FDA Says Cloned Animals Safe As Food

January 15, 2008 By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- Meat and milk from cloned animals is as safe as that from their counterparts bred the old-fashioned way, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday - but sales still won't begin right away.



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  • Nikola - Jan 15, 2008
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    FDA: Cloned Animals Safe for Consumption - Just like Vioxx.
  • zbarlici - Jan 15, 2008
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    Is it not the FDA that accepted the idea that if fish can expel certain chemicals out of their body, then so can we, humans, therefore theose chemicals are non-toxic to us. How stupid is that, meanwhile so many food additive chemicals build up in our bodies to the point of toxicity!
  • zbarlici - Jan 15, 2008
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    take the freaking hormones out of our food! Our life span is shoretened because of it... Freaking 9 yr old girls developing and menstruating, waaaaay before their time. Take that S_ _ T out of our food, no hormonal food for anything that is to be consumed by humans.
  • brant - Jan 15, 2008
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    yeah right, you eat em....
  • zbarlici - Jan 16, 2008
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    Vioxx contributed to 27,785 heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths between 1999 and 2003

    ...so i stand by my comments.
  • gopher65 - Jan 16, 2008
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    I'd much rather eat a cloned chicken breast than a "real" chicken that's been fed so many growth hormones that it tastes like vix vapour rub.
  • zbarlici - Jan 16, 2008
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    I'd much rather eat a cloned chicken breast than a "real" chicken that's been fed so many growth hormones that it tastes like vix vapour rub.


    Yeah but more likely than not your cloned chicken will not only be cloned but also beefed up on the hormones as well

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