Would you eat a cloned animal?
Early last week Dean Foods Co. a $10 billion a year food company based in Dallas TX and owners of such brands as Land O' Lakes and Horizon Organic has said no to using the milk that comes from cloned animals. They said that this is a response to their consumer poll on the topic. Well excuse me, but I would like to know from what part of the country did they poll. I certainly was not polled and I am a consumer of said products.
Personal morals have always played a part in the food we eat, there were always are two schools of thought on this: you're either in the school of, "I don't care where my food comes from as long as it looks and tastes good" or you're in the, "I need to know that this animal was masturbated before he was slaughtered so that I know it died happy in a bed a roses" school.
Well now we got some new school thinking, Do I care that this animal was cloned from another animal or not? I personally don't care if the animal was cloned...as long as it was masturbated so that I know it died happy. JK, I am all for cloning of animals for food. We are growing both as a population and in girth, if you have ever been to a Cracker Barrel for breakfast in Indianapolis on a sunday you know exactly what I mean.
Food costs are at an all time high and farmers have become more efficient in getting the most out of their animals, but there has to be a breaking point where the animal says no more, and we get tired of eating chicken that tastes like...I know you thought I was gonna say chicken, but no it tastes like NOTHING! Chicken doesn't even taste like chicken anymore and why is that, because Frank Purdue has to raise these chickens faster and feed them crap so that they can grow up big and strong faster than before.
Cloning I believe would put an end to that, we could clone a great breed of chicken allow it to be raised normal and proper cause there would be alot of them, kill it, eat it and we would all happy.
Morals smorals, I need me some tasty chicken.
UPDATE: Whole Paycheck (I mean Foods) has also said no to selling meat and products from cloned animals. Morals win again.
The FDA is accepting public opinion on this topic until April 2, 2007. Click here and you will be directed to the FDA's press release on the topic and at the bottom of the page there is another link to click to voice your opinion.
Update #2 Business week has started a debate on this as well. Click here to go to their article.
