Here it comes into our food...Rockville, MD (AHN) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will likely allow next week the sale of meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring. The decision is the result of six years of study and discussion on the issue, likely to be controversial.
An FDA preliminary assessment on December 2006 said products from cloned animals are safe to eat. However, pending the agency's issuance of its final ruling, the FDA asked producers of cloned livestock not to sell their products for food, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Despite the expected issuance of the much-awaited FDA ruling next week, it will be three to five years before the cloned animal's meat and milk will likely be seen on dining tables, kitchens and refrigerators. Most of the existing stock of clones are for breeding purposes only.
An FDA draft risk assessment report written by Melissa Carter pushed for the labeling of cloned products to distinguish it from regular food items.
Update: So how long after eating this meat will we turn into zombies?
7 comments:
Three words: Know. Your. Sources.
The FDA is abandoning its responsibility. That doesn't mean that many suppliers of organic produce, dairy, meat, etc., many of whom see it as a point of pride, will allow their own products to be adulterated if they can help it... and I suspect they have a fair amount of information from other sources about their own suppliers.
What it does mean is that new suppliers of "organic" products, etc. will have to prove themselves somehow. We have to develop our own sources of information. In other words... from now on, the grapevine will be the supplier of organic grapes.
Exactly. Monsanto won in Pennsylvania and prevented nonrBST milk suppliers from saying they didn't use rBST. California, they can say so.
We will need to focus on our food suppliers and make sure they know we know what they are doing. And that we blog...
God I'm glad to be out of Pennsylvania.
Solanum isn't real, though.
Are you so sure....?
AARRRrrrRRrrr...Brains! Braaaaaiiiinnnnssss... (Shades of Zell Miller)
How does one push for the labelling of such? It is unfair to the public that they are kept in the dark regarding the non-labelling of these cloned products. The FDA has no basis that these products are safe as they have not as yet been consumed, or have they already without the public's knowledge? People have the right to know what they are buying. I know that this is occurring in the U.S. I live in Canada, and I believe Canada will follow suit, as they always do. Therefore, I am interested as to know how to bring, or aid, in the endeavour to have these foods labelled "cloned" as they should be. Thank you. Diane. diane_dub@hotmail.com
Thank you for your comment, Diane. I have no answer but to shake my head sadly.
We've been eating genetically modified foods already with no public reaction or outcry. Just recently I saw where corporations were pushing the argument that now there's an economic downturn AND a food shortage, we must start wide spread usage of GM foods.
Anything to make a buck... including sacrificing the public's health.
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