FDA OK's food from cloned animals

[Big_Pete 0]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061228/ap_on_sc/cloned_food

 

I think they should put a label on the food that is from a clone, and then make it 1/2 the price of non-cloned stuff and watch all these fockers b1tching about it gobble up tenderloin selling for $2/lb

[phillybear 365]

Screw the food. How much longer until I can take a cloned Jennifer Love Hewitt home with me?

[Big_Pete 0]

Screw the food. How much longer until I can take a cloned Jennifer Love Hewitt home with me?

it was either yesterday or the day before that Australia lifted the ban on human cloning.... so that is currently your best bet! get a lock of her hair and travel to Australia!

[Toro 1]

If it is not genetically, chemically, structurally, or in any other way different than other meat, I'm all for it.

 

I still want a label though.

[De Novo 0]

it was either yesterday or the day before that Australia lifted the ban on human cloning.... so that is currently your best bet! get a lock of her hair and travel to Australia!

What an ethical nightmare... but a good idea no less.

[VikesFan 1]

I'm generally fine with it, though after finding this article, I didn't realize there was something worth investigating:

 

Please note, taken from this site. Interesting read.

 

#11 Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed

Sources:

 

Independent/UK, May 22, 2005

Title: Revealed: “Health Fears Over Secret Study in GM Food”

Author: Geoffrey Lean

 

Organic Consumers Association website, June 2,2005

Title: “Monsanto's GE Corn Experiments on Rats Continue to Generate Global Controversy”

Authors: GM Free Cymru

 

Independent/UK, January 8, 2006

Title: GM: New Study Shows Unborn Babies Could Be Harmed”

Author: Geoffrey Lean

 

Le Monde and Truthout, February 9, 2006

Title: “New Suspicions About GMOs”

Author: Herve Kempf

 

Faculty Evaluator: Michael Ezra

Student Researchers: Destiny Stone and Lani Ready

 

Several recent studies confirm fears that genetically modified (GM) foods damage human health. These studies were released as the World Trade Organization (WTO) moved toward upholding the ruling that the European Union has violated international trade rules by stopping importation of GM foods.

 

Research by the Russian Academy of Sciences released in December 2005 found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed GM soy died within the first three weeks of life, six times as many as those born to mothers fed on non-modified soy. Six times as many offspring fed GM soy were also severely underweight.

In November 2005, a private research institute in Australia, CSIRO Plant Industry, put a halt to further development of a GM pea cultivator when it was found to cause an immune response in laboratory mice.1

In the summer of 2005, an Italian research team led by a cellular biologist at the University of Urbino published confirmation that absorption of GM soy by mice causes development of misshapen liver cells, as well as other cellular anomalies.

In May of 2005 the review of a highly confidential and controversial Monsanto report on test results of corn modified with Monsanto MON863 was published in The Independent/UK.

Dr. Arpad Pusztai (see Censored 2001, Story #7), one of the few genuinely independent scientists specializing in plant genetics and animal feeding studies, was asked by the German authorities in the autumn of 2004 to examine Monsanto’s 1,139-page report on the feeding of MON863 to laboratory rats over a ninety-day period.

 

The study found “statistically significant” differences in kidney weights and certain blood parameters in the rats fed the GM corn as compared with the control groups. A number of scientists across Europe who saw the study (and heavily-censored summaries of it) expressed concerns about the health and safety implications if MON863 should ever enter the food chain. There was particular concern in France, where Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen has been trying (without success) for almost eighteen months to obtain full disclosure of all documents relating to the MON863 study.

 

Dr. Pusztai was forced by the German authorities to sign a “declaration of secrecy” before he was allowed to see the Monsanto rat feeding study, on the grounds that the document is classified as “CBI” or “confidential business interest.” While Pusztai is still bound by the declaration of secrecy, Monsanto recently declared that it does not object to the widespread dissemination of the “Pusztai Report.”2

 

Monsanto GM soy and corn are widely consumed by Americans at a time when the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has concluded, “In several cases, GMOs have been put on the market when safety issues are not clear.”

 

As GMO research is not encouraged by U.S. or European governments, the vast majority of toxicological studies are conducted by those companies producing and promoting consumption of GMOs. With motive and authenticity of results suspect in corporate testing, independent scientific research into the effects of GM foods is attracting increasing attention.

 

Comment: In May 2006 the WTO upheld a ruling that European countries broke international trade rules by stopping importation of GM foods. The WTO verdict found that the EU has had an effective ban on biotech foods since 1998 and sided with the U.S., Canada, and Argentina in a decision that the moratorium was illegal under WTO rules.3

 

Notes

1. “GM peas cause immune response–A gap in the approval process?” http://www.GMO-Compass.org, January 3, 2006.

2. Arpad Pusztai, “Mon863-Pusztai Report,” http://www.GMWatch.org, September 12, 2004.

3. Bradley S. Clapper, “WTO Faults EU for Blocking Modified Food,” Associated Press, May 11, 2006.

[Vikings4ever 535]

In the forseeable future, there's not going to be a lot of meat from cloned animals.

 

It's way more expensive to clone an animal than to let it happen the old fashioned way. Like they say in the article, about the only cloned meat you'll be seeing is from animals that have outlived their usefulness as breeders.

[parshall2marshall 0]

We all gonna die.

[Big_Pete 0]

and you totally have to take "fact" from consipiracy theorist sites with a grain of salt!

THey are like stephen a. smith... they only talk in facts... and if someone questions them with common sense, they scream louder than you with their "fact"

[Fervid Ro 0]

We all gonna die.

you first.

[Guest Davaco]

i say label it cloned and uncloned and see what consumers buy

[VikesFan 1]

and you totally have to take "fact" from consipiracy theorist sites with a grain of salt!

THey are like stephen a. smith... they only talk in facts... and if someone questions them with common sense, they scream louder than you with their "fact"

 

Don't disagree there, though this guy was kind enough to put some sources down. At least you can look into his research.

[TheNewGirl 1,174]

I hope they label it, because I won't be eating it.

[cgod 0]

I hope they label it, because I won't be eating it.

It's all pink in the middle

[TheNewGirl 1,174]

It's all pink in the middle

 

 

LOL, nope. I have enough food issues. Cloned meat is something I don't want to worry about.