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"...Believe me, its safe!" Today the FDA and last week the EU approved cloned animals. Now I'm wondering if fluffy is real or cloned...anyway, I don't see any problem with this, Do you?
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14 responses // FDA Approves Cloned Aminals for Food and Milk

  • Cloned food = less biodiversity. Less biodiversity is a terrible disaster waiting to happen. I am so glad I am a strict vegetarian organic consumer.
    uroborus8
  • It's only when they're clones of clones that it becomes a problem.

    According to CNN, 64% of the people polled would not eat cloned meat. Now, I am a vegetarian too, but I have to wonder who they polled. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would love to eat our leftovers, let alone cloned animals designed purely for food.
    Themostfunpersonever
  • I love moments in history when we are given actual glimpses into the apocalypse. By the way, who the **** are they hiring over at the FDA?!
    Filmpunk
  • I don't think the issue is people with big stomachs and tiny minds, which you've seemed to realise yourself, since you edited that portion of your comment. The issue is that there's not enough food to sustain more than 66% of human life on Earth, and this is a viable method of feeding the 33% who are starving. Why don't we ask them what they think? Or are they tiny-minded pinheads too?
    Themostfunpersonever
  • Do enlighten me on how the FDA approving this attrocity in the U.S., a country with a massive obesity problem and a population largely disconnected from the actual origins of the 'food' that they are shoving into their mouths, is going to benefit the rest of the world!

    The issue I was commenting on, as raised in the article above, has nothing to do with helping out 3rd world countries and everything to do with maintaining the unsusatinable demand for meat products that has been set by factory farming in our own nation.

    But hey, maybe you're right? Why demand more sustainable and ethical food production here in the U.S. when we can now gorge ourselves guilt free courtesy of these new Frankenmeats?

    If you're down with McMerica more power to ya'. I'm not losing any sleep over what's passing through your colon!

    Cheers
    Filmpunk
  • As I said, I am a vegetarian. As such I do not eat meat, or have any interest in what other people eat.

    And there is a hunger problem in the US too. Some 50 million Americans are almost as starving as any third world person you could meat (pun intended, obviously). A rampant hunger problem, ghettos, and people living on welfare would certainly much rather eat genetically improved clone meat than what passes for beef in your average fast food chain. What's the problem with that? I suppose you're against GM crops too, despite the fact we've been genetically modifying crops and livestock for centuries.

    It's not a question of ethics or sustainability either. We're going to eat meat one way or the other. I'm sure the animals would find either method unethical.
    Themostfunpersonever
  • So you're under the impression that poeple are starving here in the U.S. because there is a food shortage? Nothing about the selling of cloned 'meat' is going to address why there are people who are going hungry here in the states.

    Where are you getting the information that this new technology will mean cheaper, higher quality meat to be distributed equally amongst the world's poor? I see no mention of this anywhere and yet you keep trying to push the point that I am somehow against a new era in humanitarian aid brought about by cloning and selling animals!

    As of now all that has been said is that the FDA is approving the selling of cloned animals. There has been no mention of using this technology to end world hunger or to feed America's poor.
    Filmpunk
  • People ARE starving in the US. Legalizing the selling of cloned meat would enable us to address the situation as it would reduce the need for breeding livestock.

    And while there has been no confirmed interest in feeding the poor via this method, I have spoken to several organizations who said that they would be in favor of doing so.

    And you haven't said what is WRONG with selling cloned meat. You're used catchy jargon like Frankenmeat, but you have not supported why you are against such measures. You said yourself that you have no interest what I pass through my colon, so why should what others pass through theirs be any different? Veal, McDonald Hamburgers, and seal blubber are all readily available already, and I don't think it's possible to get any worse than that. The cloned animals would be bred purely for consumption and would be as at risk of mutation or sickness as any other meat eaten today.
    Themostfunpersonever
  • I understand that people are going hungry in this country. What I am not understanding is how the cloning and selling of animals to the American public is going to end this problem.

    You keep making the connection between cloned animals and ending hunger in America so I am going to ask you this once again, are you saying that the reason we have people going hungry in America is because there is a shortage of meat?

    Are you saying that the current administration truly wishes to be able to feed each and every American citizen but are simply unable to do so due to this food shortage in our nation?

    You seem to be missing the fact that this technology was developed to continue supplying beef at the rediculous rate that is now being demanded in our fast food nation.

    There is NO mention that this new technology will be used to feed the poor and end world hunger. This is complete speculation on your part.

    Please tell me how you see the legalization of cloned animals as the answer to end hunger.

    Do you honestly think the government is going to fund the cloning of animals to feed the poor? Do you think a private interest is going to pony up the cash to selflessly fund this project?

    Furthermore, please illuminate me as to how a beef 'shortage' in the United States has led to people going hungry.

    I'll go on record now saying that you are completely off the mark in asserting that this new technology will be put towards ending hunger in the U.S. and abroad.

    What it will be used for is to produce cheaper, larger quantities of 'meat' in order to meet the insatiable appetite of the American consumer.

    It will be used like all corporate funded research technologies-to make a profit. Ethical and health concerns be damned!
    Filmpunk
  • I have outlined my opinion. You have failed to show me how cloning our meat is any more unethical or unhealthy than the practices we are currently using.
    Themostfunpersonever
  • So no answers to my above questions? Fair enough.

    Like you said, you were simply outlining an opinion and an opinion doesn't necessarily need to be based in fact.

    Attempting to show you that cloning animals is any more unethical than other practices now in use was never my point to begin with thus I have not 'failed' at anything.

    I think the current state of factory farming to meet a demand fueled by overeating and unsustainable consumption to be disgusting. Adding cloned animals into the mix is just another step in the wrong direction.

    But hey, that's just MY opinion.
    Filmpunk
  • did ya ever see the movue-Solyent Green?
    jerrye
  • Why answer your questions again, only for you to use some more McJargon that has filled your Frankenlexikkkon? I have answered your questions, presented facts, and tried to show how cloning could alleviate the hunger problem. What have you done? Nothing. You have avoided all of my questions.

    Overeating is a problem, I agree with you on that. But cloning, far from adding to that, is a viable solution to other problems. You have yet to show how or why this FDA legislation is going to promote overeating. Where are your figures? People overeat because the meat is cheap, readily available, and tasty. It has nothing to do with farming methods. Maybe if you could buy a meal at an Organic Food Store for $2, we would see a change in trends. However, even a carton of eggs in a n Organic store is close to four or five dollars. If you think that over eating is a problem, you need to go after the source of the issue. Overeating and the demand on meat is cause by the millions of poor people who can't afford anything else and are not in a position to improve their diet.

    Take any Downtown area, or ghetto. Aside from one or two expensive food stores, everything else is cheap junk food. If you had to live on three dollars a day, and had a limited education in proper eating, what would you pick?

    The solution to overeating is as follows: Better education, more inexpensive and available healthy food options, a taxation on the obese, a viable method to produce cheap, healthy food en masse.
    Themostfunpersonever
  • This is a another incarnation of the nightmarish freakshow which is the corporate takeover of food. Cloning and all other practices which destroy biodiversity must be repelled!
    OldBullBand

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