Mom, can we have cloned meat for dinner? by gimleteye

For years I was mad about supermarkets that tried to pass tomatoes grown in South Dade as tomatoes. No one seemed to mind as the perfectly red and round tomatoes tasting like the telephone book took over the grocery shelves. Then there was the FDA approval of genetically modified food crops to get me hopped up. Now the FDA is approving food from cloned animals, a bonanza for industrial food chain suppliers.

In the blissfully ignorant United States, freedom means nothing left to alter for profit. Mom, can we have cloned meat for dinner?

The “experts” at the FDA, probably mid-level executives from the farming industry, have proof we have nothing to fear from cloned animals.

What ordinary people feared about GMO food crops has come to pass: GMO altered organisms that scientists and their advocates guaranteed would be segregated from the food supply have infiltrated farmland never intended to host them.

As a result, there is no turning back from GMO, nor from any adverse consequences that arise from tampering with nature, or, only at a very great cost.

Approving the sale of meat from cloned animals is another drastic step for consumers, promoted by industry.

I will never, ever buy cloned meat from an animal, but I also don’t trust the US government to properly label food.

My choice is to shop for food nearly exclusively at supermarkets that advertise as organic. The “green” section at Publix and other chain supermarkets strike me as false advertising.

So far I have been able to afford to pay for organically grown produce and meat but I’m still angry at the way our government has allowed the food supply to be contaminated by industrial products.

Our nation may not always be so rich and wealthy to afford the ways we have abused our food supply.

The road to perdition is paved with this sort of demonstrated competence. Please pass the cloned brisket.