Yeah, i noticed that item...

As a former adman, i can tell you that every new product has a panel of examiners that weigh the pros and cons of releasing it to and on the public. Atomic energy is the first example of something that got a bad rap from the outset, (it was bomb first before it was an energy source) and it has been a hard sell ever since. So now the public is only informed about the 'cons'-- the good news.

I don't think cloned meat is any different. Down the road the downside will be impossible to hide. The answer to the world's food shortage isn't more science. How about giving back to the soil what it slaves to give us all the time? The Hebrews had the tradition of the jubilee, where every seventh year nothing was planted so that the soil could replenish.

I love how the debate on what this is actually about is obscured by making it all about human health.

How about we get the media talking about this: the entire Western food system is based on an increasingly genetically impoverished base of about twenty species. Cloning only further genetically impoverishes our food sources. In the meantime, we are eradicating hundreds of other amazing, beautiful, strange species in order to promote our own survival and growth, ultimately in some subconscious quest to eliminate human death.

Talk about your shadow coming to bite you in the ass.