Back in the news: Cloning
Sep 21, 2008 farming, general food, groceries
With cloned animals once again becoming a hot topic in the news, the FDA and food researchers continue to race towards the finding of a way to introduce them into our food supply. Those in opposition to this occurring are up in arms over one particular point:
Manufacturers will be required to label food as coming from a genetically engineered animal only if the end product is different from its non-engineered counterpart.
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Which raises the question: Will people care even when they are labeled?
I think the FDA could stop the protests of people that want all cloned foods to be labeled as such and overcome it with a marketing campaign that convinces everyone it’s just dandy. One need only look at other products, like cigarettes and alcohol, to see that regardless of what you might slap on a label, if they like the product, people will continue to consume regardless.
Americans are generally proud of their cheap food, and if they can get those Big Mac prices even lower, or keep them the same as prices soar, as long as it tastes as they expected it to, they will continue to buy.
What do you think?
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September 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Why is cloned meat necessarily a bad thing? Seriously.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I could not agree with you more, as far as food is concerned, in America, as long as it looks good, well, hell, it doesn’t even have to look good, but as long as it tastes the way we want it to, people will pay for it, no matter where it comes from….I’m not sure we should clone animals just to clone them, but if it came down to it, where that was our only option, farmers didn’t have livestock, etc….then I’d say go for it, but hey, theres a lot more worrisome things in our world.