cloned meat/milk?
How is this a good idea?
Does having an entire population of animals with exactly the same genetic makeup (and thus, the same genetic vulnerabilities) packed into a CAFO, dosed with the exact same antibiotics and hormones, etc. seem like intelligent food security to you?!
A disclaimer: My training is in geology and environmental science. I haven't had a biology class since high school. The people doing this work must at least be better versed in biology than I am, and maybe they see benefits that I do not.
I do, however, grow plants. In growing plants I've noticed some things, like how some of my potato varieties are more resistant to Colorado potato beetles and how some of my tomatoes are quite susceptible to blights and fungus. If I don't grow a couple different varieties of a vegetable that is important to me, I risk not having reasonable crops if one pest or another is particularly bad in a given year.
I like a well-marbled steak as well as the next carnivore. However, I am not interested in eating the SAME steak every day. Perhaps there really is solid research proving beyond a reasonable doubt that consumption of cloned animal products pose no health risk to humans. If it's "solid research" like that used to justify the giant human-subject GMO experiment currently underway in this country, I'll not be eating the products of cloned animals, thanks all the same.
But will we have a choice? Will the cloned products be labeled? Or, like GMOs in the US, will it be the worst sort of blind lottery, where we have to rely on the oft-misleading label or on the pledge of the manufacturer that what we're eating is GMO- or artificial-hormone-free?
Just thought you should know. *sigh*
Does having an entire population of animals with exactly the same genetic makeup (and thus, the same genetic vulnerabilities) packed into a CAFO, dosed with the exact same antibiotics and hormones, etc. seem like intelligent food security to you?!
A disclaimer: My training is in geology and environmental science. I haven't had a biology class since high school. The people doing this work must at least be better versed in biology than I am, and maybe they see benefits that I do not.
I do, however, grow plants. In growing plants I've noticed some things, like how some of my potato varieties are more resistant to Colorado potato beetles and how some of my tomatoes are quite susceptible to blights and fungus. If I don't grow a couple different varieties of a vegetable that is important to me, I risk not having reasonable crops if one pest or another is particularly bad in a given year.
I like a well-marbled steak as well as the next carnivore. However, I am not interested in eating the SAME steak every day. Perhaps there really is solid research proving beyond a reasonable doubt that consumption of cloned animal products pose no health risk to humans. If it's "solid research" like that used to justify the giant human-subject GMO experiment currently underway in this country, I'll not be eating the products of cloned animals, thanks all the same.
But will we have a choice? Will the cloned products be labeled? Or, like GMOs in the US, will it be the worst sort of blind lottery, where we have to rely on the oft-misleading label or on the pledge of the manufacturer that what we're eating is GMO- or artificial-hormone-free?
Just thought you should know. *sigh*