Terrifying News
The Washington Post reports some terrifying news. The FDA is set to issue approval for cloned animals to be used as food. Now they have done this after extremely rigorous testing. They actually followed honest-to-goodness, real science. That's just plain scary in this day and age of junk science fads.
WHEN YOU TRY your first clonedog, you might not even notice. The Post's Rick Weiss reported Monday that the Food and Drug Administration is expected to vouch this week for the quality of meat and dairy products from cloned animals and their offspring. So far, ranchers and breeders have voluntarily kept food from such animals off of Americans' dining room tables. That will probably change soon.
A recent poll by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology indicates that a majority of Americans get queasy at the thought of clonal animal products lining supermarket shelves. But to its credit, the FDA stuck to the science — the great bulk of which supports its reported conclusion.
In a study set to be published in January, scientists at the Agriculture Department's Meat Animal Research Center raised over 400 animals — more than half of them offspring of clones — in identical conditions. An independent lab scrutinized more than 14,000 characteristics of the animals' meat composition and health, and only one animal returned results considered abnormal. This mirrors the findings of other studies.
As if actually following rigorous science isn't enough to scare you, think of the obvious implication here. If cloned livestock is approved, can cloned politicians be far behind? Just visualize 50 John Kerry clones flip-flopping about like a freshly netted haul of herring. Scared yet?
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