Cloned Meat=Heebie-Jeebies
16 01 2008Hearing that the FDA has approved the sale of cloned meat and the offspring of cloned animals leaves me thinking that I might just be eating less meat in the future…I just can’t stomach the idea of eating cloned beings when we have no idea what the long term effects are, we know cloning causes multiple problems for the animals, and I can’t see the wisdom in narrowing our animal gene pool…Are we going to end up with one cloned cow someday that gives us the perfect ground-beef for all of our hamburgers? What happens when they get a disease? Why in the world do we feel the need to clone animals? Is there a severe, life-threatening shortage of meat? Ugh…
Interesting reading…
hey leah,
yeah i completely agree. thats pretty gross. why would anyone want to clone, yet alone EAT a cloned animal. its pretty sicking…ugg
I heard this FDA approval yesterday & I just about choked. How gross! Thanks for the links. I’ll check them out…
So, do you think this will put normal ranchers out of the market? I’m sure there must be some regulation on telling people if it is cloned meat or not…. I wonder if this will change the price of regular meat?
Why would the “long term effects” of cloning animals affect the meat you eat… those animals never made it to “long term”.
Krista,
Right now that FDA is not requiring that cloned meat or the offspring of clones be labeled. Some companies can choose to be “clone-free.”
Giselle,
I used long-term too carelessly- I was writing it in the context of the unknown long term effects of any human eating cloned meat. It is something we have never done before, and it sure isn’t something that is seems to be in what I understand as the order of Creation… It might be fine, but then we just don’t know.
me no eat neither.
This is so troubling. I do not want to buy meat and be unsure if it’s been cloned. Yuck. Blah. More meat troubles…maybe I should go vegan?!
So. Gross. I don’t eat beef anyway but now I’m going to have to be extra careful to buy all organic chicken and eggs and turkey. USDA - sticking it to the consumer daily.