DNA means: "Do Not Ask."

Source: Washington Post
Tuesday, January 15, 2008; Page A01

I am so disturbed by the news that came out this week regarding the FDA's approval of cloned meat I'm seeing double. I am so baffled that somehow this seems normal and right to the FDA and lawmakers. That just because we can produce things in a lab then we should? I could go on and on about my frustrations on this but I'll let you read the article for yourself. In my mind though it confirms two important points. 1) if we as a country are consuming so much meat and milk that we need to start cloning animals to keep up with demand, why not start telling people to consume less and 2) I am now totally convinced that the only way for me to buy items such as meat, chicken, eggs, and milk, and to know exactly where it came from is straight from the farmer. Maybe the ray of hope in this is that people will be forced to become connected to their food supply again. Here is the beginning of the article from the Washington Post.

A long-awaited final report from the Food and Drug Administration concludes that foods from healthy cloned animals and their offspring are as safe as those from ordinary animals, effectively removing the last U.S. regulatory barrier to the marketing of meat and milk from cloned cattle, pigs and goats. Click here for the rest of the article.

“If you want government food, go to the supermarket and buy government food. But for those who want to have a relationship with their food, and the accountability that inherently comes with voluntarily and informatively opting out of the supermarket to go ask around, smell around, sniff around, look around and opt out of the government food system, they ought to have that right.”
Joel Salatin