Why I Will Not Be Eating Cloned Meat

One of the things that always concerned me about the food supply in America is for all the advances in preservation the public is never fully aware of what the FDA has approved safe for human consumption.  The conspiracy theorist in me would not be surprised with anything that went wrong as a result of eating cloned beef.  Wasn’t the Mad cow scare with Oprah and the Texas cattleman enough?

I stopped eating beef years ago as part of a weight loss regime.  Today beef tears my stomach up to the point that I just avoid it except on rare occasions to have a burger or steak when at a restaurant or cookout.  Considering that as of 2006 28 billion pounds of beef was consumed in the United States I understand why cloning was explored, but also taking into account there is no way to know what side effects will manifest as a result of engineered meat products.

Those of us that are over 40 remember the test tube babies of the 70s and the talk that one of the individuals a male was actually placed among us to see how he would do.  As of today if he survived then he would be in his 30s.  Just like I wondered about the children of a man that was raised under laBratory conditions I wonder about the long term effects of meat from cattle that was engineered under monitored conditions.

Most of the time when man messes with nature the fight back is not pretty.  For example the Africanized bumble bee.  The people who have died in the last 25 years and their relatives would probably say that man messing with nature in this manner will just lead to trouble.  Of course since the FDA has said they will not label cloned meat as being different from meat that is already on the shelves there will only be one way to tell it from what we already consume and that is price.  I guarantee that cloned meat originally will be more expensive than meat already in store cases.

Come to think of it its possible that we are already drinking cloned milk.  A gallon of milk at Kroger as of last week was almost 4 dollars.  How do we know that it did not come from cloned animals?  The truth is we have no clue.  We are just going by what the FDA and the rest of the government is telling us is safe.  I don’t know about anyone else but I give cloned meat thumbs down which means I will not knowingly purchase or eat meat that was raise under lab conditions.