Dude, you just ate a clone burger!
In news that's sure to make some of you meatatarians out there a little uneasy, rumor has it that unless you've been buying organic, you may have theoretically already eaten products from a cloned animal. In January, the USFDA removed the ban on meat and milk from cloned animals, which means its probably already out there somewhere -- lurking on a supermarket shelf.According to the FDA, there's no reason to worry -- since it's "impossible to differentiate" between products from cloned animals, their offspring, and conventionally bred animals. However, if you are worried, the FDA says don't freak out yet, because very few of the cloned animals have reached the parenting age. Gee, that's comforting, right? Surprisingly, a few of the major meat companies that people love to hate, including Tyson Foods Inc., have policies against cloned animal products.
Despite the fact that no evidence has been found to suggest that eating cloned animal products will screw up our immune systems or DNA, I bet you don't find too many takers when offer your friends a finger lickin' good clone burger, hot off the grill.
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9-04-2008 @ 9:39AM
mavkato said...
they had trouble deciding if it was tomatoes or jalapenos making us sick, but they say it is ok to eat cloned meat? of course i trust that.
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9-04-2008 @ 9:58AM
Baron said...
It would be great if the could find the tastiest piece of meat in the world and just make some clones of it so that we could always have it on hand. Yum.
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