USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market

[flashl]

Source: Washington Post

The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat.

Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, requested an ongoing "voluntary moratorium" to buy time for "an acceptance process" that Knight said consumers in the United States and abroad will need, "given the emotional nature of this issue."

Yet even as the two agencies sought a unified message -- that food from clones is safe for people but perhaps dangerous to U.S. markets and trade relations -- evidence surfaced suggesting that Americans and others are probably already eating meat from the offspring of clones.

Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies conceded yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a years-old request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending completion of the agency's safety report.

Washington Post

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011501555.html?hpid%3Dsec-nation&sub=AR

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It will be interesting to follow the request for "voluntary moratorium".

[Eurobabe]

1. But the FDA issued a statement yest. saying cloned foods

would be genetically superior to foods made the old-fashioned way. :shrug:

:sarcasm:

[flashl]

2. AFTER 35K comments from the public, likely in opposition. n/t

[tanyev]

3. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

[OhioChick]

4. As it Should. n/t

[Highway61]

5. They can't keep Mad Cow

off the market...yeah, right.

[fed-up]

6. wtf?? Americans and others are probably already eating meat from the offspring of clones nt

[flashl]

7. Yep. n/t

[JBoy]

8. Cloned meat.

"I want my Double Cheeseburger patties to be absofuckinlutely identical".

[Massacure]

9. Mr Right Arm, meet ( perhaps I should say meat :p ) Mr. Left Arm... n/t