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US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible
Coldeagle sends us the news that the US Food and Drug Administration has declared that meat from cloned animals is safe to eat. The agency decided that no labeling is necessary for meat or milk from cloned cows, pigs, or goats or their offspring. (Ironically the FDA didn't include cloned sheep in the announcement, claiming a lack of data, though the very first cloned animal was a sheep named Dolly.) The article notes that a couple of major food suppliers have already decided not to use any products of cloning, and that the groups opposed to cloning in the food chain will now concentrate their efforts on convincing more suppliers to boycott the business of cloning. The FDA noted that their focus groups and other public input indicated that about 1/3 of US citizens do not want food from cloned animals under any circumstances; another 1/3 have no objections; and another 1/3 fall somewhere in between.
Will it cost half as much?
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
Edible like in snails, ants and blowfish edible?
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When you find that one really *tasty* chicken... and you eat it... and its GONE?
And never *never* will you find a chicken quite so tasty...?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I've been smoking cloned dope for years.
Whenever a vegetarian bloviates on about how they never eat meat and only eat lettuce, I wonder how they will taste when society collapses and the rest of us to turn them as our protein source.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Great. Now restaurants will stop letting people take their left-over steak home, for fear of having their custom cow breed cloned.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
...tastes EXACTLY like the one I had last week!
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Well, maybe not. Heck, I'm not too worried. Modern breeders of every sort of food animal or pet already have plenty of experience with the effects of too much inbreeding on their stock, I don't think the addition of this tool to their kit will confuse them to the point that it damages the species or anything. If the stock becomes non-viable, they will discontinue the method and reintroduce other genetic lines.
In my opinion, absolute worst case scenario, world wide sheep production dips for a few years when some horrible side effect is first noticed. The price of lamb, mutton, and wool goes up for a while. Then wild and heirloom stocks are reintroduced, the problem is solved, and we move on.
But you have to admit, now there's a teeny tiny part of you that's worried about zombie sheep.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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Ahh... the cloning technology has arrived to Slashdot!
No, what I really want to know is if they can make a naturally spicy chicken, cayenne, garlic, maybe some basil. If some teenagers (with some help from MIT) can make ecoli that smells like mint or bananas, surely Tyson can make me a prespiced chicken. Or the obvious chocolate milk giving cow. How much harder can that be than the company that made goats that spin spider silk into their milk? The precautionary principle upsets me greatly. All the neo-Luddites and misguided religious zealots are stealing my chance at cool stuff like uploading and prespiced chickens!
"Yesterday is for mice and gods."
refactor the law, its bloated, confusing and unmaintainable.
Actually I know how to clone a cow, but I'm a Hindu, so could someone show me how to clone a chicken? Thanks in advance...
Sort of a feeling of Deja Moo?
"Yep, that is another big duh that city slickers don't understand. They cry about ethanol too, not realizing corn prices are set on the Chicago Board of Trade, not supply and demand, and that the prices have to do with NAFTA removing protectionist rules, not ethanol production, which is still minute."
Thbbtttt...the supply and demand problem comes with corn now having high prices and farmers reducing their hops and barley crops in order to cash in on high corn prices. Now the damn beer prices are going to go through the roof. Fucking Chicago Board of Trade and ethanol producers are going to kill my buzz.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
> I try to buy as much organic food possible.
Me too! That inorganic stuff is completely inedible...
If you disagree with me on social issues, then it's pretty clear that you are a narrow-minded bigot.
Thats just MSRP. If you look around you can take an invoice to the dealer and hassle them to get your price at or below invoice *with* goodies like an extra horn, an integrated bell, and leather seats.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. -- George Carlin
No problems that you can remember, you mean ;-)