Gimmie a cloned beef burger to go, please.
Cloned Animals Are Safe for U.S. Food, Agency Says
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) – Cloned cows, pigs, goats and their offspring are safe to enter the U.S. food supply, regulators said over protests from lawmakers, consumer groups and worried eaters.
“We conclude that meat and milk from cattle, swine, and goat clones are as safe as food we eat every day,’’ said Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, in a statement today. Authorities lack the authority to require labeling of products from cloned animals, Sundlof said. </em>
I’m no scientist, but the notion that some dink in a lab created my dinner by fiddling with the DNA of a cow? Surely madness this way comes. Call me old fashioned, but all this genetically altered food is wrong. Get a seed, stick it in the dirt, grow an ear of corn. Don’t infuse it with some lab goo that makes it resistant to rot or bugs- that isn’t the way it was made to work, and evolution made it behave in a certain way for a reason. So keep your cloned cow burgers to yourself. I ain’t eating no meat made by a man who has confused himself into thinking he’s an intelligent designer.
