Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

John-in-Calif. — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:37:30 GMT

Ok, here is what I think....
Everyone should get on craigslist and post as many comments in the blogs as they can telling people to BOYCOTT CLONED MEAT and to tell their grocer that they will no longer buy meat from them unless the grocer sells meat that is labled..... Clone free meat

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

tyciol — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:15:19 GMT

Why on earth would cloned meats or milk from cloned animals be dangerous in the slightest? There have been many tests on cloned animals, so calling it untested is misleading. The main problem is, how exactly do you test its safety for humans without having humans eat it? You don't. Basically, if it is chemically identical to a normal animal, IT IS AS SAFE AS NORMAL MEAT.

Comparing it to frankenfoods is also wrong (although I think there's little risk with them too) because a clone isn't a blend of other animals, it's basically just an identical twin of an existing animal, which occurs all the time in nature anyway.

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

tatiana_3 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:42:05 GMT

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re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

karrus — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:19:57 GMT

Remember Dolly the cloned sheep? She had to be put down at age 6 instead of living a ripe old age of 11 or 12. She got sick and her organs failed. Thats what is happening to all the clones that they have produced. They only live half of their expected age and they are keeping them alive with massive amounts of antibiotics because they get so sick very early on in their lives.

I have e-mailed my senators and congressman about this and I urge everyone to do the same. What the fraud and drug administration gets away with is criminal. Just more proof to me that the name of the game is to get you sick and on drugs and then kill you.

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

Jertoon — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:20:43 GMT

It's disgusting. All the comments are horrific reactions on the part of consumers ! WHAT ABOUT THE ORGANISMS WHO WOULD BE FORCED TO SEE ENDLESS REPLICANTS ABOUT THEM ? ! ? THIS IS CRUELTY MULTIPLIED THOUSANDS OF TIMES OVER. AND MULTIPLIED EVERY SECOND OF EACH OF THESE UNFORTUNATE CREATURES LIVES. How pompous of an ass can any of you people be, thinking of yourselves only and of a few butchered clumps vaporizing in your stomach acid, of "science" and other conceptual and philosophic questions -- when these creatures would be forced into lives, cognizant lives, of freakish horror ! And many generations forward. DULL and HARMFUL. J in PA

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Boogafish — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:24:41 GMT

Stones (or minerals and elements) can be fused together to create some incredible things. But they it is no match for what was created from the mouth of eternal wisdom which created all things. I pray that science can someday see this.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Matt. 4:1-4).

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

ironpuppy92765 — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:37:18 GMT

A major concern that I have is that the cloned beef may breed with non-cloned beef, thus, causing the offsprings to have a mixed gene pool (i.e., become contaminated so to speak). This may lead to the contamination of the non-cloned beef industry such that we would not know if a beef is 100% non-cloned (i.e., no cloned beef in its family history).

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

Reikimon_203 — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:04:11 GMT

I wish there was a website link from Mercola that would allow us to send an email directly to the senators/congressman involved in the comittees that will be considering this, so we as a whole can register our disapproval with them in a quick and noticable fashion. This is a great forum opportunity as Vital Votes develops!

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Matilda_203 — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:54:58 GMT

My greater concern is that by the time a majority want to stop this- the infiltration will be so meshed that there will be no way to seperate the two again! Unfortunately, local sources don't often advertise and are therefore hard to find. Further, often they move or close. We have lost 2 businesses in the past year and are now searching for yet another! Is there a website or link to locate local sources?

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

Suzy_203 — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:23:46 GMT

This is the same idiocy as the GMO foods and other genetic tinkering that will eventually cripple us a nation. Other countries already condemn these practices with good reason. And the reason we don't is not only corporate greed but the illusion the corporate world seems to live in which is IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME (or my son, daughter, wife ,etc.). Why they don't think their loved ones will not get cancer or their beautiful little grandchildren will not be affected is the height of stupidity.The legal sytem is one of the few things the corporate world understands and we need to keep fighting for our right to not be HARMED by our food supply and our right to complete .disclosure on any and every product

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

EpiphaMe — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:52:35 GMT

Of course we can avoid cloned meat! The point of interest here is the question of HOW this process of infiltrating the common foodchain happens. Most reading your posst are probably stunned that they are already EATING this meat, however "up on it" they profess to be! We are all too busy and we know it!
Why are we, as consumers, held responsible for the, apparant, "already" in the food chain ISM? The above average, concerned person, can hardly keep up w/the threat of this n that, of which there are many. How has it happened that the infiltrators seem to have a more smoothly paved avenue than the average concerned citizen? Answer is self evident: numbers and where the money goes!

I thank you Dr Mercola for being so successful with your work... you have been a source of validation for my many yrs of personal research, and, as your numbers grow, please DO gloat that truth rises to the surface... number DO cause a vast difference! WE must be reminded of our utter power there......... your subscribers do support wellness and interest in the truth! Thank you. Have any job openings? lol - Diana

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

enzo — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:52:53 GMT

From what I gather from the news outlets, cloned meats are coming, like it or not. I am amazed that our "protectors" of food safety are pushing to declare something created in the lab (cloned animal meat and milk) safe, yet declare natural raw milk (nature's own whole food) unsafe for human consumption.

Indeed, why do they have to say anything at all? Wouldn't it be better for the FDA to simply state:

"Natural vs. cloned livestock may or may not be the same. The two appear to be identical, but we are not God, thus we don not know with absolute certainty. We, therefore, declare that cloned livestock products may be legally marketed to an informed public, and must be labeled accurately for consumer selection, or rejection as deemed through consumer choice."

Maybe they would approve raw milk if it were to come from a cloned cow whose system is full of steroids, antibiotics, BGH's and what-not. In fact, I'll bet if they added flouride to the cow's water supply they would create an even cooler monster. (..."Boowah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"...)

We must reject on principal cloned products through consumer choice. If they make it so we are denied our right to reject it by mixing it in with regular meat, then reject it all. The market will eventually cave under its loses. Even if it were true that there is virtually zero difference between cloned and natural beef, our right to discriminate about our food should remain paramount in importance.

I know how I'm going to handle this coming situation. Do you?

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

friendly curmudgeon — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:19:26 GMT

Maybe the FDA should consider cloning common sense. Or how about cloning Europe, which seems to be old worlds ahead of us when it comes to defending the human rights of its citizenry by banning genetically-modified foods, cloned meat and milk, and other Franken-dine items from the Mad Scientists' menus.

Why is it that Americans' health is so facilely and routinely thrown to the wolves? Why is it that our well beings are continually sacrificed on the altar of profit and corporate greed?

re: Can You Avoid Cloned Meats?

Russ Bianchi — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:48:08 GMT

There is a SIMPLE solution here for those who may wish to consider it...do not consume red meat from any source where you cannot be absolutely assured it is not cloned, modified, injected, inbred, mad -cowed/downered and ignored, manipulated, chemically or gentically altered, hormoned, feed lot fed, etc.

By the way, ORGANICS, as Dr. Mercola has pointed out before, is NO assurance of safety in meat or elsewhere. There are many self-appointed 'certifiers' out there, as well as retail created branding looking like it's 'organic', merely issuing certifcation for money, and never really doing any due diligence inspections, or rejections.

The meat supply is no better, and perhaps far worse, now, than it was when Upton Sinclair wrote his landmark exposure of the meat industry, entitled 'The Jungle', when one considers the volume abuses in meat supply today in America.

Profits have nothing to do with your health, in the consumption of red meat.