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RE: Labels for Cloned Food Products? Who Needs them ...?

Pygmy Princess — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:15:00 GMT

If companies don't want to label their food and lobby against it, you have to ask yourself ... what are they trying to hide? Grow your own, buy local and try to minimize your contribution to the industrial food machine!

RE: Labels for Cloned Food Products? Who Needs them ...?

Sue Weaver — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:25:18 GMT

I agree wholeheartedly with Rusty Pumpkin. Our labeling laws aren't strict enough. If I choose to buy South American produce, that's one thing. If I think I'm getting an American product, I don't want it to originate in South America.

RE: Labels for Cloned Food Products? Who Needs them ...?

rustypumpkin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:36:14 GMT

I think every meat , milk and produce should be label with country of origin.
I want to know where my food comes from, and would rather buy locally grown produce.

RE: Labels for Cloned Food Products? Who Needs them ...?

Mare Owner — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:24:24 GMT

Personally, I do want to know if something is GM or been treated with hormones/antiboitics. But I don't care that it was cloned. A cow cloned from another cow is still a cow. Unless the genes are modified and change something in the meat I am eating, I don't see how the meat is any different if it came from a cloned animal.

RE: Labels for Cloned Food Products? Who Needs them ...?

Sue Weaver — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:20:53 GMT

YES! I think it's a crime that genetically-altered foods and milk from cattle given hormones isn't labeled--now I can add cloned foods to the list?

We're already consuming foods that can't legally be sold in in other developed countries and I for one want to know what's going on with the food I eat!

Sue Weaver

Labels for Cloned Food Products? Who Needs them ...?

HFfriend — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:17:45 GMT

Now that the FDA has said cloned food products are "OK," it seems that producers of such livestock and products are free to ship them to your local grocery -- but you probably won't know which items are cloned!

There is currently no requirement asking producers to label their item so that consumers know the product came from a cloned animal.

According to a report from Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports:

89 percent of consumers want labels on products from clones.
Are you one of the 89 percent?

Follow this link to learn how you can contact your legislators to co-sponsor the Cloned Food Labeling Act.
https://secure.npsite.org/cu/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1789

What DO YOU think?
-- Should cloned food products be labeled?
-- Do you think it's safe?
-- What do you think is the best approach to the issue?