As Americans celebrated New Year's by tearing into a juicy steak or enjoying several alcoholic beverages, this time next year they might be in for a surprise about their culinary hedonism. Recently, the US Food and Drug Association surprised few when it announced animal byproducts, mainly meat and dairy, can be sold to consumers without any notification that it was the byproduct of laboratory cloning. There are many arguments against selling and consuming animal byproducts but the most fact-based is comparing the genetic composition of the cloned animals to their 'organic' counterparts."In 2002, researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reported that the genomes of cloned mice are compromised. In analyzing more than 10,000 liver and placenta cells of cloned mice, they discovered that about 4% of genes function abnormally. The abnormalities do not arise from mutations in the genes but from changes in the normal activation or expression of certain genes." (source)
For any carnivore/omnivore out there, this is just one of a long list of reasons why you should take steps to eliminate meat from your diet.
article by John O.
