Mmm, Tastes Cloney!

Who hasn't finished a delicious bacon cheeseburger and thought to themselves, "Gee, I wish I had another bacon cheeseburger just like that one." Well, guess what? Thanks to the Food and Drug Administration, your wish has been granted. According to MSNBC:

After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock.

This is a cue for everyone with an activist mindset to repeat the word "virtually", and then make some poorly informed speech along the line of "what do we really know" about cloned animal meat - neglecting the first seven words of that excerpt. Then they will assert that it's really a capitalist plot to line the pockets of the greedy rich, somehow.

If anyone who is against cloned meat can give me a scientific explanation why it is wrong (without using Google to obtain hyped factoids) - then I will gladly listen. Otherwise you are simply falling prey to fear. Vague arguments about how it's "just wrong" do not count, and are especially tiresome if you are a secular materialist who thinks that any kind of moral judgement about the behavior of human beings is tantamount to fascism.

The food we eat, both vegetable and protein, has been screwed with left, right and sideways during the past 20,000 years. It's been happening ever since we stopped following animal scat because some nomad noticed how seeds dropped in a certain location yielded grain the next year. We've been cross-breeding, manipulating, preserving, and in some cases completely transforming everything that goes down our gullets. Given that tradition cloned meat is nothing new, and any dispute should take place on the grounds of science. The fact that genuine food and safety experts are employed by the FDA (and studied this nut for five years) should be worth noting.

Meanwhile, we've got a whole new meaning for the phrase "Double Whopper".

Tags: FDA, Food Cloning