Turning My Back on FDA Approved Cloned Meat
I'm not a big advocate for cloning, nor am I a fan for consuming genetically modified or enhanced food. Call me peculiar, but I am very leery about what I put into my body. I understand that the FDA based their conclusions on a six year study, but I also know that the data was provided by cloning companies, standing in the shadows, eager to push this technology onto American consumers.
Am I disappointed in the FDA's hasty move to fill our belly's with under-studied, test-tube meat? Why should I be? The FDA's decision to approve such a practice falls right in line with their decisions on the drugs they choose to and not to approve.
In 2000, The Los Angeles Times reported how a new policy led to seven deadly drugs - all approved by the FDA, including the antibiotic, Raxar. Raxar was cited as a suspect in the deaths of 13 patients. It was approved in November of 1997 in spite of the evidence that it may have caused several fatal heart-rhythm disruptions (ventricular arrhythmia) in clinical studies. Characteristically, FDA officials decided to exclude any mention of the deaths from the drug's label; however, the maker of the pill, Glaxo Wellcome, withdrew it in October 1999.
Just to give you an idea, I won't even eat farmed fish. I am an avid label checker, and unless my fish is from the wild, it won't meet my mouth. Am I a stickler about my food? Very much so, but I'm not the only one with major concerns.
Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety has been quoted to say, "The FDA's bull-headed action disregards the will of the public and the Senate and opens a literal Pandora's Box."
I can't go around testing and researching all of my food before I eat it. Unless I have a sponsor whose going to pay all my bills for me while I do this, I have to live and make a living, and I thought I should be able to count on my government for that. Not so.
Cloning is more expensive than traditional breeding so the meat section in the markets won't be flooded with cloned meat right away. How will I know when it is anyway, since none of it has to be labeled as such? In the meantime, I'll be doing more research on my meat-less options.
Published by Kobina Wright
I have written for publications such as LACMA Magazine, and CYH Magazine. In 2004 I published, Say It! Say Gen-o-cide!! - dedicated to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. In 2003 I created the Hodaoa-Anibo langu... View profile
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