Not Milk?
While grabbing a muffin at NCC today I happened across a flyer from a group called The Center for Food Safety concerning products made from and by cloned animals. I was a little more than shocked – and yet, not really – to read that the FDA is in the process of allowing the use of cloned animals in commerical products.
The FDA is taking public input on the matter till April 4th. After checking out a handful of the sources provided by CFS fact sheet it seemed smart to send a letter to the FDA (one of those auto-activist deals) to register my concern. The issues of genetical engineering are highly volitaile, but the CFS’ contentions about the dubious safety of these practices for animals and humans seem enough to advocate the postponement of commerical use.
Once the safety of the animal, consumer – and hey, why not the ecosystem too?! – are no longer lingering question marks it maybe be practical to allow cloning in the future, but I have low expectations that such developments will be implemented in a way that is holistically sustainable. I’ll still be eating my organic food thank you very much.