Based on this article from Wired News, FDA Dithers Over Cloned Food, I wonder how the FDA can determine the safety of a product with such limited research in a short time span.
Even more ridiculous, some farmers are pushing the FDA, a safety net for consumers, to lift the ban based on “common sense”.
Bob Schauf, a dairy farmer from Barron, Wisconsin… called the ban “ridiculous. It’s a phobia more than anything scientific. We need to get FDA to come along and say it’s fine. They’re as normal as any other animal. Common sense has to take over soon.”
The fact that non-scientist farmers try to tell a primarily scientific organization to do one thing another is just stupid.
This is something we see all too much in a corporate-driven (and thus profit-driven) society. The upsetting part about the dairy industry’s objection to the voluntary ban wasn’t because of long term health concerns, but it’s because they thought the consumers would “feel” weird about such products.
Now, if they could find ways to conceal products being labeled as “cloned”, I suspect everyone would be drinking milk from cloned cows.