- Helllo, Jeff - The US FDA announced that food from
cloned animals is safe to eat and does not require special labeling.
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- The FDA is totally insane.
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- Cloned animals have had genetic manipulation of their
DNA and - in my opinion and that of consumer and food safety groups - the
meat is not safe. It may look normal but it is very, very risky consuming
altered and modified DNA.
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- Genetically modified DNA from GM plants were found in
animals that had eaten such plants. We are now dealing with cattle and
other mammalian livestock proteins and the public has a right to know if
they are consuming cloned meat and milk.
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- If it is so safe then why not label the meat products
as origin from cloned animals? Why hide the fact?
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- This is just plain nuts.
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- Patty
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- From
- http://archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/animalnet-archives.htm
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- Cloned Food
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- By Libby Quaid
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- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
plans, according to this story, to brief industry groups in advance of
an announcement Thursday morning that it has decided that food from cloned
animals is safe to eat and does not require special labeling. The FDA indicated
it would approve cloned livestock in a scientific journal article published
online earlier this month.
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- Consumer groups say labels are a must, because surveys
have shown people to be uncomfortable with the idea of cloned livestock.
- However, FDA concluded that cloned animals are "virtually
indistinguishable" from conventional livestock and that no identification
is needed to judge their safety for the food supply.
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- Barb Glenn of the Biotechnology Industry Organization
was cited as saying labels should only be used if the health characteristics
of a food are significantly altered by how it is produced, adding, "The
bottom line is, we don't want to misinform consumers with some sort of
implied message of difference," Glenn said. "There is no difference.
These foods are as safe as foods from animals that are raised conventionally."
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- Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food
Safety, was quoted as saying, "Consumers are going to be having a
product that has potential safety issues and has a whole load of ethical
issues tied to it, without any labeling."
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- Carol Tucker Foreman, director of food policy at the
Consumer Federation of America, was cited as saying the FDA is ignoring
research that shows cloning results in more deaths and deformed animals
than other reproductive technologies.
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- The consumer federation will ask food companies and supermarkets
to refuse to sell food from clones, she said.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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