First GMO Veggies and Now Cloned Beef and Meat: Scientists Keep Playing With Our Food

I am pro-life all across the board. I don't believe in abortion. I don't believe in using aborted stem cells to produce cures. I don't believe in genetic altering of life of any form, including plants and animals. While many in the pro-life movement fight the cloning of humans and stem cell research, the don't think much about how similar techniques are being used to alter our food supply.

It's hard to go to a grocery store and purchase vegetables, fruits, and grains that haven't been genetically modified by companies like Monsanto without purchasing organics. As well, the nation's beef, chicken, and pork industry has long used chemicals to shorten the production time of its livestock. Many people believe we are starting to see the results of all this cornucopia of science in our foods in such things like little girls developing into women much sooner and getting their first period much sooner than averages decades ago.

Now there may soon be another frankenfood on your dinner table that you may soon be unaware of, especially considering Democrats and a few Republicans are pushing through the food safety act in Congress, which will give corporate agriculture an advantage over the small family farmer whose ethos is to grow safe, natural foods.

Scientists at The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes claim cloned meat is “unlikely to present any risk.” Don't you like that term, unlikely? Science is funny that way. The leave so much wiggle room in order to attain grants and push through their agenda.

It it may even be likely that cloned meat may already be hitting the supermarket without your knowledge.

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Tuesday said he doesn’t know whether cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply.

But Tom Vilsack, in Ottawa to talk trade with food exporters and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, emphasized that if they have, the animals are safe to eat.

“I can’t say today that I can answer your question in an affirmative or negative way. I don’t know. What I do know is that we know all the research, all of the review of this is suggested that this is safe,” Vilsack told reporters, pointing to an assessment of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

What does he mean he doesn't know? Apparently he thinks he knows its safe.

I question that. If you remember Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal, it died prematurely. While scientists wouldn't blame cloning as the reason, the animal died many years before its life expectancy with a number of health complications. An average sheep can live 11 to 12 years, but by age six Dolly suffered from cancer and from arthritis.

Like most science, isn't it possible the scientist driven by their research grants are overlooking the possibility that cloning produced a sick animal, which now appears likely to be heading towards our food supply. I don't like the arrogance of this science that believes it can take what God made and make it better for human consumption.