02.02.07

The FDA Drones are Ready to Approve Clones

Posted in General at 1:20 pm by MamaSaid

Since I’ve been blogging, I’ve done a lot of well-deserved Bush-whacking. However, today I am shifting gears to another disturbing topic – cloning animals for milk and meat productions intended for public consumption.

On December 28, 2006, conveniently sandwiched between the distractions of the holidays and New Year’s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) presented a nearly 700 page “draft risk assessment” that concluded milk and meat from some cloned farm animals was safe to eat. Furthermore, FDA officials stated because food made from cloned animals is indistinguishable from other food, it was unlikely that any special labeling would be required.

Okay, this brings me back to the fact that I feel America is becoming a dictatorship that spies on its people and does not have to answer for its own actions – a looming hypocrisy. Although illegal wiretapping has been allowed, we do not have the right to know how and where our food comes from. In a recent New York Times article, Joseph Mendelson, legal director for the Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group, states, “At the end of the day, FDA is looking out for a few cloning companies and not for consumers or the dairy industry.” He and other consumer representatives state that most people are opposed to cloning animals, don’t want to eat them and feel that this could open the door for human cloning.

My sentiments exactly. If they can flush cloning animals and feeding them to us, it is only a matter of time before these same mad scientists claim that cloning animals helps to find cures, eliminate disease, creates needed body parts, etc. Cloning is not natural and not acceptable.

Stephen F. Sundlof, the FDA chief of veterinary medicine told the New York Times that milk and meat from cloned goats, pigs and cows and their offspring was “as safe as the food we eat every day”. He further said that by law, the agency could consider only scientific issues and not ethics or consumer demand. Isn’t life a scientific issue as well as the ramifications of tampering with it?

The International Dairy Foods Association, an industry trade group, took a survey that revealed that 14 percent of American women would avoid all dairy products if milk from clones was introduced into the regular food supply. A poll conducted by the nonprofit Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology found that 64 percent of consumers were uncomfortable with animal cloning and 46 of consumers were strongly uncomfortable.

I am strongly uncomfortable with cloning. A 22-page report from The Organic Center, “Is the FDA’s Cloning Proposal Ready for Prime Time?” reveals some of the shocking facts about animal cloning and what makes it unacceptable. Jim Riddle, organic outreach coordinator at the University of Minnesota and author of the report, states, “Animal cloning is not allowed for organic production under the USDA National Organic Program for several reasons. Since cloning relies on cell fusion, it is explicitly prohibited in organic production. Clearly, cloning is not possible under natural conditions.”

 

I agree – how could cloning occur under natural conditions? The government is more uncivilized than animals, who would never begin to tamper with life like this. The deadline to oppose is April 2 – think April fools.

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1 Comment »

  1. concerned consumer said,

    February 8, 2007 at 2:53 am

    I was reading somewhere that dolly the sheep had died after a relatively short time and so have other critters they have successfully cloned. Could you find out more about that as it is important and one doesn’t get to hear about the horrible demise of said clones, only the fact that they actually did the deed and cloned something.

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