history in 2006 and how it's getting worse ...
Hey, Maybe they can clone animals to feed animals to feed humans... I'm sure the FDA wouldn't notice the degenerated state of mad cow potential in all this cannibalism...
.. to me it is all too disgusting to contemplate, let alone digest and not constructive at all... but then I am fully aware of what the FDA isn't and what they already allow us to eat and put on our skin!
Great Post Adele, Keep 'em coming!
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Comment by Adele
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Cloned animals do mature faster than natural animals. But that's not necessarily a good thing. They also age faster and develop health problems. Cloning is still inexact and the cloned animals are defective copies. It's possible that they're getting closer to good copies, but I haven't seen that in the news.
The companies say they will use this technology to clone the best animals and keep them around for breeding long after the original animal has died, but with defective genes, I think that can't be what they will do with them. I really don't know what they can want to do with this. It doesn't make sense.
Is the article about the grain shortage online? I'd love to read it.
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