The coup de grâce is a [California] Senate bill that would require the labeling of meat and milk obtained from cloned animals if such products are approved for human consumption....'Clone: It's What's for Dinner,' Dr. Henry I. Miller, TCSDaily.COM, 2/1/2007
If you're looking for pseudoscience and the politics of hysteria, you don't have to go far if you live in California. Just head toward the state capitol. Aping their friends in France, the country California would most like to be apparently, state Senators are pushing what is a green hysteric's movement in Europe, the demonization of cloned and genetically altered products. But, as Dr. Miller points out...
Scientists have known for years that the clones are indistinguishable genetically, biochemically and nutritionally from the parent. As one farmer who owns a pair of clones of a prize-winning Holstein cow observed, they are essentially twins of 'a cow that was already in production.'...(Clone:...continued)
Forty years ago, Dr. Norman Borlaug introduced dramatic changes in the way grains are produced. If the same green hysteria had confronted his techniques, tens of millions of people would starve to death every year. Evidently, with green hysterics, it's not good results that matter, but an imagined natural purity. Dr. Miller suggests a sober examination of what we have eaten for a very long time. No domestic animal, for instance, is remotely similar to the creatures crossbred thousands of years ago to produce domestic sheep and cows. No grains currently in wide production existed in their current form a century ago. Crossbreeding, cross-pollination, and grafting, primitive forms of genetic manipulation, have been at play in human agriculture since it started before the first Egyptian dynasty.
Maybe green is really green, and stands for envy. Nothing seems to offend the greens more than success.
Luther
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