Six years of extensive research has proved that cloned meat is OK to consume. The Food and Drug Administration declared that meat and milk from cloned pigs, cattle and goats and their offspring is safe.
"After reviewing additional data and the public comments in the intervening year since the release of our draft documents on cloning, we conclude that meat and milk from cattle, swine, and goat clones are as safe as the food we eat every day," said Stephen Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
But not everyone is OK with eating animal product created in a lab. Activists and politicians have long criticised the FDA for approving the idea so 'suddenly'.
"The FDA has acted recklessly, and I am profoundly disappointed in their rush to approve cloned foods," said Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski.
Her thoughts were agreed by Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety: "The FDA's bull-headed action disregards the will of the public and the Senate and opens a literal Pandora's Box."
My thoughts on the whole idea? I actually don't eat meat but the idea of cloned animals doesn't all together freak me out. The genetic duplicated embryo is artificially implanted into a mother host that is of the same species of animal. The newborn is an exact genetic copy of its parents and as long as they're healthy then the cloned animal will be healthy. Better then mystery meat? Source.
17 January 2008
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Tags: Cloned Meat, FDA
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