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T_i_B

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Fri Oct-31-03 07:11 AM
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US 'will rule cloned food safe'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3229941.stm

Milk and meat from cloned animals will not need special approval or labelling for sale in the United States, the country's food regulator is likely to decide. Preliminary Food and Drug Administration findings suggest that products from healthy cloned animals are safe.

Cloning animals is currently too expensive to be practical for food production, but farmers could clone top-quality animals for breeding.

Offspring of those clones could then enter the food supply without labelling, the findings imply.

"If we consider materially the same as traditional foods, the role for the FDA would be minimal," the agency's Dr Stephen Sundlof told the New York Times.

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Mikimouse

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Fri Oct-31-03 07:20 AM
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1. These proclamations brought to you by the same people

who somehow (innocently, I am sure) neglected to let women know that tamoxifen's side effects included blindness and liver deterioration, as well as the fact that DES would probably cause some forms of cancer to increase in the children of women who used it during pregnancy. Oh yeah, I really trust anything they have to say. NOT! (sarcasm off)

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Fri Oct-31-03 07:20 AM
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2. and eating food with chemicals/antibotics in them is safe as well

Sure. Think I'll try my luck at the local health food store where I know where they get their food.

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BiggJawn

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Fri Oct-31-03 07:42 AM
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3. When will Wackehut and CCA start the Soylent Green research?

Fix the over-crowding in those new prisons....

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Paschall

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Fri Oct-31-03 07:49 AM
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4. Uh

<snip> But the FDA has found that cloned animals that survive infancy seem to be as healthy as other animals and that food from them should pose no risk. </snip>

I can't seem to find anything specifically on the web about it, but as I recall, most cloned mammals that survive infancy still develop severe medical problems in adulthood. I thought I'd heard about multiple cases of gross obesity, liver, heart, and kidney disease. I'm of the opinion these animals are not safe for human consumption.

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htuttle

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Fri Oct-31-03 08:29 AM
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5. That was what the University of Wisconsin discovered

Dolly, the cloned sheep, died very young due to congenital defects. Most of the cloning attempts before Dolly produced fetuses that also usually died of congenital defects.

I have no idea how or where the FDA 'found' that cloned animals are as healthy as animals bred naturally. Maybe they 'found' it on a memo from Rove.

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kayell

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Fri Oct-31-03 08:37 AM
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6. More faith based research

in this case faith in the big corporations. "We say its safe, so it must be safe."

"Offspring of those clones could then enter the food supply without labelling, the findings imply." This almost certainly means that in addition to not labeling this new frankenfood as such, it will be forbidden to label food as NOT from cloned animals.

I'ts a good time to be a vegetarian.

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Abaques

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Fri Oct-31-03 09:00 AM
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7. The problem is with the corporations, not the science....

Sure the technology has a ways to go before its fully up to specs, but the science behind it is good, and one day we will have no choice but to accept cloned and genetically modified food....

But the corporations who run things scare the crap out of me.

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Lindacooks

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Fri Oct-31-03 01:10 PM
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8. These are of the same ilk

as the wingnuts who don't want human cloning, even for replacement of body parts, because it's "interfering with nature". So which is it???

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T_i_B

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Sat Nov-01-03 08:30 AM
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9. That was my own thoughts.

One minuite cloning is bad, next it's good. I'll leave you lot to work out what they are playing at. :eyes:

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hang a left

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Sat Nov-01-03 09:02 AM
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11. As soon as they figure out a way for big profits from human

cloning, it will be OK too.

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camero

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Sat Nov-01-03 08:41 AM
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10. It sure is nice to know

That they are deeming food safe and not requiring labeling from Preliminary studies.

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camero

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Sat Nov-01-03 11:57 AM
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12. about GM meat and milk

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2207697.stm

New genes inserted into the DNA of GM animals will make proteins which are not normally present in the human diet, the report says.
These could produce allergic reactions, or even be poisonous.

The committee of scientists admits that data is scarce, particularly on animals cloned from adult tissue, like Dolly the sheep-the technique known as somatic nuclear transfer.

But it's safe anyway, just trust us, yeah right.

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Sat Nov-01-03 12:43 PM
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13. Dupe... locking

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