Comments on: FDA: Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe

Agency Says It's 'As Safe To Eat As The Food We Eat Every Day'

[annd2302]

I tend to learn more and more all the time. I suppose that is the reason I alone have an opinion, as each of you do, and it is mine and I can change or alter it at any time. I will be more cautious in the future prior to making rash statements. However, I do believe whole-heartily each and every one of us should be heard on this if so desired. It is like the person said previously , "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO EAT IT"

[jenjensg]

I do not understand people's reluctance to progress. Do we not educate ourselves to better our civilizations future? Are we not one step closer to fixing world hunger? I am all for cloning animals for survival. Ask any starving child in Africa if he/she cares where their food comes from. I am excited and thankful for science today. I guess you know where I stand. Jen (Nevada)

[jimzyg]

So now I'm the food Nazi... great! In the Nobel Prize winner's defence, he was only describing the condition not creating it.

Also, my statement about the media was not a blanket statement. It's just that when people write things like: "..after the chemicals build up and kill you." Well, where do YOU think that comes from? Definitely not a science book.

I can understand people wanting the right to know, and I'm all for it. You can call the company HQ and find out. But to force a lable and then enforce it causes a lot more problems than it's worth. Not the least of which is that labeling food that IS NOT DANGEROUS causes those labels to lose their credibility.

The FDA can not become an agency which panders to the paranoid uneducated minority.

[shepherdsgat]

I beleive that cloned products should be clearly marked. The standard for these food products should be as all others.

Consider all the products, meds etc on the market which are no longer on the market which has caused all kinds of sickness. What will they say about these cloned products in about 5 years or so????

I do now want to eat cloned meat or any other product that comes from cloned products.

[jsilver2th]

To jimzyg:

Don't be so ready to blame what you view as people's views as being the product of being "scared into percieving danger... by the media."

You eat what you want to eat and let the rest of us do the same.

And why should our government consider our opinions? You and the government must have exclusive insight to all forms of truth.

Your views were once expressed by Hermann Muller one of Hitler's Nazi Biologists: "Unless the average man can understand the world that the scientists have discovered... he will fall into the position of an ever less important cog in a vast machine... and the minority that rule over him will eventually find ways of doing without him." And this is an eminent scientist who won a Nobel Prize.

Now I guess it is time for us to shut up and eat what you order us to eat. We get the message. Bye Bye freedom. Hello ....

Peace Out.

[bwright923]

I agree with jimzyg!

[poshpony-2009]

And this approval is from the same government that approved for safe and effectiveness every drug that has subsequently been recalled because it kills thousands. Still want to each FDA approved food?

[jimzyg]

I think a lot of people who wrote in don't quite understand what "cloned" means. It is not the same as genetically modified, or enhanced. There are no steroids or pesticides. It is an exact copy of a naturally born cow. You have all been scared into percieving danger where ever technology and food meet by the media. Why? Because that is what you like to watch on tv. You feel that those shows alow you to avoid the dangers becaus you know about them. The problem is that you don't realy understand them, so you belive that every advancement in food production is somehow bad. That is why I am glad the FDA won't realy consider your opinions when deciding on this matter.

[jasperlily]

And how come we just heard on tv that it's the bio-tech corporations which are really pushing hard for this approval, as opposed to the farmers, packers et al? How many guesses do we need to answer that one?

[jasperlily]

So how come they tested only those cloned animals who were not malformed or having cancer - the minority, in other words?