January 22, 2008
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Our future cloned food supply
TidBitz posted this: Please explain in length any opinions you may have on eating cloned animal. I am against it, simply because it defies nature and the proper order of things. Manipulating science and nature for personal gain seems so wrong, and I feel that even though I dont know..there has to be some kind of karmic hooba jiggy that iwll come to us later and we will regret it. But tat …that is not a valid reason.
What do you think? I said to my hubby, FDA approved cloned meat for consumption, then my husband….says, “Why not?” Ugh. he doesnt eat veggies either. And he loves soda and isnt green. But he is always so compromising and willing to listen. I think I am the only person he ever encountered with so many opinions! And mine are pretty strong. He eats food for pleasure. He enjoys life for what it is, not for what is behind thos or that. He doenst questions everything, but he isnt a sheep following the rest of the herd (thank goodness!)
Anyway…please tell me what you think about eating cloned animals.
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No, I wouldn’t eat cloned or genetically altered meat. For one thing, cloning doesn’t mean a perfect duplicate, no matter that the word implies it. There are imperfection in the copy which cause the animal to die sooner and have a low quality of life. Though some might argue that it’s okay since the animal will soon be eaten anyway, I still think all living creatures have a right to a certain quality of life, especially if it is going to be food. I will only eat free range animals when I do eat meat (fish or fowl), which is about once a week or less.
They say you are what you eat, so I would rather not eat an unnatural animal that was force-grown, fed on who-knows-what chemicals, and basically mass produced like an article of clothing or a plastic spoon. It’s not just that the meat would be “soulless,” but that the potential for the animal or meat to suffer and for us to consume that suffering is too great. I don’t know for sure, but it seems to me that if you allow a creature to suffer excessively for you before you eat it, maybe that’s not so good for your karma. Of course, I’m an empath so eating meat for me is problematic to begin with. If I didn’t live with a bunch of carnivores, I’d probably stop altogether.
Imperfect duplicates and genetic alterations can also have unforseen consequences when mutations in the proteins occur. For instance, Mad Cow disease is caused by a mutated protein called a prion which cannot be destoyed by cooking. So what if cloning created an even more virulent kind of prion or some other mutation that no one knew about until it was too late. If cloned meat became a common practice and the USDA’s standards on checking remained as low as they are, it would be a disaster. Anyone who wasn’t initially cut down by the mutated meat would probably starve for lack of non-genetically altered food.
Bad enough the cloned foods, but the genetically altered stuff is even worse and under the guidelines of the USDA, they don’t even have to tell us about it. I’ve heard that they’d put human DNA in pigs, and I forget what kind of animal they mixed with a tomato, but who would want to eat stuff like that? They don’t even know what effect the altering will have on the genetic structure of the plants or animals, but they’ve already had some “leakage” from altered plants in test patches outdoors (in Britain). One theory is that eventually altered plants and animals will be inedible to us because of new forms of protein and therefore only cloned matter will be safe for consumption.
January 22nd
St. Vincent is a one of a number of Christianized forms of Apollo. St. Vincent’s day is important to the wine industry as he is considered the Patron Saint of wine growers. It is said, If the weather is fine, you’ll enjoy the wine! According to grape lore, if the weather is good on this day, the crops will be good this year.
If the sun his beams display,
Be sure to mark his transient beam,
Which through the window sheds a gleam;
For ’tis a token bright and clear,
Of prosperous weather all the year.The Day of making way for Khnum occurs on the 8th day of Pamenot in the Egyptian calendar.
This is the birthday of Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1526).
Comments (2)
my question is why in the heck would someone clone a tomato and any animal together? are they looking for a walking mooing tomato?? i mean what’s with that? i never knew about the mutant gene in mad cow disease not being destroyed during cooking. i didn’t know it was a mutant gene at all. i thought it was caused by cow eating cow…
yep, I definitely can say that I would not eat a cloned animal- because I would not eat any animal. & although I take that position because of the actual animals, meat is also bad for your body. it’s responsible for many a heart attack.
btw, what’s the “day for making way for khnum”? I’m not familiar with egyptian traditions.
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