Thursday, February 07, 2008

gross

Are you already eating cloned meat?

You may have been discouraged to hear that the FDA gave the green light for companies to sell meat from cloned animals.[1] The real news? It has probably already been on our shelves for years.

For years, the FDA has asked major cattle cloning companies to keep their products off the market. For years, they've ignored. One Kansas farmer has already come forward and admitted to openly selling semen from prize-winning clones to U.S. meat producers, while another cattleman says that, "This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is not already in the food chain."[2] This is unacceptable. That's why TrueMajorityAction is demanding that Congress pass a law requiring that all products from cloned animals be clearly labeled.

Tell Congress: Cloned animal products should be clearly labeled.

It should be up to us to decide whether or not we want to consume these products, not a group of people who repeatedly put political and corporate interests above the health of the nation. Nothing is more important than the food we put into our bodies. We deserve to know what we are eating. Tell your member of Congress to take action on this important issue.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Sincerely,

Ben Kroetz
TrueMajorityAction.org Online Organizer

1. "FDA Says Cloned Animals Safe Is Food," Associated Press, January 15, 2008.
2. "USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market," Washington Post, January 16, 2008.

from truemajorityaction.org
and credoaction.com