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 Cloned cows Peggy Sue (right) and Anna Belle graze on a farm operated by ViaGen outside of Austin, Texas, on Oct. 4, 2005. AP Photo on npr.org |
FDA Finds Meat, Milk from Clones Safe to Eat once again, biotech out of control. i heard they were coming out with this report a week ago and it immediately made me want to give up meat and all industrial food for good. i went to the cooperative-owned market nearby and put down 40 bucks for 2 bags of mostly organic and/or locally grown fruits and greens. i remember the berkeley bowl days o'plenty when i could fill up two bags for $20. i'll just eat less, i tell myself. since clover milk costs so much here, i drink mostly soy milk now to avoid all the chemicals and hormones the poor cows ingest with their feed. last night i went to an indigenous food sovereignty event at the Hawaiian STudies Center at UH, and it was pretty amazing and disgusting how far biotech corporations and universities will go to protect what they call their "academic freedom" - which means they basically steal the seeds of the indigenous peoples and genetically engineer them to sell them (sometimes back to the same people they stole the seeds from) to make a profit. last night a taro farmer spoke on behalf of the taro and Hawaiians and it was pretty clear that UH doesnt have the upper hand. also, nutritionally, he mentioned that people with wheat and gluten allergies can eat poi. |