Bill Would Require Labels on Cloned Food

ComeBack writes "Steaks, pork chops, milk and other products from cloned livestock would have to be clearly labeled on grocers' shelves under a bill pending in the California Legislature. If passed, the requirement could be more stringent than federal rules. The Food and Drug Administration is poised to give final approval to meat and milk from cloned animals without any special labeling, though a bill introduced in Congress would require it."

Comments

Somewhat surprising

[WindBourne]

Just recently, the FDA has quietly changed the labeling requirements on using irradiation to package food with. Now, It is called pasteurization. Yup, just like Milk's process (which simply flash heats and cools the milk).

Do not get me wrong. I have no qualm about eating irradiated food. But I do believe that I should get to know what I am eating. As it is, it bother me that the markets are required to show that a fish comes from china (as it should), but a dog food with imported products such as Wheat Glutin can be labeled as made in America/Canada.

Re:Good thing it isn't on fruits and vegitables

[Smurf]

I think you are a bit confused as to the definition of cloning.

No, precisely his point is that most people (including you) are very confused as to what cloning really means. It just turns out that cloning vegetables is so much easier than cloning animals, that we have been doing it for -literally- centuries.

Re:Why I want GM & Cloned foods to be labeled.

[shaitand]

'They get diseases more easily, have shorter life-spans and suffer from all sorts of weird conditions like organs that grow at freakish speeds which results in hideous deformities.'

Yup, but the lifespans are irrelevant since we kill off these animals ahead of time anyway. The diseases we check for, so again, it doesn't matter.

I was born in cow country. All the abnormalities and birth defects occur with normally grown animals as well, they occur more frequently with clones. I could hang around a couple farms for no more than 2 years and show you enough animal deformities and abnormalities to make you swear off the regular stuff (not that the farmers would be inclined to let me document that). More frequent abnormalities occur with inbreeding and how much more inbred can you get than a clone?

I'm with those who are selling the meat. Its all the same thing.

Re:Why I want GM & Cloned foods to be labeled.

[BlueTrin]

Well not really like the other poster said read some papers.

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Scientists found out that Dolly is actually one of the best clones ever made, most of the attemps done on mammals did not give as good results.

When we speak about defects, we mean that none of them is normal, natural born animals have defects usually but in a lesser percentage and do not transmit to the next generation these problems if too important since they just die before to be able to ...