Comments on Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human: Should Cloned Animal Products be Labeled?

Well, cloned human products should also be labelle...

2007-07-12T10:10:00.000-07:00

Well, cloned human products should also be labelled.

(for the record, I'd eat cloned meat. I don't see what the big deal would be. I've eaten worse, like hot dogs.)

This from an intrepid reader:"I agree that food pr...

2007-07-11T17:02:00.000-07:00

This from an intrepid reader:
"I agree that food products from cloned animals and their offspring should be labeled. But what really fascinates me about the issue is that Americans are so frightened of eating cloned meat, but at the same time are screaming for therapeutic cloning so that they can inject themsleves with cloned stem cells.

Hmm..let me think. Drinking milk from a cloned cow or injecting myself with my dead clone's embryonic stem cells? I say, "Pass the Oreos!" "

"Should Cloned Animal Products be Labeled?"Yes.

2007-07-11T12:37:00.000-07:00

"Should Cloned Animal Products be Labeled?"

Yes.

And then eat a GMO tomato with peanut allergens in...

2007-07-11T12:15:00.000-07:00

And then eat a GMO tomato with peanut allergens in it, or fish-derived anti-freeze proteins? Oh, and that organic produce you think doesn't include this stuff? Well, one day a cloud of pollen from a GMO field blew over the hill and... ;-)

You folks sure you still don't want to go veggie? ...

2007-07-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

You folks sure you still don't want to go veggie? [bats eyelashes]

These labels are a very important thing.We can't t...

2007-07-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

These labels are a very important thing.

We can't think of any reason why eating this meat would be bad for you, but neither did those who started using rBST on their cows. Yet my 18 month old daughter started developing breast tissue until our Doctor told us to switch to non-treated cows. After the switch, no more growth.

These things are not obvious from the beginning and it is simply fair for the public to know what they are consuming.

I can understand the animal-cloner's position. It...

2007-07-11T07:36:00.000-07:00

I can understand the animal-cloner's position. Its sort of like the reason why you get an MRI rather than an NMR (which is the actual acronym for the technique - "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance"), or buying irradiated meat.

There is a lot of misunderstanding amongst the public regarding scientific methodology and terminology used to make consumer products and services. People would be frightened off from putting their head into something that is "nuclear" or eating meat with a label that makes the product seem like its radioactive. I see no reason why cloned meat would be less safe to eat than that of sexually reproduced animals.

Almost all vegetation consumed by the public is cloned (people have been cloning vegetables since the dawn of civilization!); I wonder what the public would think if there were labels on cloned vegetables?

Its still a tough question, but at least one could put an "organic" label on a product that is not cloned.