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FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows
phantomlord writes "The FDA is currently set to allow beef and milk from cloned animals onto the market. Further, the products will likely not be branded as such and there is no way to know if we're currently consuming products from cloned animals." From the article: "Farmers and companies that have been growing cloned barnyard animals from single cells in anticipation of a lucrative market say cloning will bring consumers a level of consistency and quality impossible to attain with conventional breeding, making perfectly marbled beef and reliably lean and tasty pork the norm on grocery shelves. But groups opposed to the new technology, including a coalition of powerful food companies concerned that the public will reject Dolly-the-Lamb chops and clonal cream in their coffee, have not given up."
I have absolutly no trouble finding non-GMO food, despite there being no laws requiring GMO food to be labeled. See, it is funny, the people who sell non-GMO food realize there is a market for it, and so they explicitly label their food as such.
The law IS a powerful instrument. So can we expect these FDA regulations to be as effective as our 100 billion dollar and millions in prisons War on Drugs? Or should we expect it to be as successful as our military victory in Iraq? As successful as our public education system? As successful as Amtrack? I am sure the FDA website provides as impartial and accurate information about our victories against tainted food, as does the DEA website about our victory over the drug scourge.
the only way of ensuring that right is honoured is to have legal sanctions against lieing about what is being sold, and uniform labelling standards are by far the most efficient way of doing this.
I hear you on laws against fraud, but why standardized food labeling? You realize there are all sorts of specialty foods, for diabetics, vegans, low-carb diets, Hallal or Kosher, macrobiotics etc., and each could use a food labeling system more specialized for their niche market. If you are worried about meat monoculture, why aren't you worried about labeling monoculture?