Cloned farm animals

October 31, 2003

Cloned farm animals and their offspring pose little scientific risk to the

food supply, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded in a new

report:

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" ..it's hard to imagine that healthy animals would somehow be capable of

producing unsafe food, " said F. Sundlof, director of the FDA's

Center for Veterinary Medicine, which prepared the report. " No scientist

I've talked to can come up with any rational theory of how that could

possibly occur. "

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It is comforting that the FDAs lack of imagination will allow us to test

eating cloned animals.

In fact it doesn't take much imagination. Many cloned animals do not

survive to adulthood and scientists are not really sure why. They are not

exact clones like a copy machine there are sometimes cellular diffrences.

What this does to the muscle tissue (meat) may or may not be important but

think about things like milk and organ meats and other products that could

be flawed in ways we do not understand.

Once again the American population is being experimented on in the name of

AgriBusiness profits.

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