Cloned Meat and Dairy/FDA Really Needs To Rethink This One

OK, I had begun this blog as a way to retell my crazy life experiences in the food business, I never intended to touch on anything political but the FDA has my rapt attention and it should have yours.

If you follow the news, you saw today that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of cloned meat and its by-product, dairy, for human consumption. Its contention that the vitamin and mineral content are not different from its naturally occurring counterpart, are sophomoric and unmoving to me. Will someone in the medical community please remind me how long we have been able to produce cloned bio-specimens which have all their parts or a normal life cycle? I don't think it has been that long. I certainly don't think it has been long enough to be putting our children at risk. This new food supply could be in your market next week if no one makes a move to insist they at least discern it from the real deal. The FDA now knows its there. What are they going to do to insist the public has a choice?

I am not a scientist. I am a chef who has handled food all her grown life and spent far more time on food chain and farming issues than the average geneticists will ever care to. I know the difference between fresh, well handled food and the crap they pipe through the chains is definitely making a difference in the population. Ask any low income female who grew up on a steady diet of "Mac You Know Whos" if they think the rest of the population started their menses at 8 or 9. Go ahead, tell me it isn't the safe hormones pumped into the beef.

This country has more money than they know what to do with. It may not be distributed well, but there is certainly enough of it to avoid the necessity of eating food without knowing the real consequences. God help us if we intend to ship this stuff abroad. Imagine the media spin on that one in 10 years..................................

Pay attention please.

Kimberly