FDA set to approve meat and milk from cloned animals as safe to consume

by Brian White (Subscribe to Brian White's posts)
Jan 6th 2008 1:22PM

Are you prepared for the Food and Drug Administration to say that meat and milk products derived from cloned animals are safe for Americans to consume? I am not sure I am, although this week may bring that decision, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In the past, cloned livestock meat and milk producers could not sell those products until the FDA made a decision on the safety of consumers. It seems like that day is now near. Not only are cloned animal products at stake here, but products made from their offspring as well.

With the state of obesity from eating too much processed foods existing in the U.S. already, do we really want to begin eating products made from cloned animals any time soon? I'm quite sure big business wants to produce these products from herds of cloned animals -- but would you serve these products to your family?

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Jo 1-06-2008 @ 3:30PM

Not only is it concerning that long term research has not been done, it is frustrating that they will probably make it illegal to label whether or not there are cloned products in any given food.

Vishaal 1-07-2008 @ 12:00PM

This is absolutely disgusting.

shaky 1-12-2008 @ 8:13PM

FDA better lable that it is cloned... it is bad enough we have to eat animals, I do not want to eat a cloned one from someones lab....

Duanne 1-14-2008 @ 6:19AM

This is why eating organic food without additives, preservatives and chemicals that the body cannot handle is so important. In my opinion eating cloned food WILL make you sick and the thought of it is just another way for big food companies to make food in bulk without regards to nutritional value or the health of the people who eat it....

clmtbooza 1-12-2008 @ 8:20PM

The biggest bummer is that the FDA will approve it because the FDA approves anything that will make them and big business even more money! Then sending us to the hospital so we can be given drugs for all are ills we're catching just eating food!

ICK 1-12-2008 @ 8:37PM

One question. WHY? How hard is it to breed a cow vs cloning? Not to mention the expense.

Would I eat it or give it to my family? NO!

NORMA 1-12-2008 @ 8:47PM

NO, NO,NO, AND NO I DO NOT WANT CLONED MEATS, MILK OR ANY OTHER THING. SICK AND DISCUSTING

Patricia De Range 1-12-2008 @ 8:53PM

I guess I'm missing somthing...I don't understand why the hoop-la over cloned food? How can it hurt any one if the original animal or veggie was in top shape?

S. Elizabeth 1-12-2008 @ 10:48PM

Well you can go ahead and give your family food from cloned animals and then tell the rest of us how safe it is. I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER eat food from cloned animals. We dont know what kind of chemicals are used in the process and what the long term effects will be. Cloned animals are man made dont you get it. So there is a big deal. The government is pushing it and it is only amount of time before something pushes back. Good luck and YOU eat cloned food.

mlc 1-13-2008 @ 1:01AM

You tell me? How can you be sure? On the DNA level, what does cloning really mean? How are cells really affected? Is the nucleus altered? What about the mitochondrion? It has it's own DNA! Is it altered?

diana 1-12-2008 @ 9:03PM

oh my lord. they better lable everything, because there is absolutely no way in hell I would ever eat cloned meat. There hasn't been any long term research done yet. It could be extremely unsafe. Honostly, I think I just vomited in my own mouth, that's how sick the FDA gets me. Big business everything.....I'm going to canada

Al Schrader 1-12-2008 @ 9:15PM

Most species have been bred, and re-bred so many times that there is little difference to a clone.
The same factors still apply, the recipe, and the skill of the chef.

Chef Alfred
alfredschrader@aol.com

Theresa Pickles 1-12-2008 @ 9:28PM

I would not eat that crap if I knew it was there but I think it will get so bad we'll be deceived into eating it just like what used to be considered "futuristic" the movie Soylent Green. Our food handlers will disguise and feed us anything as long as their rich asses consume the real food.

Tiffani 1-12-2008 @ 9:41PM

My husband and I are blessed enough to live out in the country, and when this business about cloning came about, we decided to start farming. We will 'live off our land', so to speak, having our own chickens (food and eggs), cows (milk and meat) and a garden. We will also only support food industry places that serve uncloned products. Ben and Jerry's ice cream has already made a dedication to not use any animals from the cloning process.

henry vergara 1-12-2008 @ 10:18PM

it's not right to eat unnatural foods for sure there's a reaction in our metabolism this is destroying us human beings so don't buy this product

bill 1-12-2008 @ 9:52PM

I wouldent mind to much if the cost was less for cloned meat and milk. But I def. think they should be labled as
being cloned. It should be up to the consumer if they want
to obtain these products. Me myself I really havent made
up my mind on it. But I would try it at least once just out
of curiousity.

Grimace 1-12-2008 @ 10:04PM

Its time to become a vegetarian

Christine 1-12-2008 @ 10:03PM

Yet, another good reason to consider being a vegatarian and drink soy milk. What next.......humans? How about the idea of marrying a clone? I don't care what they say about it being healthy to eat.....I not buying it literally!

Mary 1-12-2008 @ 10:07PM

Everyone in this country that wants to live a normal healthy of a life as possible should stay away from many things already on t the market today. I was a healthy active person all my life only to be stuck down with breast cancer on October 23rd. Go figure. I was just in to have an annual mammogram in May this year.... All was fine they said until in August I found a lump myself. After another mammogram, sonogram, and high resolution imagines I was sent for a biopsy. Positive for Breast cancer with the first lymph gland under my arm enlarged and the fluid inside positive for cancer also. There is something going on in our food chain, our water, the chemicals they use to grow our food, harmones they inject cows with and the things we use for cleaning or something we just are not aware of yet causing all these cancers that people of all ages now days are getting now days. There is more cancer going on now than ever before. I hope that it is not something our own government just want tell us about. I recently saw out in California that the resovours that supply drinking water for a large city were shut down because chemicals that were being used to treat the water were being effected by the suns rays and were causing carcinigens (cancer causing agents) to be produced in the water. How do you think the people feel that drank that water now ??
I am in the middle of Chemo now. If hell is bad then I already know how it is there ! Chemo is hell ! Please pray that this cancer I have will go into remission after I finish with these treatments. I pray none of you ever get cancer and will try hard to choose the foods you eat wisely. I don't know what else to say to you all. Society is at the mercy of something very strange going on. Have a blessed day.

Cheryl 1-13-2008 @ 12:21AM

Mary I agree with you about all the chemicals that are used on the food we eat such as preservatives and the chemicals that are used to keep pests off of them while growing. If everyone pays attention there is chemical in everything we eat in some way. Look at the labels on the food. If it is man made it is not natural and is harming us in some way whether short term or long term. All these items in the stores now that say they are organic. I don't believe that either. I think that most soil these days has chemical in it. Look at all the years that factories put chemicals in the water and out into the air before some agency cracked down on them. Everything is affected even the rain. We are literally killing ourselves with chemicals and now they want us to eat man made (cloned) meat and veggies and fruit. They may have already fed it to us and now they just want to make it open. I will keep you and other cancer victims in my prayers.

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