Amen, Sistah!

ditto

Coned cows! Who woulda thunk? And they just released a new study about how much methane cows produce and global warming. You think the clones have any less methane? I may have to become a vegetarian yet!
Tally HO!

Heck, they cloned a CAT! Like there's a shortage of cats!!!Why don't they put that money into homeless animals? How about homeless people? How about people who are hungry? How about reestablishing middle America.......Jac, you got me on a roll! PJ

Cloned cattle sounds really icky. But, I canÂt think of a single reason why it wouldnÂt result in better quality beef. ItÂs not like the cattle will be genetically altered. In fact, it would be just the opposite with its ÂsamenessÂ.

It should also result in better efficiency, and, theoretically, lower prices by producers. Beef ranchers would produce only males, and dairy producers only females because the sex of the cattle would already be determined.

With all the hormones, antibiotics, and who knows what else they're putting into farm animals these days, what difference does it make if the animals are cloned? And people don't understand why I'm vegetarian? I agree with Jac, the more food we raise ourselves, the better.

Sally

I have a bigger fear of contaminated vegetables than I do of beef or pork or poultry.

"It should also result in better efficiency, and, theoretically, lower prices by producers."

It'll result in lower production costs, but whaddya wanna bet those savings never get passed along to the consumer?

One thing that worries me is that the clones themselves tend to age more rapidly & to be more susceptible to cancer than non-clones, & I don't think anyone has any idea whether these problems are limited to the individual, like variations in coat pattern, or whether they survive to be passed on to someone who eats the clone, like DDT.

The food infected with salmonella or ecoli can be scary, but to me, it's not as scary as what's happening to the whole diet of Americans, including what they're doing to the animals people eat. There seem to be more and more problems like autism, asthma, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, it makes me wonder if all the tampering with the food is responsible.

Sally

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!

I'm firing off letters to Senators, Congressmen and the FDA to protest the failure to label the stuff "CLONED." May not do any good, but I hold dear the right to express my opinion...and outrage.

Suzi

I hold dear the "right to express" also Suzi - thank God and many veterans we still have it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You want to eat better.......write your congressmen about the restaurant industry. If it is healthy.....they will add something to it, to be absolutely certain it will NOT be healthy when you eat it!!! Of course, most of what they offer isn't healthy in the first place.