Are you ready for cloned meat? Unfortunately, you have no choice.

Ben Paynter's "The Other Other White Meat," makes the reader aware that it is possible they have eaten cloned meat without knowing it. Supporters of cloned meat believe that “God gave man dominion over animals,” which has led to the entrance of clones into our food chain. Many farmers want to maintain the beneficial traits that their current animals posses, and in order to do so they turn to artificial cloning. While we hear about all these tight regulations of the FDA, where are they in their stand against cloned meat? In 2002, the FDA described cloned meat “as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals,” but at the same time requested to keep these products out of supermarkets. But why does the FDA care about keeping cloned meat out of supermarkets, if there isn’t any harm with consumption?

The scary part of this issue is the FDA’s inability to police the regulation of cloned meat into our food system. Paynter’s trial of cloned products revealed that he couldn’t tell the different between the traditionally raised meat and the artificial product. Since consumer’s cannot tell, “the likelihood that anyone could credibly say ‘our animals are not descended from clones’ is zero.” While different public health groups ask the FDA to ban the artificial cloning of animals, the FDA has little control over this. Besides seeing the health problems with the cloned animals, such as sudden death syndrome, there hasn’t been enough time or research to evaluate the effects of artificial meat on humans. If eating cloned animals have the ability to make the consumers sick, who is responsible for fixing this issue?