FDA's OK May Spark 'Clone-Free' Labels

AP News ^ | 28 Dec 2006 | LIBBY QUAID

[mysterio]

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.

[org.whodat]

it's more likely they'll raise the price on the product labeled "not from cloned,"

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.

[Arizona Carolyn]

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?

[MHGinTN]

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.

[org.whodat]

which I think are getting into our kids.

ROFLOL, have you seen any black helicopters over your house?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

You can eat it if you like, but I'm going to avoid frankenfood, if at all possible. It looks like we may not get the choice, though, if they stealthily introduce it without labels.

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?

[Tanniker Smith]

You Are Not Cleared For That.

FNORD!

[BlazingArizona]

Neither of us want to eat cloned meat so we'll be looking for labels that state the meat comes from non cloned animals.

Since a clone is nothing but an identical twin, does that mean that you'll be checking for twin calf births to avoid?

[ASA Vet]

organic everything cost more than regular, sugar free and reduced sugar sells for more,

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.

[BlazingArizona]

Just say no -- to frankenfood!

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?

[org.whodat]

It has to be due to the food (the hormones in meat and milk), and all the additives

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?

[mysterio]

It looks like we may not get the choice, though, if they stealthily introduce it without labels.

See post 37 for a shopping guide. No labels needed.

[ASA Vet]

Thanks for the list.
Interesting that I've never heard of the brands in green.
Maybe the lists producer could also provide an average comparison price for each item.
In the interest of full disclosure you know. What are they hiding? The government should require it.

[saganite]

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.

[RightWhale]

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.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Do you know what type of hormone beef farmers use and why?

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.)