I don't know how many of you have caught the recent news articles regarding the FDA's stance that food from certain cloned animals and their offspring is safe to eat and that current FDA regulations could allow for these products to find their way into our grocery baskets without any notice, special labeling or guidelines!!!
WHAT? Did I miss something? Have I been dreaming?
I thought with the outbreak of "Mad Cow Desease" in Europe a few years back and the few isolated cases of it found in North America had started to raise awareness both on the part of the consumer and on the part of our government agencies that we should ALL start being a little more careful about what goes into our bodies!!!
More and more articles are written weekly about the benefits of "organic" "all-natural" and "sustainable" ingredients being used to prepare our meals. The benefits are two-fold in that it is better for us personally as well as better for our environment.
Here in Maine, one of the larger grocery store chains has been marketing heavily their whole new "All-Natural" line of food stuffs. Stores like "Whole Foods" continue to open in state after state with local consumers lining up to shop at these stores.
Would anyone really want to be eating a thick and juicy "cloned" Porterhouse, hot of the grill? Does any mother out there actually think that feeding her child a "cloned" cheeseburger sounds like a good idea?
When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I can remember a TV commercial for some brand of "artificial" butter (margarine), where deep in the forest, surrounded by wild animals, stood Mother Nature (in all her beauty) crunching on a piece of toasted "white" bread covered with this lovely concoction of synthetic lard. Suddenly, she aggressively thrusts her hands towards the heavens proclaiming that "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" as the dark clouds fall upon the forest and the wild creatures scury off looking for shelter from the ensuing fury about to be bestowed upon the earth. I cannot stop and think how appropriate that commercial seems to be today in the face of this news from the FDA.
What is your take? Would you be content going to your local grocery store or out to a restaurant and ordering up your favorite steak, cooked just the way you like it, not knowing if this culinary marvel was in fact from a "cloned" animal? Would you be the least bit disturbed pulling up to your favorite "fast food" joint and "super-sizing" some "cloned" ground beef? Not what I would call a "Happy Meal"!!!
Is there anyone out there that thinks that the idea of digesting any food which comes to us from a "cloned" animal is a Good Idea? I would love to hear your rational!
For me, tofu and veggie-burgers are sounding better and better and I cannot stomach the taste of veggie-burgers and tofu does nothing for me from a culinary point of view.
Please let me know your thoughts on this one!
Thanks,
Chef John
WHAT? Did I miss something? Have I been dreaming?
I thought with the outbreak of "Mad Cow Desease" in Europe a few years back and the few isolated cases of it found in North America had started to raise awareness both on the part of the consumer and on the part of our government agencies that we should ALL start being a little more careful about what goes into our bodies!!!
More and more articles are written weekly about the benefits of "organic" "all-natural" and "sustainable" ingredients being used to prepare our meals. The benefits are two-fold in that it is better for us personally as well as better for our environment.
Here in Maine, one of the larger grocery store chains has been marketing heavily their whole new "All-Natural" line of food stuffs. Stores like "Whole Foods" continue to open in state after state with local consumers lining up to shop at these stores.
Would anyone really want to be eating a thick and juicy "cloned" Porterhouse, hot of the grill? Does any mother out there actually think that feeding her child a "cloned" cheeseburger sounds like a good idea?
When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I can remember a TV commercial for some brand of "artificial" butter (margarine), where deep in the forest, surrounded by wild animals, stood Mother Nature (in all her beauty) crunching on a piece of toasted "white" bread covered with this lovely concoction of synthetic lard. Suddenly, she aggressively thrusts her hands towards the heavens proclaiming that "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" as the dark clouds fall upon the forest and the wild creatures scury off looking for shelter from the ensuing fury about to be bestowed upon the earth. I cannot stop and think how appropriate that commercial seems to be today in the face of this news from the FDA.
What is your take? Would you be content going to your local grocery store or out to a restaurant and ordering up your favorite steak, cooked just the way you like it, not knowing if this culinary marvel was in fact from a "cloned" animal? Would you be the least bit disturbed pulling up to your favorite "fast food" joint and "super-sizing" some "cloned" ground beef? Not what I would call a "Happy Meal"!!!
Is there anyone out there that thinks that the idea of digesting any food which comes to us from a "cloned" animal is a Good Idea? I would love to hear your rational!
For me, tofu and veggie-burgers are sounding better and better and I cannot stomach the taste of veggie-burgers and tofu does nothing for me from a culinary point of view.
Please let me know your thoughts on this one!
Thanks,
Chef John
3 comments:
Windows On The Water a fine experience always ... don't think exact DNA replication is a great idea. We should be like our parents?
pj
PJ:
You're right, the exact DNA thing has always been a problem for man-kind...think royal bloodline problems.
Thanks for the post,
Chef John
I actually think the meat itself would probably be okay, but it just gives me the creeps in general. The whole cloning thing is creepy. This FDA information is particularly scary because it means there's a whole lot going on with cloning that WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT!
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