RE: [BULK] Re: Cloned meat

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Yes! It's really bothering me. I want to know where my food comes from.

I even just said that to one of my coworkers that I might be better off

becoming a vegetarian.

[bULK] Re: Cloned meat

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Jen,

Disturbed is an understatement!

This is enough reason (for me) to adopt a vegetarian

diet once again!

It makes me angry that the government can determine

(TWEAK) our food supply and then not allow the

individual to make a conscious choice on what he/she

decides to eat!

Dani N Little, MS, RD, CD

University of Washington Medical Center

Seattle, WA.

--- Jen Zingaro <jzingaro@...

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> Okay, so the FDA says that cloned meat is safe.

> I heard on the today show that this cloned meat

> doesn't need to be

> labeled.

>

> I could have sworn that I had heard some time ago

> that it needed to be

> labeled.

> This is troubling to me. Anyone else disturbed?

>

>

> Jen Zingaro RD

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Okay, I just read an article from WebMD. This is the part about

labeling.

Labeling Controversy

Mendelson says his group and others would now shift part of their focus

to requiring producers to label meat and milk from cloned parents.

" Labeling is going to be a big fight, " he says.

Batra, the cattlemen's association spokeswoman, says her industry would

oppose labels drawing a distinction between traditional meat and meat

from cloned sources.

" The science says there is no difference between the two, and it's

perfectly safe, and it doesn't need to be labeled, " she says.

Sundlof, the director of the FDA's Center of Food Safety and

Applied Nutrition, says the agency did not intend to label cloned

products on grocery store shelves. " The FDA does not require labeling if

there are no food safety issues.

-- The spokeswoman says that there's no difference, it's perfectly

safe, doesn't need to be labeled?? I think I have a right to know.

Besides, have they done any long term studies on effects of years of

consuming cloned foods??

[bULK] Re: Cloned meat

Importance: Low

Jen,

Disturbed is an understatement!

This is enough reason (for me) to adopt a vegetarian

diet once again!

It makes me angry that the government can determine

(TWEAK) our food supply and then not allow the

individual to make a conscious choice on what he/she

decides to eat!

Dani N Little, MS, RD, CD

University of Washington Medical Center

Seattle, WA.

--- Jen Zingaro <jzingaro@...

<mailto:jzingaro%40cnydc.com>

<mailto:jzingaro%40cnydc.com> > wrote:

> Okay, so the FDA says that cloned meat is safe.

> I heard on the today show that this cloned meat

> doesn't need to be

> labeled.

>

> I could have sworn that I had heard some time ago

> that it needed to be

> labeled.

> This is troubling to me. Anyone else disturbed?

>

>

> Jen Zingaro RD

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I am completely angry about this too and have written to the FDA, I would do

anything to actively try and get cloned meats labeled and if anyone has any

other suggestions let me know. I also want to encourage everyone disturbed by

this to write the FDA too. I don't know how they can tell us something is safe

when long term studies have not been concluded yet.

[bULK] Re: Cloned meat

Importance: Low

Jen,

Disturbed is an understatement!

This is enough reason (for me) to adopt a vegetarian

diet once again!

It makes me angry that the government can determine

(TWEAK) our food supply and then not allow the

individual to make a conscious choice on what he/she

decides to eat!

Dani N Little, MS, RD, CD

University of Washington Medical Center

Seattle, WA.

--- Jen Zingaro <jzingarocnydc (DOT) com

<mailto:jzingaro% 40cnydc.com>

<mailto:jzingaro% 40cnydc.com> > wrote:

> Okay, so the FDA says that cloned meat is safe.

> I heard on the today show that this cloned meat

> doesn't need to be

> labeled.

>

> I could have sworn that I had heard some time ago

> that it needed to be

> labeled.

> This is troubling to me. Anyone else disturbed?

>

>

> Jen Zingaro RD

> CNY Dialysis Center

> 910 Erie Blvd.

> Syracuse, NY 13210

> (315)410-8040

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[Guest guest]

What will become of organic meat and milk products? Will they avoid

using clones?

I hope so, that way I can have some control over what my family is

eating. *sigh*

[bULK] Re: Cloned meat

Importance: Low

Jen Zingaro wrote:

> Okay, so the FDA says that cloned meat is safe.

> I heard on the today show that this cloned meat doesn't need

to be

> labeled.

>

> I could have sworn that I had heard some time ago that it

needed to be

> labeled.

> This is troubling to me. Anyone else disturbed?

Deeply. But we may not be the only ones. See:

USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR200801

1501555_pf.html

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR20080

11501555_pf.html>

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, January 16, 2008; A03

The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers

to keep

their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food

and Drug

Administration officials announced that food from cloned

livestock is

safe to eat.

Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and

regulatory

programs, requested an ongoing " voluntary moratorium " to buy

time for

" an acceptance process " that Knight said consumers in the United

States

and abroad will need, " given the emotional nature of this

issue. "

Yet even as the two agencies sought a unified message -- that

food from

clones is safe for people but perhaps dangerous to U.S. markets

and

trade relations -- evidence surfaced suggesting that Americans

and

others are probably already eating meat from the offspring of

clones.

Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies

conceded

yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many

offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a

years-old

request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending

completion of the

agency's safety report.

At least one Kansas cattle producer also disclosed yesterday

that he has

openly sold semen from prize-winning clones to many U.S. meat

producers

in the past few years, and that he is certain he is not alone.

" This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and

is not

already in the food chain, " said Coover, a Galesburg

cattleman

and veterinarian who has a specialty cattle semen business.

" Anyone who

tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking

about, or

they're not being honest. "

Yesterday's awkwardly meshed announcements by FDA and USDA

officials,

made at a joint news conference in Washington, reflected

continuing

divisions among U.S. regulatory agencies on how to deal with the

issue

of food from clones.

F. Sundlof, director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and

Applied

Nutrition, spoke from his perspective as the person who oversaw

that

agency's six-year review of the safety of milk and meat from

clones and

their offspring. He released the results of that 968-page " final

risk

analysis, " saying " meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat

clones are

as safe as food we eat every day. "

That conclusion amounted to handing the cloned-food hot potato

to the

USDA's Knight, whose agency has the responsibility of getting

those

products accepted on the market.

Recent surveys indicate that the agency has a challenge. Last

year, 22

percent of Americans who responded to a major survey said they

had a

favorable impression of food from clones.

That was up from 16 percent a year earlier. Nonetheless, about

50

percent have an unfavorable impression, said le " Dani "

Schor of

the International Food Information Council Foundation, an

industry-funded interest group that has conducted the survey of

1,000

Americans annually since 2004.

At issue are clones of beef cattle, dairy cows, pigs and goats,

as well

as their offspring, which farmers in the United States and a few

other

countries are starting to raise in an effort to produce more

consistently high-quality milk and meat.

In recent weeks, as it became clear that the FDA was ready to

release

its positive safety report, officials there began encountering

resistance from other agencies that would have to deal with the

consequences of food from clones entering the U.S. food supply.

Some of them, including the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service

and the

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, have been struggling

for years

to persuade countries in Europe and other parts of the world to

accept

gene-altered crops from the United States. The last thing those

agencies

needed, insiders said, was a new U.S. product that nobody wants.

The USDA's request that farmers keep their clones out of the

food chain,

probably for a few more years, " is simply allowing the time for

an

orderly transition to occur, " Knight said, adding that the

department is

already having conversations with U.S. trading partners and

trying to

smooth the way to acceptance.

Some U.S. consumer groups have expressed concern for the cloned

animals,

which often have health problems, and have suggested that the

American

public may be as tough a sell as the wary consumers in the

European

Union and Japan.

" Despite the fact that cloned animals suffer high mortality

rates and

those who survive are often plagued with birth defects and

diseases, the

FDA did not give adequate consideration to the welfare of these

animals

or their surrogate mothers in its deliberations, " said Wayne

Pacelle,

chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.

Some U.S. groups have demanded that food from clones be labeled

to give

consumers the " right to choose. "

But Greenwood, president of the Biotechnology Industry

Organization, whose members include the nation's biggest

farm-animal

cloning companies, rejected that idea, as has the FDA. He said

cloning

is simply a way to make offspring. Other methods of farm animal

procreation, such as in vitro fertilization and artificial

insemination,

are not listed on food labels.

He and other industry representatives specifically rejected

proposals to

label food from conventionally conceived offspring of clones.

While the now-expired FDA moratorium sought to keep both clones

and

their offspring off the market, the new USDA moratorium requests

only

that clones themselves be withheld, so the offspring might make

it to

store shelves within a few years.

But imagine the labels that would appear if certain rules were

in place,

Greenwood said:

" 'This steak's father was a clone.' 'This steak's grandfather

was a

clone.' 'This steak's great-grandmother was a clone.'

" At what point does it become absurd? "

Staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.

--

ne Holden, MS, RD

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[Guest guest]

I would really think so, however I can only imagine that they will now tripe the

prices.

Jen Zingaro wrote: What will become of organic

meat and milk products? Will they avoid

using clones?

I hope so, that way I can have some control over what my family is

eating. *sigh*

[bULK] Re: Cloned meat

Importance: Low

Jen Zingaro wrote:

> Okay, so the FDA says that cloned meat is safe.

> I heard on the today show that this cloned meat doesn't need

to be

> labeled.

>

> I could have sworn that I had heard some time ago that it

needed to be

> labeled.

> This is troubling to me. Anyone else disturbed?

Deeply. But we may not be the only ones. See:

USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR200801

1501555_pf.html

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR20080

11501555_pf.html>

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, January 16, 2008; A03

The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers

to keep

their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food

and Drug

Administration officials announced that food from cloned

livestock is

safe to eat.

Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and

regulatory

programs, requested an ongoing " voluntary moratorium " to buy

time for

" an acceptance process " that Knight said consumers in the United

States

and abroad will need, " given the emotional nature of this

issue. "

Yet even as the two agencies sought a unified message -- that

food from

clones is safe for people but perhaps dangerous to U.S. markets

and

trade relations -- evidence surfaced suggesting that Americans

and

others are probably already eating meat from the offspring of

clones.

Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies

conceded

yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many

offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a

years-old

request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending

completion of the

agency's safety report.

At least one Kansas cattle producer also disclosed yesterday

that he has

openly sold semen from prize-winning clones to many U.S. meat

producers

in the past few years, and that he is certain he is not alone.

" This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and

is not

already in the food chain, " said Coover, a Galesburg

cattleman

and veterinarian who has a specialty cattle semen business.

" Anyone who

tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking

about, or

they're not being honest. "

Yesterday's awkwardly meshed announcements by FDA and USDA

officials,

made at a joint news conference in Washington, reflected

continuing

divisions among U.S. regulatory agencies on how to deal with the

issue

of food from clones.

F. Sundlof, director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and

Applied

Nutrition, spoke from his perspective as the person who oversaw

that

agency's six-year review of the safety of milk and meat from

clones and

their offspring. He released the results of that 968-page " final

risk

analysis, " saying " meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat

clones are

as safe as food we eat every day. "

That conclusion amounted to handing the cloned-food hot potato

to the

USDA's Knight, whose agency has the responsibility of getting

those

products accepted on the market.

Recent surveys indicate that the agency has a challenge. Last

year, 22

percent of Americans who responded to a major survey said they

had a

favorable impression of food from clones.

That was up from 16 percent a year earlier. Nonetheless, about

50

percent have an unfavorable impression, said le " Dani "

Schor of

the International Food Information Council Foundation, an

industry-funded interest group that has conducted the survey of

1,000

Americans annually since 2004.

At issue are clones of beef cattle, dairy cows, pigs and goats,

as well

as their offspring, which farmers in the United States and a few

other

countries are starting to raise in an effort to produce more

consistently high-quality milk and meat.

In recent weeks, as it became clear that the FDA was ready to

release

its positive safety report, officials there began encountering

resistance from other agencies that would have to deal with the

consequences of food from clones entering the U.S. food supply.

Some of them, including the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service

and the

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, have been struggling

for years

to persuade countries in Europe and other parts of the world to

accept

gene-altered crops from the United States. The last thing those

agencies

needed, insiders said, was a new U.S. product that nobody wants.

The USDA's request that farmers keep their clones out of the

food chain,

probably for a few more years, " is simply allowing the time for

an

orderly transition to occur, " Knight said, adding that the

department is

already having conversations with U.S. trading partners and

trying to

smooth the way to acceptance.

Some U.S. consumer groups have expressed concern for the cloned

animals,

which often have health problems, and have suggested that the

American

public may be as tough a sell as the wary consumers in the

European

Union and Japan.

" Despite the fact that cloned animals suffer high mortality

rates and

those who survive are often plagued with birth defects and

diseases, the

FDA did not give adequate consideration to the welfare of these

animals

or their surrogate mothers in its deliberations, " said Wayne

Pacelle,

chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.

Some U.S. groups have demanded that food from clones be labeled

to give

consumers the " right to choose. "

But Greenwood, president of the Biotechnology Industry

Organization, whose members include the nation's biggest

farm-animal

cloning companies, rejected that idea, as has the FDA. He said

cloning

is simply a way to make offspring. Other methods of farm animal

procreation, such as in vitro fertilization and artificial

insemination,

are not listed on food labels.

He and other industry representatives specifically rejected

proposals to

label food from conventionally conceived offspring of clones.

While the now-expired FDA moratorium sought to keep both clones

and

their offspring off the market, the new USDA moratorium requests

only

that clones themselves be withheld, so the offspring might make

it to

store shelves within a few years.

But imagine the labels that would appear if certain rules were

in place,

Greenwood said:

" 'This steak's father was a clone.' 'This steak's grandfather

was a

clone.' 'This steak's great-grandmother was a clone.'

" At what point does it become absurd? "

Staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.

--

ne Holden, MS, RD

" Ask the Parkinson Dietitian " http://www.parkinson.org/

<http://www.parkinson.org/>

" Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease "

" Parkinson's disease: Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy "

http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/

<http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/>

[Guest guest]

It just goes to show you what a hypocrite the president is. He is

absolutely against cloning humans for religious and other reasons.

Why is it okay for animals to be mistreated? I'll tell you why.

Because his corporate buddies can continue to make more money.

[bULK] Re: Cloned meat

Importance: Low

This is absolutely disgusting....Vegetarianism is knocking very

loudly on my door!!!

I just can believe that the Nation has had to go to this level.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when did cows become endangered????? Why in

the world do we need to clone cows? Were we having a shortage problem

and I didn't know about it?

Really why do we have to stup down to this level of artificial

insemination. It's just not the natural way of life and it has WRONG

written all over it. Can you just imagine what this can bring in the

future, who really knows anyways? With all the holes in the system who's

going to closely monitor the safely of meat from sickly cloned animals.

This whole situation is disturbing and upsetting....some much

wholesome nutrition and good quality protein.

Labeling has to be required it becomes a religious issue as

well. From all the articles I have read, I believe that they are

allowing meat producers to label " Clone Free Meat " , leaving the risk of

eating out and wondering where the restaurant's meat supply comes from.

ne Holden <fivestar@...

<mailto:fivestar%40nutritionucanlivewith.com> > wrote:

Jen Zingaro wrote:

> Okay, so the FDA says that cloned meat is safe.

> I heard on the today show that this cloned meat doesn't need

to be

> labeled.

>

> I could have sworn that I had heard some time ago that it

needed to be

> labeled.

> This is troubling to me. Anyone else disturbed?

Deeply. But we may not be the only ones. See:

USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR200801

1501555_pf.html

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR20080

11501555_pf.html>

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, January 16, 2008; A03

The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers

to keep

their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as Food

and Drug

Administration officials announced that food from cloned

livestock is

safe to eat.

Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and

regulatory

programs, requested an ongoing " voluntary moratorium " to buy

time for

" an acceptance process " that Knight said consumers in the United

States

and abroad will need, " given the emotional nature of this

issue. "

Yet even as the two agencies sought a unified message -- that

food from

clones is safe for people but perhaps dangerous to U.S. markets

and

trade relations -- evidence surfaced suggesting that Americans

and

others are probably already eating meat from the offspring of

clones.

Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies

conceded

yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many

offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a

years-old

request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending

completion of the

agency's safety report.

At least one Kansas cattle producer also disclosed yesterday

that he has

openly sold semen from prize-winning clones to many U.S. meat

producers

in the past few years, and that he is certain he is not alone.

" This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and

is not

already in the food chain, " said Coover, a Galesburg

cattleman

and veterinarian who has a specialty cattle semen business.

" Anyone who

tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking

about, or

they're not being honest. "

Yesterday's awkwardly meshed announcements by FDA and USDA

officials,

made at a joint news conference in Washington, reflected

continuing

divisions among U.S. regulatory agencies on how to deal with the

issue

of food from clones.

F. Sundlof, director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and

Applied

Nutrition, spoke from his perspective as the person who oversaw

that

agency's six-year review of the safety of milk and meat from

clones and

their offspring. He released the results of that 968-page " final

risk

analysis, " saying " meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat

clones are

as safe as food we eat every day. "

That conclusion amounted to handing the cloned-food hot potato

to the

USDA's Knight, whose agency has the responsibility of getting

those

products accepted on the market.

Recent surveys indicate that the agency has a challenge. Last

year, 22

percent of Americans who responded to a major survey said they

had a

favorable impression of food from clones.

That was up from 16 percent a year earlier. Nonetheless, about

50

percent have an unfavorable impression, said le " Dani "

Schor of

the International Food Information Council Foundation, an

industry-funded interest group that has conducted the survey of

1,000

Americans annually since 2004.

At issue are clones of beef cattle, dairy cows, pigs and goats,

as well

as their offspring, which farmers in the United States and a few

other

countries are starting to raise in an effort to produce more

consistently high-quality milk and meat.

In recent weeks, as it became clear that the FDA was ready to

release

its positive safety report, officials there began encountering

resistance from other agencies that would have to deal with the

consequences of food from clones entering the U.S. food supply.

Some of them, including the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service

and the

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, have been struggling

for years

to persuade countries in Europe and other parts of the world to

accept

gene-altered crops from the United States. The last thing those

agencies

needed, insiders said, was a new U.S. product that nobody wants.

The USDA's request that farmers keep their clones out of the

food chain,

probably for a few more years, " is simply allowing the time for

an

orderly transition to occur, " Knight said, adding that the

department is

already having conversations with U.S. trading partners and

trying to

smooth the way to acceptance.

Some U.S. consumer groups have expressed concern for the cloned

animals,

which often have health problems, and have suggested that the

American

public may be as tough a sell as the wary consumers in the

European

Union and Japan.

" Despite the fact that cloned animals suffer high mortality

rates and

those who survive are often plagued with birth defects and

diseases, the

FDA did not give adequate consideration to the welfare of these

animals

or their surrogate mothers in its deliberations, " said Wayne

Pacelle,

chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States.

Some U.S. groups have demanded that food from clones be labeled

to give

consumers the " right to choose. "

But Greenwood, president of the Biotechnology Industry

Organization, whose members include the nation's biggest

farm-animal

cloning companies, rejected that idea, as has the FDA. He said

cloning

is simply a way to make offspring. Other methods of farm animal

procreation, such as in vitro fertilization and artificial

insemination,

are not listed on food labels.

He and other industry representatives specifically rejected

proposals to

label food from conventionally conceived offspring of clones.

While the now-expired FDA moratorium sought to keep both clones

and

their offspring off the market, the new USDA moratorium requests

only

that clones themselves be withheld, so the offspring might make

it to

store shelves within a few years.

But imagine the labels that would appear if certain rules were

in place,

Greenwood said:

" 'This steak's father was a clone.' 'This steak's grandfather

was a

clone.' 'This steak's great-grandmother was a clone.'

" At what point does it become absurd? "

Staff researcher Madonna Lebling contributed to this report.

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ne Holden, MS, RD

" Ask the Parkinson Dietitian " http://www.parkinson.org/

<http://www.parkinson.org/>

" Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease "

" Parkinson's disease: Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy "

http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/

<http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/>

Romero, MS, RD

Program Coordinator for Community Nutrition

Baptist Medical Plaza at Palmetto Bay

8750 SW 144 Street, Suite 200

Miami, Fl 33176

Office:

Fax:

E-mail: Ro@...

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