genetic fiddling
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Fri April 11, 2003 03:29 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government says meat and milk products made from cloned cattle ...
Japan Closer to Bringing Cloned Meat to Market
Fri April 11, 2003 03:29 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government says meat and milk products made from cloned cattle are safe for human consumption, moving the nation one step closer to becoming the world's first to allow such goods on the market.
Japan's Health Ministry said in a report obtained by Reuters on Friday that no abnormalities had been found in meat or milk derived from cloning technology.
But the report, based on a three-year study, also called for the creation of a system to deal with any problems that might crop up in future.
"Because it is a new technology, we conclude that special considerations should be taken," the report said.
Sales of food made from cloned animals are currently prohibited under a "voluntary" ban urged by the Farm Ministry.
But according to a Kyodo news agency survey conducted in December, 33 of the 40 facilities in Japan that raise cloned cattle are planning or considering shipments in future.
Officials declined to say whether the report would herald a sea change in a country known for its fussy consumers and tight restrictions on foods derived from biotechnology.
"At the moment, we have no plans to allow the distribution of meat or milk from cloned cows in the domestic market," an official at the ministry's inspection and safety division said.
The Health Ministry's report, which echoes similar findings made in June 2000 and last August, refers to cows produced using the cloning technique that created Britain's Dolly the sheep in 1996.
Animals are cloned by taking the nuclei of cells from adults and fusing them, using an electrical current, into other egg cells from which the nuclei have been extracted.
Is Genetically altered or cloned food really safe?
Currently, around 70% of US food has some genetically modified ingredient, could this be affecting people now?
Has there been any changes in society (agression, intelligence,infertility etc.) since GM foods have been introduced in the US?
Agreed. But besides from cloning, there's also the thing where they (the people who make the chickens lol whatever they may be called) inject or feed the chickens or whatever with chemicals that make them more appeasing to the public e.g. hens are injected with a protein that make the yolks of their eggs more yellow yeah cos that's enticing. I think of it as, either way we're going to die from starvation or evil food with evil junk in it. Heh...
Imagine a world without hypothetical situations...
"I want a diamond, I really do
I think that you should give me one
Then you can prove your love is true
And that the gift giving has just begun
I want that diamond, I want that thing
A tennis bracelet, a ring
It better shine, it better cut
I know it is expensive but...
What other way can you make four months of your measely salary last a lifetime
And what other thing have I ever asked you for
Besides...
The ability to read my mind
And I didn't get that either, Yet
I want that diamond, I want it so
All of my irritating friends will know
That I have worth, not only that
But that you love me even though I'm fat
I want that thing, I want it now
I'll say it once, I don't care how you get it
You can rob a store, There just is nothing I want more
Than diamond jewelry for me
And I'll talk louder so you see how very much it means to me!
Even some little stud earrings
Give me the goddamned diamond!!!"- Rasputina, "Diamond mind"
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yeah cos that's enticing. I think of it as, either way we're going to die from starvation or evil food with evil junk in it. Heh...
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