Would you buy/eat meat from cloned animals?

32% (396 votes)
Yes
53% (642 votes)
No
15% (181 votes)
Maybe, but... (explain in a comment)
Total votes: 1219

Your Comments, Thoughts, Questions, Ideas

Anonymous says:

i think eating some thing cloned is in fact a new idea but a weird one. Would it have the nutritional valu regular food has ?And is it safe? These are questions yet to be answered. I hope they are soon...

posted on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 3:05pm
Anonymous says:

I believe it is unsafe to eat cloned meat. In the New Testament of the Bible, it says all animals are clean and therefore available to eat because they are made from God. Cloned animals are not made from God and therefore are not deemed cleaned. I feel that the meat should be labeled so the consumer's RIGHT to make their own CHOICE is not taken away from them.

posted on Thu, 01/11/2007 - 11:08am
Anonymous says:

WELLL IF YOU MUST KNOW WE eat vegetables and they are not made from god......wabufffffffffffffffet....we plant vegetables ..... has the world died because we eat vegetables what will happen to the vegetarians........next time dont judge meat it has never lied to me. EVERYTHInG IS mADE FROM GOD .............YAah oh and thats fo true

posted on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 4:42pm
Anonymous says:

i belive you are completly right they are unsafe to eat. Not onlt this but if you think about it there must be something wrong with the genetic make up of this animal so the cannot be sane. So i believe that it is wrong God createdd animals to reproduce themselves and it has been going fine for thousands of years and they havent needed the help of any scientists so why do we need thenm now? This is a question that scientists will and cannot answer.

posted on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 10:29am
<em>Joe</em>'s picture
Joe says:

You should check out Thor's article to get some more background.

posted on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 11:19am
th1nkab0ut1tf0lkz says:

I totally agree with you! How many times has the FDA said something was safe and we find out years later that isn't the case. Think breast implants, more drugs than I can remember and how many years were smokers led to believe cigarettes were harmless? And I and everybody who I know feels that if meat is on the market from the offspring of cloned animals, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT IT IS LABELED AS SUCH. This is still AMERICA and consumers should have the RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHETHER or not they WANT TO EAT it.

posted on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 10:53pm
Francis says:

I agree with you th1nkab0ut1tf0lkz, The USDA has not approved it and the FDA has. I read this article on Jan. 16, 2008 and was appaulded about it.

We have infringed upon. We should have the right to know what we are consuming. Like some of the meds. I took premarin for 10 years only to find out that it was horse urine. I did not know! I immediately stopped taking it. I know that there are others who are on it but do not have any idea that this is what it is. I suffer with my stomach now and wander if it is related to the nausea that I have. I found out watching a report on television about it.

posted on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 10:09pm
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

So far, scientists say that there are no detectable differences between the meat of regular animals and cloned animals. So, yes, cloned meat has all the nutritional value that regular food has.

Is it safe? Well, the FDA says yes. Obviously, there are a lot of other people on this forum who think otherwise. And there are always fears--legitimate or not--about new technologies, especially when they involve food. Look at the controversy surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs), for example...

posted on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 11:44am
Anonymous says:

Clonned animals age prematurely and are subject to more health problems earlier than non-clonned animals.
Eating clonned animals is not a good idea. Not revealling that you are selling clonned animals is morally reprehensible as the public should be informed on the packaging label so that they can make intelligent decisions.

posted on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 10:15am
sondra says:

how could they have approvedin 2007? it's still 2006! december30 to be exact

posted on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 4:29pm
<em>bryan kennedy</em>'s picture

Yep, it was 2006. Sorry, I made typo and have fixed it now.

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 10:07am
andrea says:

it would just be so gross to eat meat from a cloned animal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
andrea

posted on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 4:50pm
smarty pants says:

no that would be great

posted on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 4:34pm
Anonymous says:

No way!

posted on Tue, 01/09/2007 - 10:47am
Jesse roth says:

i don't know it depends on the animal???????

posted on Sat, 01/06/2007 - 4:57pm
Anonymous says:

Why would you feel it gross to eat from a cloned animal?

posted on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 4:38pm
Anonymous says:

i think that is discusting. in the old ways our lands were once filled with enough meat but if white settlers would of learned not to be so sellfish idiots wouldnt have to clone to make prefab meat.

posted on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 5:13pm
Anonymous says:

Yes - in a moment. The meat is genetically identical to the other and as such, it wouldn't bother me.

posted on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 7:24pm
Anonymous says:

NO!! that is kinda gross and very un natural!

posted on Sat, 12/30/2006 - 8:04pm
Anonymous says:

if I am starving, then yes

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 11:03am
Anonymous says:

yah i totally agree with this thing cuz its soo not fair when people hve to starve themslef

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 3:19pm
Anonymous says:

i would

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 11:07am
Anonymous says:

God made animals with the ability to reproduce themselves. Why does man think he needs to interfere?

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 12:57pm
Anonymous says:

No it might have dieses or like mad cow diese and other stuff

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 2:23pm
Anonymous says:

i think that though it sounds very very very very disgusting, i think there wouldn't be any difference. if the label on the meat products didn't mention that it was cloned meat, you would think it was normal meat.

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 2:36pm
Anonymous says:

Because he wants a little more control over something new each and everyday.

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 3:40pm
Anonymous says:

it's really just a mathematical truth; the natural reproduction of animals is just not sufficient to support the growth of the human race in the manner it is accustomed (burgers, lamb, fish, etc.) man interferes" in natural world all of the time, in thousands of ways; it may also be God's will. Judge not, lest ye be judged

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 4:29pm
Anonymous says:

I would rather eat a cloned animal than die...

posted on Sun, 12/31/2006 - 5:08pm
Anonymous says:

It doesn't sound any worse than the stuff they already put in our food.

posted on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 3:05pm
Anonymous1 says:

The issue here seems to be not whether cloned meat is edible, but the cloning itself. A clone of, for instance, a cow, would be genetically identical to the original animal, so the meat would be no different. The moral issues are whether reproductive cloning of any organism is ethical, and would cloning animals to eat them be an insult to nature? After all, such a practice could set a precedent for more radical techniques, such as genetic manipulation, which could have unforseen side effects, as it already does in crops, and if just one person dies of an allergic reaction to a genetically modified protein, that's one person too many.

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 12:23pm
<em>bryan kennedy</em>'s picture

But what if these modification allow for more hungry people around the world to be fed with less environmental damage. I'm not saying this is a certainty but I don't object to "weird/unnatural" food if it help hungry people.

Although, if you are interested in this you might check out Margaret Atwood's recent book, Oryx and Crake. It is a pretty cool dystopian near future look at Frankenfood taken to the extreme.

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 12:40pm
Murray R. Wilde says:

Cloned food will feed the hungry? Please, I nearly fell off my chair! Franken-scientists have been telling us for years that one of the benefits of GMO's was their ability to supply the starving with sustenance. Well, I guess you were duped on that one too because they certainly haven't shown any benefit as millions world-wide continue to die in ever increasing numbers. The only consequence of the proliferation of genetically-tampered food has been a greater incidence of negative impact to consumer's health. (i.e. allergic reactions to soy and a general increase in disease manifestation)

Cloning has nothing to do with a benevolent group of individuals with an idealistic quest. These are scientific madmen whose only purpose in life is to gain power and wealth, at the EXPENSE of public and animal health and safety.

I urge everyone who is appalled by this shameful practice by industry and the total disregard demonstrated for the health and welfare of the public by government, to contact the FDA and your elected representative and tell them so. Submission to the FDA can be done from the following website which includes a handy form.

www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY 6433

I chose to respond with my own comments printed below, which can be copied in full or in part by those who wish.

Food and Drug Administration

To Whom It May Concern:

I have modified the standard message on the form being forwarded from the Organics Consumers Association website as I feel a stronger message needs to be sent to those in authority at the FDA.

Unlike the OCA, I do not hold the belief that further testing or experimentation of the flawed science of cloning should continue. I also think it’s unconscionable that an organization mandated to protect the public would allow products from a "counterfeited" animal into the human food supply, with or without labeling.

It is my fervent belief that cloning is and will forever be a failed science. It has been demonstrated time and time again that any animal which man attempts to replicate, sickens and dies within a short period of time. You don’t need a Harvard degree to realize something is inherently wrong with this bizarre practice.

The so-called "experts" will never comprehend that a clone has no conscience and no soul and is imperfect because it is devoid of the one gene that man can never duplicate - the one that originates from our Creator's imprint.

Likely, most scientists involved in cloning and related frauds would scoff at the idea that a higher power had anything to do with the creation of this wondrous world we live in, and there inlies the rub.

The fact that multi-billions have already been squandered on genetics and associated research, with absolutely nothing of benefit to show for the general public, is a damning indictment of this fallacious profession.

The "hard" science dictates that cloning, genetics and stem-cell research are nothing more than pseudo-sciences that only benefit those with a vested interest.

The important question is then; does the FDA protect the interests of consumers or those of corporate entities? Are they on the side of the light, or the dark?

Every employee of the Food and Drug Administration who holds responsibility for supporting and facilitating the marketing of this "franken-food" must be held accountable for any negative effect to the public from the consumption of these deleterious products. The implications of ingesting cloned food may be short-term, long-term, or both, but undoubtedly there will be serious implications.

The FDA is opening up a Pandora's Box that needs to be shut, now and forever, or dire consequences will certainly result. It behooves the FDA to make the moral and ethical decision on such a monumental issue.

The alternative is to face the conviction that the organization and its affiliates are guilty, beyond a shadow of a doubt, of gross neglect for the safety and health and welfare of the public, and subject to any repercussions resulting from the same, legal or otherwise.

posted on Sun, 01/21/2007 - 6:43pm
Santiago says:

Is the cloning of animals practical? Can you really reconstruct the organic matter of a life-form? In 20 years marketers would be advertising their "real" non-cloned meat. Riots would form against the cloning of animals as it would be modifying the ecosystems which are so balenced in the world. If, say a million cloned chickens escaped, preditors would overeat, multiply, and eliminate the excess food scource. Most would die off. The chicken populations would again expand, thus sending ripples though numerous food chains.

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 12:42pm
catherine says:

i think that animals shouldn't be cloned in the first place. they know how to reproduce! for pete's sake! use sommmonn sense

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 3:50pm
Klohstav teh 3rd says:

I like meat. A lot. I don't care where it comes from. As long as my canines are ripping into fresh, bloody meat; it's all good to me!

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 5:09pm
Becky says:

recreating animals. uh I think that we would rather have cloned animals than nothing buttttt obviously we are not at a shortage of animals right now.No i think the animals stay pretty busy out there. You know how many animals I almost break my spleen tripping over them. PlENTY. Lets use SOMMMMON sense about this

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 5:15pm
Anonymous says:

IF YOU HAVE CLONED ANIMALS AND CAN NOT TAKE CARE OF THEM - WHY HAVE THEM OR ANY OTHER
CATTLE........LOOK AT THE GREG WILES SITUATION

posted on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 3:07pm
angie says:

DUh Let god rain all fires from heavin on you all for even thinking of cloning animals

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 5:23pm
Anonymous says:

There are a lot of cloned animals already walking around on this earth. Didn't god give us the know how of how to clone animals?

posted on Tue, 01/09/2007 - 5:50pm
Anonymous says:

CLonned meat might be bad for you. I dont really care for the flavor and texture of it

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 5:24pm
Aisling O'Neill says:

I think I need more evidence that it is safe to eat. If you clone a cow with mad cow diease it could cause death and pain to many and it could take many years to figure it out.

posted on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 5:29pm
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

Well, what you say is true.

However, there's no reason to think that cloned cows would be more likely to carry BSE ("mad cow disease"), and many reasons to think they might be less so.

I agree: I would like to see more discussion of the possible safety issues. On the other hand, we currently eat meat with artificial hormones and antibiotics, and we KNOW the health issues that may be associated with those.

I know that I wouldn't seek out cloned meat, but I don't think I'd pay extra to avoid it, either.

And right now, I'm much more worried about whether or not my produce isn't contaminated with E. coli or other pathogens than I am about the safety of cloned meat!

posted on Tue, 01/16/2007 - 11:04am
Jazz says:

Yes, I would. I think cloned meat would taste no different than regular meat, so why not?

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 10:25am
Anonymous says:

I don't think it is right to clone animals let alone eat them. I is digusting to think about eating any animal because they are innocent.

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 1:11pm
Anonymous says:

I don't think it is right to clone animals.

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 1:11pm
Anonymous says:

I believe that animals should not be cloned because it is just sick how you can do thtat to an animal.

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 1:14pm
Anonymous says:

We should not be afraid of science, we need to approach it from an intelligent perspective. Gain knowledge not fear.

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 1:22pm
dim says:

I think eating cloned animals sounds gross. But it might taste the same and the nutrition hopefully is similar. But, Ithink we shouldn't abuse our power of cloning or else something disaterious might happen.

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 1:35pm
Anonymous says:

meat is murder

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 3:26pm
Anonymous says:

wow... Can you believe this? Come on people.. Wake up! Why clone when we have enought animals to feed ourself. I think If we cloned animils then we are playing god. So science is a game of playing god? To me NOOOOOO..

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 3:33pm
Anonymous says:

Meat is good

posted on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 5:30pm
nitro the carnivore says:

no way. meh. eat the real stuff

posted on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 1:08pm
Anonymous says:

i guess to a certain piont it sounds like a interesting idea but kind of weird. because if you raised a really healthy animal and cloned it for better meat that would be reallly cool, but we don't know if the technology is reliable enough to fulfill that.

posted on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 8:47pm
Anonymous says:

I would but it would have to have been tested a lot first.

posted on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 3:52pm
dgo says:

Pigs, eg, have been bred tobe so similar in size, shape etc. that they might as well be cloned. Object is to get consistant maturity for butchering (10 months) and shape to allow robots to do the cutting etc.
that's what we are eating now! Baby-backed ribs anyone? D.O.

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posted on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 4:08pm
Anonymous says:

Yes. It would just be like eating twinned meat.

posted on Fri, 01/05/2007 - 8:49pm
Anonymous says:

I have never tried a cloned animal so I wouldn't know.

posted on Sat, 01/06/2007 - 11:11am
alexus says:

i dont think that i would eat any because its kinda nasty if you thinnk about it.

posted on Sat, 01/06/2007 - 12:22pm
a person who thinks this keyboard is annoying says:

I personally would not eat it just because of the fact that it is cloned. I like to eat meat, but if it is cloned, odds are it is missing nutrients and such things, so no I wouldn't. Then again, I am starting to become a vegitterean, so why should my opinion maatter?

Sincerely, Anonomys Writer

posted on Sun, 01/07/2007 - 11:51am
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

Cloned animals are genetic "twins" of the animals they're cloned from. There's no reason to believe that they'd be deficient in any nutrients.

posted on Tue, 01/16/2007 - 10:58am
Anonymous says:

There is no scientifically proven difference between the meat of a cloned animal and that of the animal which was cloned. This is not a religious issue or a moral one and I fail to understand why people feel the need to make it one. Eventually, we will need to clone many things in order to survive and sustain human life on this planet. So, yes, I would definitely eat meat from a cloned animal.

posted on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 3:27pm
Joe Buckets says:

If you clone a cow for instance, you will get double the meat. HOORAY!

posted on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 4:47pm
Anonymous says:

Who really cares if the meat is cloned or not? It's meat, people!! It doesn't make a difference. So, what does it really matter? You probably already eat cloned veggies. Would cloned meat be any different than regular meat? NO!!!!!!!!!!! It could probably make the meat cleaner, and that comment about mad cow disease, sorry,(you can't clone the disease, only the genes!!) If you take a perfectly good cow, and clone it, it would probably be another perfect cow. I vote with cloning all the way!! And, if u r a veggie eater, u have no say in this whatsoever!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sincerely,
11 year old girl

posted on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 7:41pm
Anonymous says:

I wouldn't eat cloned meat because I believe the onset of disease and aging would come on quicker in the animal. I understand that the meat that would be cloned would come from an animal who would seem to be healthy, but what if when they age they have health issues. Wouldn't these same health issues come on faster in a cloned animal? And what if we have meat that come from all the same genes and a new disease wipes out these animals because they all have the same genes. Survival of the fittest allows randomness in our DNA to allow us to survive various diseases. These animals wouldn't have the same chance of survival.

posted on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 3:13pm
Lisa says:

'Survival of the fittest allows randomness in our DNA to allow us to survive various diseases. These animals wouldn't have the same chance of survival."

Very good point!

And if there was an allergy derived from a cloned animal, due to the fact that there is as of now no requirements for labeling, there would be no way to track down the particular cow.

Have you read the case about a Maryland dairy farmer named Greg Wiles?

"The FDA action follows the recent news that the agency has refused to investigate health problems in animal clones on a U.S. dairy farm. Greg Wiles, whose Williamsport Maryland "Futuraland 2020"dairy was the first farm in the nation to have cloned cows, told FDA that one of his two cow clones was suffering from unexplained health problems. Wiles told Food Chemical News that the clone "just stopped growing...she just looks terrible," but says that when he reported the problems to FDA and other federal officials, he was "paddled around like a tennis ball from agency to agency."CFS has asked the Agriculture Department to intervene in the case to stop any sale and prohibit the slaughter of clones and their progeny for food." http://www.progress.org/2006/gene114.htm

"Mr. Wiles was the first to have a commercial clone on his dairy farm in Maryland. To date, he has been abiding by the FDA’s requested voluntary moratorium on placing milk and meat from cloned animals and their progeny into the food supply. As a result of a court case, a judge in Maryland District Court for Washington County may soon order that Mr. Wiles’ animals – including clones and their progeny – be sold to satisfy a judgment. A force sale of the animals would likely result in their slaughter for use in meat. Mr. Wiles is concerned about this possibility on at least two fronts. First, he believes that the forced sale of the cloned animals would result in placing milk and meat from cloned animals into the food supply before any government agency has fully evaluated its safety. Second, Mr. Wiles, who has experienced a number of health problems with his cloned animals, believes that the animals should not be put into the food supply and instead be evaluated as part of the risk assessment process use to determine whether or not milk and meat from cloned animals is safe. Over the last several years, Mr. Wiles has brought this matter to the attention of the government – meeting with FDA and USDA officials – but has been rebuffed in his attempts to have his cloned animals fully evaluated and used in research.

Upon hearing of the Wiles situation, today Center for Food Safety and Food and Water Watch sent the attached letter to the USDA FSIS asking the agency to prohibit any slaughter of clones and their progeny and intervene in the Wiles case to the extent necessary to prevent the sale of the cloned animals." http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/foodsafety/cloning/news-pending-cloned-animal-slaughter

Informative websites about this matter:

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/21/21clonedcows.html
http://pewagbiotech.org/newsroom/summaries/display.php3?NewsID=1036
http://www.progress.org/2006/gene114.htm
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/CloneRiskAssessment.htm
http://www.satansrapture.com/biomeat.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2003/nov/1/europe_meat_ban.htm
http://www.label-cloned-meat.information-place.net/index.php
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/316737199?ltl=1168813024


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/326647632
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=95&pst=831801&archival=
http://www.yelp.com/topic/yAPDCRQTZD4MKg90ozb-kg
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01541.html
http://www.myspace.com/label_cloned_meat
http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/24/cloning.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/10/cloning.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2007/jan/9/can-you-avoid-cloned-meats.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2002/feb/27/pope_cloning.htm
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/about/press/releases/approval-of-cloned-food-leaves-consumers-unprotected
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2521734,00.html

posted on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 11:56am
Anonymous says:

WHERE IS MR GREG WILES AT NOW - THE RUMOR IS HE IS BARELY ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THE CATTLE HE HAS. THERE ARE NO MORE CLONES - THERE ARE CALVES OF THE CLONES, BUT THEY THEMSELVES ARE NOT CLONES.

HE IS IN THE HOLE ------ AND NO ONE IS OFFERING TO GET HIM OUT .........

posted on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 3:05pm
Iknewyou says:

Lisa

Thank you so much for your information on cloning! I am doing an essay on this topic and you have been so helpful.

posted on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 7:36am
Anonymous says:

meat is meat

posted on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 4:26pm
Jaculine A. Fox says:

cloning animals means that you could clone the animals that go the best with my secret barbeque sauce!!!YUM SANDWICH!!!!

posted on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 4:35pm
Anonymous says:

Cloning in general is just wrong.

posted on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 10:33am
i despise this keyboard says:

Why not eat it? If the animals are truly similar (def. of clone) their meat would be exatly the same, we wouldnt be able to tell a difference.

posted on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 10:52am
Anonymous says:

I do not have enough information yet. When you look at hunger in the world, this perhaps could be a resource if it is proven to be safe and nutritious.

posted on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 11:31am
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

Hmmmm...

I don't think that the FDA is talking about "artificial meat"--where proteins are grown in a lab. (Here's a Buzz story on the technique.) Artificial meat certainly could someday be a resource to combat hunger, and it could help the environment, too. (Read the story to find out why.) But it sure doesn't sound tasty, does it?

Instead, I think they're saying that IF an animal is cloned for some other purpose--say it's been bred for some optimum trait, and now they want to preserve that trait--it can enter the foodstream once its "useful life" is over.

Yes, the decision also means that people could clone animals for food, but cloning is SO expensive that it doesn't make sense right now to clone animals only for food.

posted on Tue, 01/16/2007 - 10:55am
Anonymous says:

it depends what animal it is

posted on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 1:28pm
JackMicCrack says:

I might... I would need to know if everything, would be the same as normal products? I think it is a good idea overall though. I just hate how they clone.

posted on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 10:47am
Lisa says:

The FDA made a preliminary statement on Dec. 28, 2006 about approving cloned meat and milk into the food supply without labeling. The FDA plans to make a final decision after accepting comments from the public. The FDA has a petition/docket on their website that is accepting comments from the general public until 4/10/07, so act fast people! Below is the docket and website address where it can be found:

Docket Number & Title: 2006P-0415 - Petition Seeking Regulation of Cloned Animals
Comment Period End Date: 04/10/07

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/getDocketInfo.cfm?EC_DOCUMENT_ID=1269&SORT=STARTD&MAXROWS=15&START=31&CID=&AGENCY=FDA

posted on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 12:05pm
Ariana says:

I think that it should be labeled so the consumer can choose, as someone else said. However, I don't see cloned food ever hitting the shelves, as it is way more expensive to clone animals than to breed them.

posted on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 6:08pm
Anonymous says:

I disagree with the comment that we need cloned animals to be able to feed the hungry in the world. We already produce world wide the food we would need to feed all people on the earth world wide but we lack the ability to be able to divided our combined resources and food staples to be able to stop the famines and starvation we see in the world. If all governments on earth shared what they had there would be no one starving anymore but we don't. So cloning animals still won't help starving people because the governments cloning the animals still wont share the extra to help with worldwide starvation and we lack the resources to get the food there also. So cloning is mostly for scienctist to be the first ones to do it and not a cure all for global hunger.

posted on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 9:07am
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

I agree. Cloning will not help feed the hungry. (See post above about artificial meat, though...)

Cloning animals is FAR more expensive than breeding them, so I think it will be a long time before we find cloned animals in the foodstream in any significant numbers.

posted on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 11:24am
Beulah Momanyi says:

I would eat cloned meat if i had to and that was the last thing there was to eat

posted on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 11:50am
Anonymous says:

why would it matter if it was cloned or not? it still tastes the same! get over yourself!

posted on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 4:45pm
eat it.....just eat it.... says:

get over yourselves! wats wrong with u people! Id rather eat cloned meat than die!

posted on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 4:47pm
well, it relly depends on the..... says:

it depends on the situation if u were starving, than yes, if not, than ABSOULUTLLY NOT!!!!!!!!!!SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 4:50pm
diane says:

i wouldntbuyit or eat it because itjust not the same

posted on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 5:08pm
Anon says:

I think that cloned animals can really help impovershed nations around the world who are starving and whatnot. However, it will also have an economic effect on Ranchers and Farmers... And most of the time, when Americans have more things, it doesn't really affect other countries. We could introduce it to the poorer nations, but that would require an increase of education and highly-trained cloning-technicians.
So I suppose I'm a little confused.

posted on Tue, 01/23/2007 - 1:24am
Anonymous says:

i agree with the other guy. it's okay.

posted on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 3:01pm
Anonymous says:

no

posted on Fri, 03/09/2007 - 10:23am
Anonymous says:

i really dont know...part of me believes there is life beyond earth but part of is saying well if there was we probably would have seen something by now!!

posted on Fri, 03/09/2007 - 12:39pm
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Liza says:

A consumer group, the Center for Food Safety, alleged today that the FDA's approval process for cloned meat and milk was done too quickly, didn't involve enough stakeholders, and is scientifically flawed.

According to the Reuter's article:

"The consumer group urged FDA to issue a permanent ban on food or feed from cloned animals until the government conducts more safety testing on possible side-effects and addresses concerns over animal cruelty and ethical issues tied to the technology."

posted on Wed, 03/21/2007 - 12:06pm
Anonymous says:

Yes

posted on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 9:08am
Anonymous says:

Cloned meat... it wouldnt hurt the original animal would it? And i guess all the meat would be perfect, it would all look, taste and feel the same. But that dosent mean there would be more meat. You have to put the cloned foetus inside the animal so it grows etc. So basically, you would get perfect meat, but it would be more expensive, take just as long, and the process would be so difficult that there would be less of it out there. And i think most people would prefer to eat real meat than cloned.

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 12:09pm
brooke says:

i do not eat meat cuz i am an animal lover and i love all sorts and every kinds ugly or cute i love them no matter what

posted on Fri, 08/31/2007 - 8:12pm
Anonymous says:

It depends, maybe after a profound scientific study that would certified eating Cloned Meat ( Animal) is safe.

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posted on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 10:13pm
Marie says:

I recently had the chance to see the movie I am Legend. Anyone who thinks humans can improve on what God has created (or nature if you do not believe in God) needs to see the movie and then ask yourself if it is still a good idea to try to improve on what already is.

posted on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 11:34am
Anonymous says:

very well put!!!!! i like what you said!!!!!

posted on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 2:33pm
kasey says:

depends what it's original.........ummmmm never mind. of course not!!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 2:24pm
Anonymous says:

I probably wouldn't eat cloned meat. i mean, isn't the point of cloning to bring back endangered animals? If it is, what's the point of cloning them if you are just going to kill them!

posted on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 8:43pm
Janice says:

If they are not labeling this meat. Are they even going to tell us when it is on the market? I mean come on people stick up for your rights this is America. People should have a choice about what they eat. I would not put that garbage in my body. The government says alot of things keep in mind they are all human to, and humans make mistakes.

posted on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 8:57pm

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