A Clone: It's What's For Dinner
Posted by Rebecca Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:28:00 GMT
Here is an interesting article on the “cloned meat” issue of late.
If you didn’t know already, yesterday the FDA gave the green light for the meat of offspring of certain cloned animals and their milk to enter the food supply.
Can you say “controversy?”
What bugs me the most is that right now, labels are not required for this kind of meat, and there’s a high probability that some has already been in the food supply for awhile. That burger you ate for lunch that’s making you sleepy? Its grandmother may have been a clone.
I guess this bothers me because I feel that I have a right to know if that New York Strip that I bought the other day is a clone’s offspring. Why do I feel I have a right?
Let me ask you this. Have you ever come across a package of sausage or hotdogs that didn’t list what kind of meat they were made from? What about a canned meat product (if you’ve eaten them or read the label for sheer entertainment) like potted meat, vienna sausages, or spam?
No?
Of course not, because almost every Muslim and Jew in the nation would refuse to purchase something that contained meat that might be pork but isn’t labeled.
Why?
Because according to their religious and cultural convictions, it’s immoral to eat pork - a downright sin, even.
So what about the people who have a problem with cloning because of their religious outlook on life? What about their desire to not eat meat from an animal that had a cloned ancestor? Do they not count?
If farmers and ranchers want to do this, I can’t stop them. But out of respect for the views of people in this country, Mr. FDA, please require a label on the meat. People should have the right to choose what they eat.
And to all you people who complain that beef is tough and that meat from the offspring of clones would be more tender, I can only say this:
Learn to cook. If you have a tough steak, there’s a very large chance that it’s your fault.
