I ate a steak at home from Bessie the cow. I ate a burger from the burger joint from Bessie the cow. I ate a beef taco at the Mexican restaurant from Bessie the cow. I ate meatballs at the Italian pasta house from Bessie the cow. Wait a minute---all of those separate meals over the course of a month came from Bessie the cow?
Well, the FDA has recently deemed that it is safe to eat cloned beef and milk from cloned animals. Not only that, but there will be no labeling on cloned animal products! With ethical and health arguments flying in the face of this move, the FDA's response is that it only goes by what the evidence gives them, and none of it has been negative.
I have one question: What's wrong with nature?
I guess we want to speed our descent into hell and prove those armageddonists right. Once you start tampering with the natural order of things, our existence is inexorably and permanently altered, good or bad. I have yet to hear any valid reasons why cloned animal products would be a good thing for humanity. Are we trying to achieve uniformity of taste or something? What about preserving diversity amongst our livestock? What if some disease struck the herds of the Angus Po-32 Cloned Beef Line and afflicted the public with some mad-cow-type illness (vegans---you'd be just fine)?
Well, hey diddle-diddle, maybe we can do something useful with this development, like cloning a cow that can jump over the moon! Or even better, maybe this brings us closer to creating designer babies, because we'd all be better off if we had a country full of blonde-haired, blue-eyed clones running the show! Hey---we could call them the FDA!
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