On Cloning

Cloning our public milk and meat puts more power straight into the hands of major monopolic conglomerations. They are the ones that can afford the complicated equipment and personnel to engineer and place these clones into their surrogate mothers. They also have the money needed to enlist or build and employ veterinary facilities for their often sickly cloned infant animals.

That leaves family farms again unable to meet the demand of the public for good, cheap meat. That's a lot of why we are in this mess we are in, because we didn't want to wait for the animals to grow to slaughter weight naturally. The demand for so much meat isn't sustainable naturally - they way God intended it to be - and so we allow other people to pump our food full of unnatural feed and antibiotics to force it to grow to slaughter weight (1200 pounds for a steer) in just 14 months. Allowed to reach this weight naturally, it would take years.


Why clone at all? It is infinitely more expensive to raise a cloned animal (from impregnation to birth to slaughter), and so it's been suggested that the companies would then use the more valuable animal for breeding purposes instead of slaughtering it for the market. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.

Cloned animals are more sickly than (I hate to call them "regular" or "normal" animals) their traditional counterparts and if not for highly specialized veterinary care, most would die long before they were even born. These high rates of miscarriages put strain and stress on surrogate mothers. Babies, if born alive, can be malformed and are certainly in more jeopardy health-wise than normal babies.

The FDA continually ignores public outcry that cloned meat and milk at least be labeled so consumers who wish to can avoid it.

Those who do resist are often labeled negatively and laughed at and patted on the head as if a small child who asked a dumb question. We are reassured with easy language and pat answers that everything is okay, that everything is safe. But we are told that so often - that something is okay and safe - that we are becoming suspicious. We know better.

Their arguments are that the same outcries went up over pasteurizing milk, and over artificial insemination and look where we are on those issues now. That we are obviously better off and cloning will follow the same path.

Those of us awake to the real food of yore know what is wrong with these things. We know they are not of God. We refuse to be coddled and reassured with falsities and we resist, albeit peacefully. We bring (most of) our food from the ground with hard work and prayer. We are trying to break through with earnest pleas for intelligence in regards to that most basic of needs: healthy food.

Sources:
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/campaign/cloned-animals/
http://www.livescience.com/2182-cloned-milk-meat-beef.html
Photos: William Warby.