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October 20, 2006
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The Bush administration is reviewing the Food and Drug Administration plan to regulate production of cloned animals and their derivative food products. According to the FDA, the studies they reviewed show that meat and milk from cloned animals are as safe as the meat and milk produced from their conventionally bred counterparts. The biotech industry argues that cloning enables breeders to select what (they) consider the "best animals from the herd for reproduction." Additionally, the biotechnology industry is fighting to not have any special labels on meat and other products that come from cloned animals. Biotech producers fear consumer reaction to "Clone-Free" labels, arguing that there is no difference between regular meat and cloned meat. I guess they don't want to bother giving consumers a choice in the matter. We have to be kept in the dark--our role is to shut up and buy the stuff--forget about having the right to know what we buy with our own money and the right to choose what we put in our bodies. It's all in the interest of corporate America, of course.

