Comments on: Cloned meat cleared for the US http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/01/clonedmeat.html Your organic food and organic lifestyle magazine Fri, 09 May 2008 23:56:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Elisabeth Winkler http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/01/clonedmeat.html#comment-5306 Elisabeth Winkler Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:21:26 +0000 US farmers have been given the green light to produce cloned meat for the human food chain. In a report billed as a "final risk assessment" of the technology, the US Food and Drug Administration has concluded that healthy cloned animals and products from#comment-5306 Thank you for highlighting this important and disturbing news. I believe cloning is not common knowledge in the US, and may be slipping under the radar like GE foods. Here in the UK, a farmer was set to sell the offspring of a clone at a local cattle market (near Bristol). It received a lot of publicity. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/02/foodtech.food http://tinyurl.com/2f4tky However the result was no less reassuring because the adverse publicity made the farmer decide to sell privately. I can't believe selling the offspring of clones is not subject to regulations when we know NOTHING of the long term human health effects of cloning. All we know is that it is not good for the animals... http://www.foodqualitynews.com/news/ng.asp?id=83487. I agree with your conclusion! Eat organic meat! Thank you for highlighting this important and disturbing news. I believe cloning is not common knowledge in the US, and may be slipping under the radar like GE foods. Here in the UK, a farmer was set to sell the offspring of a clone at a local cattle market (near Bristol). It received a lot of publicity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/02/foodtech.food
http://tinyurl.com/2f4tky

However the result was no less reassuring because the adverse publicity made the farmer decide to sell privately.

I can’t believe selling the offspring of clones is not subject to regulations when we know NOTHING of the long term human health effects of cloning. All we know is that it is not good for the animals…
http://www.foodqualitynews.com/news/ng.asp?id=83487.

I agree with your conclusion! Eat organic meat!

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