NO! To Cloned Animals in Food Supply!
What's At Stake:
Animal cloning is a new technology with potentially severe risks for food safety. Defects in clones are common, and cloning scientists warn that even small imbalances in clones could lead to hidden food safety problems in clones' milk or meat. There are few studies on the risks of food from clones, and no long-term food safety studies have been done.
Further, the pregnancy complications in cloning cause unnecessary suffering for host mothers, and clones commonly develop with severe deformities and health problems, such as grossly oversized calves, enlarged tongues, squashed faces, intestinal blockages, immune deficiencies, diabetes, high rates of heart and lung damage, kidney failure and brain abnormalities.
Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans do not want food from animal clones and that they are opposed to cloning on moral or ethical grounds.
The Center for Food Safety has called on FDA to ban the use of clones in food production until the food safety and animal cruelty problems in cloning have been resolved, and until public discussions have addressed the troubling ethical issues that cloning brings. We also call on FDA and Congress, in the result that these pre-conditions can be met, to require mandatory labeling of food from animal clones.
SUPPORT Senator Mikulski and Specter’s amendment (#3524) to delay cloning until we know more.
Say NO to Food From Animal Clones!
In my opinion, if man has tampered with it, it is not natural as it was intended to for nourishment. Studies have shown its negative affects on our health!
Cruelty Free Companies
Wall Street Journal article
FDA’s Flawed Approach To Assessing The Safety Of Food From Animal Clones
American Anti-Vivisection Society
What are your thoughts on cloned animals in our food supply?
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Do You or Your Family Want to Eat Cloned Animals?
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Do You or Your Family Want to Eat Cloned Animals?
by daughternature on Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:49 pm
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Cloned?
by justsayKNOW on Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:45 pm
Follow the money... Big business getting bigger. I will help get the word out and hopefully the negative press will help expose this! ... and more importantly, STOP IT!
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Cloning Humans?
by justsayKNOW on Mon May 12, 2008 12:07 am
I know this thread is about food, but I wanted to share this article which deals with cloning. Thought it was important to make it known.
Technology for Cloning Babies!
Technology for Cloning Babies!
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Cloning Babies
by daughternature on Mon May 12, 2008 12:11 am
Great article! Thanks for sharing, we appreciate your efforts in posting this info and helping us spread awareness.
Keep your posts coming!
Have a productive day!
Keep your posts coming!
Have a productive day!
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Genetically Engineered Meat
by daughternature on Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:07 pm
Genetically engineered animals may be heading to your local supermarket faster than you think. Though creating animals in a lab sounds like science fiction, it’s happening right now: Genetically engineered super salmon, which grow twice as fast as normal farmed salmon, goats engineered with spider genes to produce silk in their milk, and pigs engineered with mouse and bacterial DNA to improve digestion.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently accepting public comments on its draft guidance for the commercialization of such GE animals, opening the way for grocery stores to sell food made from genetically engineered animals. And the agency is proposing that these products be sold to you without your knowledge.
The jury is still out on whether food from these animals is safe for humans or the environment. And the ethics of such changes have yet to be considered. In fact, FDA says the ethics of engineering animals for food production cannot even be considered in its decision-making!
FDA says they will conduct a safety review before these foods can be sold for human consumption. But consumers won’t know if they’re buying food from genetically engineered animals, because the agency is refusing to require labeling—robbing us of our right to know what’s in our food.
The FDA draft guidance would treat genetically engineered animals under its new animal drug provisions. While the new guidance would require a long-overdue review process, the proposed FDA rules are seriously flawed. While regulating genetically engineered animals through the more rigorous “new animal drug” provisions is good news—meaning each new GE animal would have to get FDA approval before going to market, like new drugs do—the secrecy inherent in our current drug approval process is bad news for consumers. In addition, FDA’s limited review will only be for efficiency of the GE process, the safety of the GE process on the animal, and will not require extensive testing of the foods derived from such animals. Moreover, the review will not cover environmental issues like impacts to wildlife or biodiversity.
Under this draft, the public cannot know if the review of a product met the highest scientific standards until after its approval, and then they cannot avoid the product in the marketplace because it is not labeled. The FDA feels it deserves the public’s trust, but refuses to give us the tools to verify that it is doing its job fairly and adequately.
What’s worse, FDA is not proposing actual regulations, but rather a non-binding “guidance” document that continues the anti-regulatory shift of risk from those producing genetically engineered animals and foods to those consuming them.
The public comment period is only open until November 18th – Tell FDA to ban the use of such animals for food. If any such animals are to be considered, FDA must require labeling of food products from all genetically engineered animals, an open, transparent, and participatory review process of any such genetically engineered animals, and include a meaningful consideration of the ethical implications and environmental impacts of genetically engineering animals.
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**PLEASE NOTE: All comments submitted to the agency will be made public by the agency on the regulations.gov website, so please be advised not to share any information you do not wish to be publicly posted, such as your street address or phone number. No email addresses will be sent or shared.
Due to the difficulty members have had in submitting comments via the agency website, we will collect your comments and submit them to the agency at the close of the comment period on November 18th.
Genetically Engineered Meat
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently accepting public comments on its draft guidance for the commercialization of such GE animals, opening the way for grocery stores to sell food made from genetically engineered animals. And the agency is proposing that these products be sold to you without your knowledge.
The jury is still out on whether food from these animals is safe for humans or the environment. And the ethics of such changes have yet to be considered. In fact, FDA says the ethics of engineering animals for food production cannot even be considered in its decision-making!
FDA says they will conduct a safety review before these foods can be sold for human consumption. But consumers won’t know if they’re buying food from genetically engineered animals, because the agency is refusing to require labeling—robbing us of our right to know what’s in our food.
The FDA draft guidance would treat genetically engineered animals under its new animal drug provisions. While the new guidance would require a long-overdue review process, the proposed FDA rules are seriously flawed. While regulating genetically engineered animals through the more rigorous “new animal drug” provisions is good news—meaning each new GE animal would have to get FDA approval before going to market, like new drugs do—the secrecy inherent in our current drug approval process is bad news for consumers. In addition, FDA’s limited review will only be for efficiency of the GE process, the safety of the GE process on the animal, and will not require extensive testing of the foods derived from such animals. Moreover, the review will not cover environmental issues like impacts to wildlife or biodiversity.
Under this draft, the public cannot know if the review of a product met the highest scientific standards until after its approval, and then they cannot avoid the product in the marketplace because it is not labeled. The FDA feels it deserves the public’s trust, but refuses to give us the tools to verify that it is doing its job fairly and adequately.
What’s worse, FDA is not proposing actual regulations, but rather a non-binding “guidance” document that continues the anti-regulatory shift of risk from those producing genetically engineered animals and foods to those consuming them.
The public comment period is only open until November 18th – Tell FDA to ban the use of such animals for food. If any such animals are to be considered, FDA must require labeling of food products from all genetically engineered animals, an open, transparent, and participatory review process of any such genetically engineered animals, and include a meaningful consideration of the ethical implications and environmental impacts of genetically engineering animals.
Talking Points
**PLEASE NOTE: All comments submitted to the agency will be made public by the agency on the regulations.gov website, so please be advised not to share any information you do not wish to be publicly posted, such as your street address or phone number. No email addresses will be sent or shared.
Due to the difficulty members have had in submitting comments via the agency website, we will collect your comments and submit them to the agency at the close of the comment period on November 18th.
Genetically Engineered Meat
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