Ben Paytner's work "The Other Other White Meat", opens the readers mind to the reality of cloned meat potentially being in the supermarket. Some farmers seek to maintain the current productive and beneficial state of their animals and so for that reason they clone them, to create exact replicas with the same beneficial and productive attributes. The meat from these clones is then circulated into the supermarkets, and it has become possible that whoever is reading this may have eaten cloned meat...how does that make you feel?
The FDA, although always imposing extremely strict regulations on the food industry in general, has not made a very difinitive judgment when it comes to cloned meat in the supermarket. in 2002 they declared that cloned meat was perfectly fine to eat because it was conventionally bred from animals. However, they asked that cloned meat was not to be sold. An interesting and confusing decision considering their opinion that the meat is safe. However, it is very difficult for the FDA to enforce their ruling because, as Paytner even observed, it impossibe to tell the difference between cloned and traditionally raised meat.
Why does the FDA care to make regulations when they deemed that the meat was safe to eat?
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