Please take a short break from promoting your favorite candidate to learn about and act on this issue regarding your New Year's grocery list.
"Tastes like Chicken" is about to lose out to "Really mom, it tastes exactly like the chicken we ate last week," if the FDA refuses to listen to Congress & the people and makes the announcement that animals can be cloned and sold for food, and without labels.
Yuck!!!
Advocacy and watchdog groups are putting consumers on alert. The meat and dairy products they buy may soon come from cloned animals, and they will not even know it. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its analysis on cloning, which means that an announcement could come by the end of this month that animals can be cloned and sold for food, and without labels.
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/...
WASHINGTON - A long-running clash over the marketing of meat and milk from cloned animals is coming to a head in Washington as the government prepares to make a ruling that would allow the products to be sold to consumers for the first time.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
An amendment which was included in the Farm Bill (H.R. 2419) might have lulled you into thinking
you were safe from chewing on the same fat over and over:
Advanced by Senators Barbara Mikulski and Arlen Specter, amendment 3524 was designed to address concerns that the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) risk assessment of the controversial technology was flawed.calls for a rigorous review of the human health and economic impacts of introducing cloned foods.
The US Senate on Friday passed the 2007 farm bill, The Food and Energy Security Act, by an overwhelming majority of 79-14.
The amendment requires that two rigorous studies be performed before the FDA is able to issue a final decision on food from clones.
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/...
However, the FDA may be going ahead with its ruling, no point in waiting to see if the Farm Bill with the above amendment passes and is actually signed into law.
No, the FDA, working hard to ensure the flavor of beef really lasts......while ensuring the profits of Corporate Agriculture last too.
Critics worry that the FDA might want to act before any of the congressional measures delaying action becomes law, sometime between this week and the end of the year.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/...
What can WE do to persuade the FDA to wait for further studies before they make their decision whether or not to release cloned food into our system...NOTHING!
But we can Act with our $$$$ persuasion.
Call Wal-mart 800-925-6278 Investor 479-273-8446 media-800-331-0085
and McDonalds 1-800-244-6227
Tell them you won’t buy meat or dairy products from them if the FDA releases cloned food into the system.
Tell them you will no longer trust the food supply system no matter how many guarantees they say they will put into place to exclude cloned products or label them, you will not shop for Big Macs or Wal-mart Milk !!!
http://walmartstores.com/...
http://www.mcdonalds.com/...