Showing posts with label Livestock Production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Livestock Production. Show all posts

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Cloned meat to market

But now they have this handy dandy tracking system!:
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The Biotechnology Industry Association (BIO) has launched a tracking system that allows food companies to track cloned livestock throughout the food processing chain.

The system was launched Wednesday a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a draft risk assessment that meat and milk from cloned animals were safe for human consumption.

BIO, which represents 1,100 companies and cloning organizations in 32 countries, urged the FDA to release a final risk assessment on the safety of food products from cloned animals, Agence France-Presse reported.

They say it's to pull the products if there is a moratorium on them... maybe if we start to glow in the dark?

I know, I know. Cloned meat is safe to eat. But why does this make me feel like becoming a vegetarian?

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Save the earth, prevent global warming....

Eat less meat:
London, England (AHN) - Cutting world meat consumption by 10 percent would significantly slow down the impact of global warming, a new research has found.

Writing in the latest edition of medical health journal The Lancet, the scientists advised people in rich countries to limit their meat consumption to the equivalent of one hamburger per person per day to help reduce global warming.

"Worldwide, agricultural activity, especially livestock production, accounts for about a fifth of total greenhouse-gas emissions, thus contributing to climate change and its adverse health consequences, including the threat to food yields in many regions," write the authors.

Researchers believe that cutting global red meat consumption from an average of 100g per person per day to 90g would cut the gases emitted by cows, sheep and goats that contribute to global warming.