When someone refuses to tell you what is in the food you are eating

Would you eat it? Especially if it's a corporation that is relying on your money for its existence?

Besides, cloned meat is good for you! Because we said so! So why do you need to read about what is in your meat?

Steve Bates at The Yellow Doggerel Democrat:

For those nut-cases among us (and yes, I am one such) who think there is no way the industry can make that statement of equivalence with any confidence of its truth over the long run, shouldn't we be allowed to avoid eating cloned products? After all, we're allowed to drink fat-free milk (thanks to a label), eat produce grown without chemical pesticides (thanks to a label), and eat 100% whole-grain breads (thanks to a label). We are allowed to do so, or not, at our own discretion, for no better reason than that we think those characteristics confer some advantage to us as consumers... no scientific proof is required of their superiority, only consumers' desire to control their own intake. The meaning of all those labels is under federal regulatory control. Why should cloned foods not be similarly labeled? There is no rationale for making such an exception; there is only political pressure applied through money, money and more money.

We are already eating genetically altered vegetables, Monsanto has unleashed the Terminator Gene which sterilizes plants, super rats are becoming immune to poisons.... so what's a cloned burger or two?

Moo?



Update: Spocko discusses the contaminates in the pet food and how the FDA is not telling us the truth:

Did you know that ConAgra cut a deal with the USDA so that they didn't have to notify the public about the locations of where tainted beef was shipped? Yep, and during our first mad cow scare that meant that a Vietnamese restaurant in Truckee, CA served people mad cow steak. Why? Because the information about where the food was shipped was dubbed proprietary in the "rules" negotiated with the USDA and big Ag. Is something similar going on now?

And these are the people who insist that cloning is safe. Maybe it is, but I do not trust the present FDA and the Bush administration. Give us all the information and let us decide. We are utimately responsible for our own lives, let us make the choices. I do not wish to be Enroned and Katrina'd to death, thanks.