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."

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UGH!

[posterlogo]

How about a bill that requires labeling of all 'unnatural' food stocks? Like pretty much everything domesticated by humans in the last 15,000 years. This is ridiculous. I once saw a TV program where the host went around asking people if they would ever eat anything with DNA in it and most people seemed to get disgusted. We seriously need better K-12 education.

Frankenfood? No thanks!

[Orion Blastar]

The number of food allergies increased after we had genetic engineering of food, think what it will increase to after we allow cloned meat.

I already have some bad food allergies, I don't need any more. Eating meat used to be a lot safer than eating genetically engineered fruit and vegetables for me, but now with cloned meat I might have allergies to cloned meat, after you genetically engineer food and clone meat, we people with food allergies won't have anything left to eat. What is there to eat that isn't genetically engineered or cloned these days, rocks, dirt, water, seaweed? They're killing me, with science!

Re:The Point?

[dsanfte]

By contrast, the way we do it is we have some mummy sheep, and for every fifty or so we get a daddy sheep. Then some time in about September or October we leave all the daddy sheep in a big field with all the mummy sheep. After a couple of weeks...

...we get a set of lambs with completely untested genomes. Several of them will be stillborn. Another percentage will be born deformed. Some will carry genetic diseases, or recessive lethals and die within their first few months. If they don't die right away, there's every likelihood they'll be butchered and cut up for legs of lamb for the supermarkets.

You really have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Have you ever taken a single university-level Genetics course? I would be stunned if you had, Luddite.