Thursday, January 17, 2008

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like the idea of eating cloned food. Even more worrisome is the lack of notification for consumers about whether what they're buying has been cloned. As it stands, we're already very distanced from the sources of our food.

Regardless, cloning is coming:

After years of debate, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday declared that food from cloned animals and their progeny is safe to eat, clearing the way for milk and meat derived from genetic copies of prized dairy cows, steers and hogs to be sold at the grocery store.

The decision was hailed by cloning companies and some farmers, who have been pushing for government approval in hopes of turning cloning into a routine agricultural tool. Because clones are costly, it is their offspring that are most likely to be used for producing milk, hamburgers or pork chops, while the clones themselves are reserved for breeding.

Perhaps, with some news organization moving part of their operations offshore, the next step will be to clone reporters.

1/17/2008 11:12:33 AM by Not For Nothing | Comments [0] |  
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