{"id":60,"date":"2005-07-11T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T19:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:01:51","slug":"fda-dithers-over-cloned-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/fda-dithers-over-cloned-food\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Dithers Over Cloned Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on this article from <i>Wired News<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,68161,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\" target=\"_blank\"><i>FDA Dithers Over Cloned Food<\/i><\/a>, I wonder how the FDA can determine the safety of a product with such limited research in a short time span.<\/p>\n<p>Even more ridiculous, some farmers are pushing the FDA, a safety net for consumers, to lift the ban based on <i>&#8220;common sense&#8221;<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bob Schauf, a dairy farmer from Barron, Wisconsin&#8230; called the ban &#8220;ridiculous. It&#8217;s a phobia more than anything scientific. We need to get FDA to come along and say it&#8217;s fine. They&#8217;re as normal as any other animal. Common sense has to take over soon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that non-scientist farmers try to tell a primarily scientific organization to do one thing another is just stupid.<\/p>\n<p>This is something we see all too much in a corporate-driven (and thus profit-driven) society. The upsetting part about the dairy industry&#8217;s objection to the voluntary ban wasn&#8217;t because of long term health concerns, but it&#8217;s because they thought the consumers would &#8220;feel&#8221; weird about such products. <\/p>\n<p>Now, if they could find ways to conceal products being labeled as &#8220;cloned&#8221;, I suspect everyone would be drinking milk from cloned cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on this article from Wired News, FDA Dithers Over Cloned Food, I wonder how the FDA can determine the safety of a product with such limited research in a short time span. Even more ridiculous, some farmers are pushing the FDA, a safety net for consumers, to lift the ban based on &#8220;common sense&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/fda-dithers-over-cloned-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FDA Dithers Over Cloned Food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-no-logo","category-politics","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}