Posted on 12/30/2006 4:46:34 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
No one is hiding it. They just don't want a government mandated label that people won't understand. And the responses on this thread already prove the hypothesis that most people won't understand. The information is already out there, as I've shown. No need for legislation.
Thoughtful post, but current marketing prove you wrong, organic everything cost more than regular, sugar free and reduced sugar sells for more, range chicken(just means they eat a lot of cow droppings) is higher, and so on.
But since as you said there is no way to tell the difference in cloned and non cloned, so I don't see the problem.
Why does the FDA think it's safe for us to eat cloned meat, hormone fed cows, chickens, etc., and milk that has been monkeyed with, yet want to limit our access to vitamins, herbs and homeopathy?
Ping to an article you may enjoy reading ... cloning animals is already begun, but not for food, yet. In Texas, there is a cloning company (Savings and Clone; catchy name, that) who will produce a clone of your favorite pet! They have cloned cats.
ROFLOL, have you seen any black helicopters over your house?
I don't like people tampering with my food. It even bothers me that they add vitamins. Who knows what else they're adding that they're not telling us about? It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if that turned out to be true. We already know that girls are entering puberty earlier and earlier. It has to be due to the food (the hormones in meat and milk), and all the additives. It's also from the synthetic materials that are everywhere.
What they need to do is concentrate on food safety. That should be their number 1 priority.
But, think about it, if they're going to add cloned foods & frankenfoods without telling us, doesn't it make you wonder what else they're adding without telling us?
FNORD!
Since a clone is nothing but an identical twin, does that mean that you'll be checking for twin calf births to avoid?
You're looking at it ass backwards. Non-cloned will be the new "organic hoax." Cloned product will be the standard the marketers will be using to peddle their "natural" not man made product at a higher price.
I can foresee the quality of the un-cloned product actually going down. It would not be wise to sell superior animals as food when they could be used as clone patterns for their entire natural life. Inferior animals deemed useless for cloning can then be sold as "un-cloned," "natural," "real," or whatever hype words the advertising geniuses can come up with to target those willing to pay more for less.
Since genetic modification of food began with Gregor Mendel, that would mean avoiding most of what we have been eating as a matter of course for generations. For example, where do you still find those original-style corncobs that look like meth teeth? Can you buy then off the Greenpeace site?
I would say you are partly correct, it is the diet. Americans have the best diet in the world. What is the average height of a 16 year old girl today and how does it compare to fifty years ago? On the farm health animals breed earlier.
Do you know what type of hormone beef farmers us and why?
It's far from a twin. Cloned animals have not proved to be healthy in the long run. Surely you remember Dollie's demise. In any case it's a matter of personal choice and I'm sure many besides my wife and I will elect not to eat cloned meat despite snide remarks by folks like you.
We learned that everyone is individual and unique in the Cherry2000 movie and even changing only the CD program disk alters the personality to a strange, alien, and cold entity.
No idea as to what type. But it's probably to keep the cows heavy. More meat = more money, if they sell by the pound. More meat with less fat. That would be my best guess. (I'd ordinarily look it up, but I can't right now.)
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