Cloned Food is Uber safe. Don't Question it.
This Affects Everyone and Everything. Much like GMO's, this cloned product does not have to be labeled, so we will never know weather or not what we are eating is safe or from a sci-fi movie. There are many reasons why we should be alerted to these actions, namely because no one has any idea what this can do the human body.
1.17.2008
Be Afraid...
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“When you buy a box of Cheerios in New York and one in Champaign, Illinois, you know they are going to be the same,” said Jon Fisher, president and owner of Prairie State Semen in Illinois. “By shortening the genetic pool using clones, you can do a similar thing.”
I really don't want my meat to be as universal as cheerios.
I can believe that they've allowed this to go through, but it makes me sick to think that food created this way doesn't have to be labeled at all. What will be forced to happen is a similar situation to the one we have now with organic, free range, fair trade, or non-GM foods in which companies with morals and clean consciences (at a price) will feel it necessary to label their products, when they should never have to worry about it in the first place. It seems strange that this forces good companies to have to work to set themselves apart when those that are participating in a potentially dangerous new science can begin (or continue) poisoning us in the name of efficiency.
It's not GM foods and clones that we should fear. I see no reason for those kinds of foods to be any more harmful than the parent organism, as they're genetically identical. It's not like anything is being added to the new food. It's just a little gene manipulation.
But then again, I'm not an expert on it (as if the so-called experts we see on the news would tell us the truth anyway).
What we need to be afraid of is hormones. This shit is still around, even though people have supposedly become more aware of it. The hormones that they give chickens to make them larger literally make the chickens' legs break under their weight, and this is the stuff we're in turn putting into our bodies (biomagnification). That's why the overall population is now bigger and taller than before they started putting hormones into our food. It's not because of better nutrition; just think about what this country eats!
The standards for these "organics" - I wouldn't trust them either. Unless you grow them on your own farm and know exactly what's going into them. And all free range means is that the animals are not enclosed in tiny cages way too small for their bodies. The next step up, which is the food that gets labeled as "free range," is packing hundreds of animals into one small building so that they have barely enough room to move. Is this what we want to be putting into our bodies?
I'm afraid we hardly have a choice.
I would like to see some data on that hormone thing Rebecca. I don't think I've ever heard that before. I've definitely heard that hormones are bad news.
Filabusta,
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/hormones.htm
http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factsheet/Diet/fs37.hormones.cfm
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/1994/102-8/focus1.html
^ Thanks! ^
Yeah, they're saying a lot of the evidence is inconclusive, but I hardly believe that. If the hormones make the animals bigger, then the hormones will make the people who eat the animals bigger. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise.
I find that section about girls hitting puberty too early because of hormones rather disturbing. Could you imagine that - an eight-year-old girl having the physical capacity to have a child of her own? And imagine the feeling of absolute confusion, maybe even fear, that the girl gets when she finds that first spot of blood on her underwear. I don't think I even knew that menstruation existed at the age of eight. They're probably on the same page.
One of the links also described the problems that farmers have been having with sick animals. It is proven that hormone-treated animals are more susceptible to bacterial infection. We're eating animals that have been fed antibiotics probably their entire lives. It's no wonder why people today are sicker than ever. We're allowing harmful bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics because we keep eating small doses of them at dinner every night. Soon enough, the simplest bacterial infection will require some of the strongest antibiotics that modern medicine can turn out.
Also, I just saw this link beside some George Carlin.
Fox News Suppresses rBGH Milk Expose
Oh hell yea, I just realized that that video is a clip from The Corporation, which was a movie I remember thinking was informative and interesting. I wonder if there's a full length copy online...
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