Cloned Beef on your supermarket's shelves
hemol
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Hey folks, a coworker told me yesterday that the FDA just gave cloned meats the go-ahead. Some brief internet research confirmed it. Apparently there will be no indication that the meat you are buying is from a cloned animal. Get educated on what you're buying.
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Safeway/Albertson's/Kroger however, they will sell you anything. Also, NEVER buy meats from a wal-mart or k-mart grocery store!
Shit, back in the day, Food Lion (NC/SC, not sure if they have them elsewhere) were caught repackaging expired meat. Nasty!
Reading the linked discussion is helpful and informative
He seems to think it's just a technological advancement, made a comparison to horse buggies -> cars
He also said that people who want cheap food should not tell the producers how to make it (??!!)
This science is still new so it is reasonable for people to be concerned about what they eat. I remember seeing cloned rats getting unnaturally large.
I'm getting damn sick and tired of you "informationalists" always insisting that people "read" and "learn" about what they're discussing before forming an opinion on it. This is America, damn it. I have the right to be wholly ignorant and shout that ignorance on the interweb, and to a lesser extent, from the mountaintops.
Can we get a "By all means, spout off about something you know not" graemlin already?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/01/15/DI2008011502270.html
That's what I read.
The world is a complicated place already...it seems like it's getting more complicated by the day. Maybe it's just me.
Talking about "non-cloned beef" can be a luxury item! The fuck outta here with that bullshit.
He's right.
That's where the problem lies. You cant have high production values and expect cheap meat.
Raising an Organic animal isnt "cheap", even though it should be eventually once muthafucka change the farming game and thier mentality.
I don't think you necessarilly have to read an article on this specific subject (cloned beef) to be uncomfortable with eating food produced with GMOs.
I, personally, would rather eat naturally raised beef. Is it wrong to be weary of food that comes from a laboratory? Or do you need a PhD in food science to be able to have that opinion?
Yeah, maybe I didn't quite word it right, but I meant to convey that his statement is dangerous. There is often a high cost for cheap food.
Nah, I actually agree with your leanings. I was obliquely remarking on the fact that Johnny's simple suggestion to read up on one's read ups seems out of place on the interweb, which itself is a ridiculous and sad state of affairs.
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and what the hell is cloned meat? meat from cloned cows? which idiot would clone cows for the meat??? do you people even know what cloning is? can us farmers clone cows on their farms? what's the hell??? what for?