AlterNet: Cloned Meat May Already Have Invaded Our Food Supply, Posing Alarming Health Risks

[marmar]

It's just a matter of time before we are eating clones, if we are not eating them now.

When Canadian agricultural leaders asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week after a scandal about unlabeled clone products in Europe if "cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply," he said, "I can't say today that I can answer your question in an affirmative or negative way. I don’t know."

And when AlterNet asked the USDA this week if cloned products are already in the food supply, a spokesman said the department was "not aware of an instance where product from an animal clone has entered the food supply" thanks to a "voluntary moratorium"-- but that offspring of clones, at the heart of the Europe scandal," are not clones and are therefore not included" in the voluntary moratorium.

Sounds like Europe is not the only place eating milk and meat from unlabeled clone offspring. In fact, the BBC, UK newspapers and even a US grocer all report that US consumers are digging into clone food, whether or not they know it.

Like bovine growth hormone and Roundup Ready crops, the government says clone products are so safe they don't need to be labeled. But the 2008 FDA report (PDF), Animal Cloning: A Risk Assessment and a report from the European Food Safety Authority released at the same time, raise questions about the health of cloned animals, the safety of their milk and meat and even the soundness of the clone process itself. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/food/147878/cloned_meat_may_already_have_invaded_our_food_supply%2C_posing_alarming_health_risks/

[RC]

1. Cloned or Genetically altered?

The label says Cloned. The story reads Genetically Altered? Which is it? They are not the same.

[Demeter]

2. ...Send in the Clones, there Ought to be Clones....

Don't Bother, They're Here.


With apologies to Stephen Sondheim.