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I’m not a big advocate for cloning, nor am I a fan for consuming genetically modified or enhanced food. Call me peculiar, but I am very leery about what I put into my body. I understand that the FDA based their conclusions on a six year study, but I also know that the data was provided by cloning companies, standing in the shadows, eager to push this technology onto American consumers.
Am I disappointed in the FDA’s hasty move to fill our belly’s with under-studied, test-tube meat? Why should I be? The FDA’s decision to approve such a practice falls right in line with their decisions on the drugs they choose to and not to approve.
In 2000, The Los Angeles Times reported how a new policy led to seven deadly drugs – all approved by the FDA, including the antibiotic, Raxar. Raxar was cited as a suspect in the deaths of 13 patients. It was approved in November of 1997 in spite of the evidence that it may have caused several fatal heart-rhythm disruptions (ventricular arrhythmia) in clinical studies. Characteristically, FDA officials decided to exclude any mention of the deaths from the drug's label; however, the maker of the pill, Glaxo Wellcome, withdrew it in October 1999.
Just to give you an idea, I won’t even eat farmed fish. I am an avid label checker, and unless my fish is from the wild, it won’t meet my mouth. Am I a stickler about my food? Very much so, but I’m not the only one with major concerns.
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Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By Michelle Kenneth, March 28, 2008 at 07:36I went to a raw food class last night and I have to say that the most disgusting part of the whole class was finding out that our fruits and vegetables have been injected with animal cells so that they will last longer. In Europe, genetically altering food or injecting it with any substance is ILLEGAL. In America, almost all our food is laced with toxins and animal products. And they wonder why America is so obese! They need to stop tainting our food!
Our food and water is not safe at all. So in an effort to protect my own body, I am going greener than green. Organic fruits and vegetables, as well as buying from local farmers who are not vested in by the government and scientists, is the ONLY way to go.
Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By bedazzled, January 17, 2008 at 20:14Cloned M-E-A-T?? ok at what point did they start to think this was a good idea? Bit to much liqueur on the staff night out?
#1- Well you know its kinda like growing a vegetable really
#2 - Meat and veg sounds better already
#1- Oh and we could throw in some catch
#2- Like?
#1 -Eh, its environmentally friendly! Cows produce methane, driving the beasts around to be slaughtered, come on help me out here man!
#2 - SOLD! You had me at meat and veg, the green bit is just genius, right lets P-A-R-T-Y!!!!
Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By Heather Wallace, January 17, 2008 at 23:20"Bit to much liqueur on the staff night out?" - that's hilarious. But cloning is surely not. Holy cow. No pun intended.
Heather Wallace
senior editor
Orato.com
Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By bedazzled, January 18, 2008 at 18:51You are what you eat, the best way to train people is not to make clones, let each individual grow to its full potential, in that product will grow.
Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By luyen, January 17, 2008 at 19:53I equally find it very worrisome, that somehow technology is making food better? In what way? Isn't food grown without chemicals, antibiotics and medical manipulation already good enough for us?
It seems like they are looking for a solution to a problem that just doesn't exist...and moreover, they are putting the public at risk based on very limited knowledge- no matter how good your science is, you cannot say with certainty what affects our health, and in what way in the long, over generations, not just over a study of 5 or 10 years...
There's more than an "ewww" factor here, and it's the role of a major corporation like Monsato and its influence on the agriculture and husbandry industry, the pressure they put on farmers and so forth...it's just plain wrong...
What's even more wrong is as we become more aware of organic food, not everyone can afford it - and then it becomes a question of the have and have nots, when food should really encompass a wholesome process and philosophy.
Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By Trisha Baptie, January 17, 2008 at 18:29I read another story about cloned meat yesterday, and to me it just seems to be so many diffrent levels of wrong I don't even no where to start.
So I will second Robyn's well spoken EEWWWWW.
Re: Turning My Back On FDA Approved Cloned Meat
By Robyn Stubbs, January 17, 2008 at 16:44One word: Ewwww.