Hey! Yep, our friends over at the Food and Drug Administration (the FDA to their closest friends) have done it again! Yay for them! Because they've cleared the way for us all to someday be eating cloned meat. Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Yes indeed, the FDA says that "The data show that healthy adult clones are virtually indistinguishable." Tasty! But opponents have this to say: "If you ask what's for dinner, it means just about anything you can cook up in a laboratory," which is closer to my thoughts about it.
Sure, it could be years before cloned meat hits our tables, since the cost is thus far prohibitive, but I'm thinking we might as well go vegetarian now anyway. Just in case. I know, I know, if a clone is "virtually indistinguishable" from it's parent animal, what's the big deal, right? The big deal is that some previously undetected problems in said parent animal could be reproduced over and over, spreading some Cloned Cow Disease to everyone's tables before anyone knows what happened.
And, well, the whole thing just makes me go "ew." I'm already dubious about genetically-modified foods (which are in SO many foods it's scary) and irradiated foods, etc etc, so I don't see the need to clone animals to kill and eat them (not that I'm a fan of factory farming to begin with, but there's the whole extra "ew" factor in clone farming).
I can't be way off base here, can I? This is creepy, right?
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