Comments on: Cloned meat cleared for the US http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/01/clonedmeat/ Your organic food and organic lifestyle magazine Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alex http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/01/clonedmeat/comment-page-1/#comment-5340 Alex Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:25:02 +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-5340 You only have to look at the 'frankenstein' chickens to see how this is not a good idea. These grew faster so they would cost less to produce for the supermarkets. They would also have problems standing up because their bodies gre so fast their legs couldn't support them. Lets be totally honest here. It's all about producing cheaper food. There will always be a substantial amount of people who want cheap food. You can't tell someone the difference in taste between something organically reared compared to cheaply produced meat. You have to taste it to really know. I believe eventually most of us will come to the view that the organic way of sustainable farming will come to the fore. You only have to look at the ‘frankenstein’ chickens to see how this is not a good idea. These grew faster so they would cost less to produce for the supermarkets. They would also have problems standing up because their bodies gre so fast their legs couldn’t support them.

Lets be totally honest here. It’s all about producing cheaper food. There will always be a substantial amount of people who want cheap food. You can’t tell someone the difference in taste between something organically reared compared to cheaply produced meat. You have to taste it to really know.

I believe eventually most of us will come to the view that the organic way of sustainable farming will come to the fore.

]]> By: Friction TV http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/01/clonedmeat/comment-page-1/#comment-5327 Friction TV Wed, 28 May 2008 10:49:27 +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-5327 For a look at cloned meat from the farming industry's point-of-view head to... http://www.frictiontv.com/ftv_debate.php?debate_id=3179 Livestock Editor of Farmer's Weekly Jonathon Long talks about the effect it will have on the farming industry, consumers and the rising food prices. www.friction.tv www.fwi.co.uk For a look at cloned meat from the farming industry’s point-of-view head to…
http://www.frictiontv.com/ftv_debate.php?debate_id=3179
Livestock Editor of Farmer’s Weekly Jonathon Long talks about the effect it will have on the farming industry, consumers and the rising food prices.

http://www.friction.tv
http://www.fwi.co.uk

]]> By: Elisabeth Winkler http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/01/clonedmeat/comment-page-1/#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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