America Says "Yuck" to Eating Clones
I posted a while back about how the FDA decided not to require that growers/packers label cloned meat as such.
Here's my take: Ick. And ick. The FDA says the government can't tell the difference between meat from cloned animals and meat that came about in the, uh, regular way. Yo, FDA, here's a hint: THE CLONED MEAT CAME FROM CLONED ANIMALS. THAT ARE CLONES. We don't know enough yet. From what I understand, clones still tend to be sicklier and die earlier than their—um—parents? I'm not ready to guess what's going on at an atomic level.
And I sure don't want to feed my daughter cloned meat.
Turns out I am far from alone. The Food Marketing Institute found in a recent survey that U.S. consumers are highly uncomfortable with food from cloned animals (scroll down). Here's the highlight:
Looking at the potential future of food, consumers are not yet comfortable with eating products from cloned livestock. Six in 10 (61 percent) are not comfortable, including 31 percent who are "not at all comfortable." If such products are sold commercially, more than eight in 10 consumers (84 percent) believe cloned foods should be labeled as such. In fact, six in 10 hold this view "strongly."
Too bad the government is not listening to average Americans. How's about a little transparency, at least in the things we feed our families?
