The FDA may have declared cloned meat to be safe, but that predictably hasn’t ended debate over whether it should be sold at all and how it should be labeled if it is.
And those who aren’t happy with the idea of eating beef or drinking milk from cloned animals probably won’t like this story, either. The Washington Post this week explored the question of whether cloned meat could be labeled as organic, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012800862.html.
Key quote: “Over my dead body,” said Margaret Mellon, director of the food and environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, reacting to the possibility that clones could be labeled as organic.
At least one U.S. senator — from Maryland — already is on the record opposing the FDA’s proposed approval of cloned meat, http://www.wmdt.com/topstory/displaystory.asp?id=4243.
Maryland also is home to the story of a cloned cattle custody battle, http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=96780. The financially strapped owner of two cloned dairy cows faces eviction in a family business dispute. And, with the industry’s voluntary ban on cloned meat still in effect, the FDA’s recent decision won’t help him, he said, http://www.hpj.com/archives/2007/jan07/jan8/FDAcloningdecisionnohelptof.cfm.
The latest development in his story is the most interesting, however. The farmer said this week that one of the two clones has died and the other could be auctioned off next week and slaughtered into meat, http://www.wmdt.com/wires/displaystory.asp?id=58207709 despite the voluntary ban on cloned beef.
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