Next year the FDA will approve cloned meat & milk for consumers without labels. What do you think about that?

Question

According to the FDA, since cloned foods are very similar to regular foods, they see no reason to lable these items for consumers who do not want to each cloned items. How do you feel about that?

I feel the same way Mr. Roberts. The last year or so I've slowly weaned myself off of many foods, and I'm slowly working on mea(left dairy alone last year). My goal is to eat at least 75 percent vegetarian meals. Though I'd prefer to go 100% raw vegan or vegan, but I'm not sure if I could go that route. Maybe I'll switch to just seafood. I don't think they have plans of cloning fish yet. Or do they?

Answer 1

Its 2007 and it seems we have finally caught up to the future! Soon you will be able to buy cloned meats at your local supermarket. Here’s the part that scares me, some expert went on record stating “there is absolutely nothing wrong with cloned meats, so we don’t believe the meat requires any special warnings.” I strongly disagree with selling of cloned meats and even more, not marking the meat as cloned. All of a sudden the vegan thing is looking so much better to me

How many times have we heard the “there’s nothing wrong with this product” quote, until someone announces a nation recall because they found something wrong with this product. What's wrong, cows aren’t reproducing fast enough that now we have to call in scientists? I guess soon we will have designer cows. Imagine this, you go to some swanky restaurant and order a Louis Vuitton filet mignon, specially cloned with the trademark Vuitton logo for, lets say 500 dollars a cut. I can see the lines forming waiting to get the next seating. Or even better yet Albertsons opens a special designer cloned food section which could mean that regular meats will now be found in the generic food section.

Here’s what I think if cloned meant were labeled as cloned, there would be a lot of unsold Angus on the refrigerated shelves. The US Food and Drug Administration claims that American consumers won’t mind, I hate to break this to powers to be, but last time I checked I was a consumer, and I mind. And I know at least a couple dozen other consumers who “mind” as well.

I’m personally open to try anything once, within reason, but I think it’s only fair that I know what I am buying. You as the consumer should also we aware of what you’re buying, just in case someone twenty years from now discovers that cloned beef, pork, lamb or what ever they decide to clone next actually has problems. That way we don’t have 200 million plus people wondering if they need to get a special cloned meat shot What I mean is this, if I never eat cloned meats and it turns out there was a problem with designer meats, I won’t be affected.

It’s the future, I would have preferred the flying car rather than designer meats!

Answer 2

Big deal. Your body doesn't have a clue whether the protein came from a another animal or a test tube or an animal that is it's exact copy of itself...... Meat is meat. Although I say this cloning and toying around with genetics leave me in the lurch. I don't think it would be good be cloning people, but animals for food and stuff, I think that it's ok, but then again, where do you draw the line? Humanity has a way of continually moving that line.

Answer 3

I am scared. I Quit beef, because of the horrors of how they are raise. I sutdied how THe mad cow epidemic started, and was because people thought there was no harm to feeding cooked meat to cows. Now we have a new disease. A lot of disease started from changes in farming practices. Swine flu. E. Coli (Don't remember the serotype) nad salmonella. What makes me mad is that the US is forcing Europe to accept genetically engineered food with out labeling. This is not what WTO was meant for. The main issue is if all the cows are the same, they are far more susceptible to disease. Farm biodiversity is at an all time low.

Answer 4

I was thinking of that earlier while reading the article on Yahoo. Frankly, I think I am going to start paying more attention to organic meats... something about eating a cloned animal just doesn't sit well with me.

Answer 5

I think there should be labels indicating that the products are from cloned animals. Let the consumers decide what they want to buy.

Answer 6

The cloned animals couldn't read anyway.

Scientifically, I don't see a problem with it, but physiologically it is disturbing.

Answer 7

I think it's fine... meat is meat. A cloned cow is a cow. Cow=beef.

Answer 8

it doesn't really effect me because I'm vegan.I went vegan because factory farming,but this takes it up to a whole new level.

Answer 9

I think this is crazy and I won't be buying it.