So, despite the entreaties of consumer groups, it turns out that the FDA won’t be labeling food according to whether or not the animal used for the food was created by cloning, artificial insemination, or sexual intercourse.(I can just hear that ol’ wah-wah guitar cranking up now with Marvin Gaye crooning in the background – “hey baby, meet me behind the stable after midnight, and come alone!...”).
Why not just label whether or not the food was produced by cloning, and leave it at that?
I mean, after all, didn’t we have a little dustup in this country when Monsanto tried to export bioengineered food to Europe (with even Prince Charles claiming that Monsanto was “trying to play God”)?
At least our former 8th district U.S. congressional representative James C. Greenwood will be happy to hear that the cloned food won’t be labeled; he of course has no wish to mislead us, given the fact that he’s president and C.E.O. of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (what possible motivation could he have, right?).
(And doesn’t our boy Jim look so much happier since he cashed in from that gig in Congress?)
Another thing…I’m wondering if people who oppose stem-cell research of any kind also oppose cloning or bioengineering of our food. How could you object to one on the grounds of “messing with the powers of the Infinite” or whatever and not the other as well?
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