Cloned Animals: Healthy for Consumption?
16 January 2008 08:30 AM Filed in: Health
By Kat Vaughan
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently declared that cloned animals and their offspring, such as cows, goats, and pigs, are safe to enter into the food supply chain. In addition, the FDA has not made such labeling of products mandatory, even though it has been documented that cloned animals have a greater tendency of birth defects. Therefore, I can't help to wonder, along with immediate health implications, if the consumption of byproducts from cloned animals could result in birth defects and diseases in humans? I'm just not convinced that such byproducts from cloned animals are healthy. How can anyone be sure that eating meat and milk from cloned animals are safe at this point? I'll choose only organic foods from now on.
Links:
NPR podcast: FDA Finds Meat, Milk from Clones Safe to Eat
NPR podcast: How Safe is Cloned Meat
US Food and Administration: CVM and Animal Cloning
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently declared that cloned animals and their offspring, such as cows, goats, and pigs, are safe to enter into the food supply chain. In addition, the FDA has not made such labeling of products mandatory, even though it has been documented that cloned animals have a greater tendency of birth defects. Therefore, I can't help to wonder, along with immediate health implications, if the consumption of byproducts from cloned animals could result in birth defects and diseases in humans? I'm just not convinced that such byproducts from cloned animals are healthy. How can anyone be sure that eating meat and milk from cloned animals are safe at this point? I'll choose only organic foods from now on.
Links:
NPR podcast: FDA Finds Meat, Milk from Clones Safe to Eat
NPR podcast: How Safe is Cloned Meat
US Food and Administration: CVM and Animal Cloning
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