Wednesday, November 16, 2005

How safe is "cloned" consumption?

US administration may allow cloned milk and meat for human consumption

Jumping to conclusions is a folly.  Just 4 years of research and conclusion that cloned food is okay for human consumption, sounds like an extreme case of jumping the gun.

We know too little about cloning to judge its long term effects on human body and mind.  The current environment, which has anyways led to a flurry of carcinogens in the atmosphere, is bad enough.  We are still grappling with issues such as the use of pesticides and hormonal injections.  Even after decades of research, there is no conclusive evidence to make a confident decision on their effect on humans.  

Cloning is still in its experimental stage.  We hardly know enough about cloning to know about its after effects.  To say, cloning is newer than mobile phones, and we are still trying to understand if the mobile waves can cause brain tumor.  I personally would not want to put anything inside my body that is genetically modified and hails from the realm of the unknown.  Human life is the most precious, but more precious, is human health.  

Would you like to eat an experiment?  I refuse to be made a guinea pig of scientific “jumped” conclusions.

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