F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe

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ARGGG!!! I' m just figuring out how to raise all of my own meat now. I already

do my own milk (goat) and veggies and fruit...These people are crazy. Why clone

something that is sooo easy to breed.

 

Courtney Kinear <ckinear wrote: F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned

Animals Is Safe

 

By ANDREW MARTIN

Published: January 15, 2008

 

After years of debate, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declared that

food from cloned animals and their progeny was safe, removing the last

government hurdle before meat and milk derived from copies of prize dairy cows

and superior hogs can be sold at grocery stores.

 

The decision comes more than four years after the agency tentatively declared

that food from cloned animals was safe, only to face a backlash of criticism

from consumer groups and some scientists who said the science supporting the

decision was shaky.

On Tuesday, the F.D.A. declared that further studies had confirmed its earlier

decision.

" Following extensive review, the risk assessment did not identify any unique

risks for human food from cattle, swine or goat clones, and concluded that there

is sufficient information to determine that food from cattle, swine and goat

clones is as safe to eat as that from their more conventionally-bred

counterparts, " the agency said in a statement.

 

The F.D.A. ruling was a major victory for cloning companies, which hope to use

the cloned animals primarily for breeding purposes, selling copies of prize

dairy cows, steers and hogs.

Consumer groups and some members of Congress have fought the decision, arguing

that there was still not enough science to support such a decision.

 

It remains to be seen how widely the technology will be adopted. Interest from

the food industry has been tepid, with some companies declaring that they will

not sell milk or meat from cloned animals or their offspring.

 

Even if the technology is widely adopted, it is unlikely that clones themselves

will wind up on grocery shelves, since they cost thousands of dollars apiece to

produce. A limited amount of milk from cloned cows might be sold, but mostly it

would be meat and milk from second- and third-generation offspring of clones

that would enter the food supply.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/business/15cnd-clone.html?_r=1 & hp & oref=slogin

 

 

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[Guest guest]

The problem with cloning is that it completely eliminates biodiversity

via sex which is the preferred mechanism that nature uses to adapt to

pathogens and parasites... this means that these " master breeder " clones

will sire(generate) descendants that may require even more frequent use

of antibiotic drugs and other unnatural means for staying healthy! In

the long run, this might actually result in species extinction or

complete dependence on cloning with its corollary, genetic engineering,

to create a human equivalent to natural selection! Here we go again,

humans playing God!

 

Courtney Kinear wrote:

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> F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe

>

> By ANDREW MARTIN

> Published: January 15, 2008

>

> After years of debate, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday

> declared that food from cloned animals and their progeny was safe,

> removing the last government hurdle before meat and milk derived from

> copies of prize dairy cows and superior hogs can be sold at grocery

> stores.

>

> The decision comes more than four years after the agency tentatively

> declared that food from cloned animals was safe, only to face a

> backlash of criticism from consumer groups and some scientists who

> said the science supporting the decision was shaky.

> On Tuesday, the F.D.A. declared that further studies had confirmed its

> earlier decision.

> " Following extensive review, the risk assessment did not identify any

> unique risks for human food from cattle, swine or goat clones, and

> concluded that there is sufficient information to determine that food

> from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as that from

> their more conventionally-bred counterparts, " the agency said in a

> statement.

>

> The F.D.A. ruling was a major victory for cloning companies, which

> hope to use the cloned animals primarily for breeding purposes,

> selling copies of prize dairy cows, steers and hogs.

> Consumer groups and some members of Congress have fought the decision,

> arguing that there was still not enough science to support such a

> decision.

>

> It remains to be seen how widely the technology will be adopted.

> Interest from the food industry has been tepid, with some companies

> declaring that they will not sell milk or meat from cloned animals or

> their offspring.

>

> Even if the technology is widely adopted, it is unlikely that clones

> themselves will wind up on grocery shelves, since they cost thousands

> of dollars apiece to produce. A limited amount of milk from cloned

> cows might be sold, but mostly it would be meat and milk from second-

> and third-generation offspring of clones that would enter the food supply.

>

>

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