A couple of weeks ago, I came across an ad on a web page for Cyclone Dairy. Go check it out. I'll wait.
Okay.
When I looked at it, it looked totally real and did not have that fancy video that comes up to tell you the truth. I was thouroughly horrified.
SeriouslyareyoukiddingmewhatingtheWORLD????
I thought it looked like it was fresh out of Minority Report or Gattica. Creepy.
Being a raw milker, traditional foodie, this was just too much for me. I groaned in agony and crawled to the fridge where I gulped down a glass of nice, cold, RAW Guernsey milk that I get from my neighbors.
So today, I was so relieved to get this in my email from the Center for Food Safety:
Were you one of the thousands of people appalled at a new dairy company, “CyClone Dairy,” selling milk from cloned cows? April Fools! Ben & Jerry's launched this fictitious dairy company - selling milk made from 100% cloned cows in March 2009. CyClone Dairy isn't real, but it could be! In January 2008, the U.S Food and Drug Administration declared milk and meat from cloned animals safe for human consumption, allowing cloned food products to enter the U.S. food supply.
We believe you should have the right to choose which foods you eat - and not to eat cloned foods if you don't want to. And that's why CFS and companies like Ben & Jerry’s believe we need a national clone tracking system, so people and companies can know where their food is coming from.
Not that it isn't something in the pipes, but at least it isn't here just yet. And hooray for Ben and Jerry's!
I need some ice cream...
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I read about this somewhere recently and didn't think more deeply than "gross" as it was totally believable and in step with the times.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm used to reading crap and have gotten jaded.
Holy cow! Literally. I will do all I can to stop this. There is absolutely no reason for our society to go in this direction when we already have lovely wholesome cows to produce lovely wholesome milk.
ReplyDeletei got that email today too. but i hadn't heard about the cyclone dairy. the scary truth here is that once they begin pumping out the cloned milk it won't be as easy to identify as this ficticious cyclone 'milk'. my understanding is that it will be in common circulation- unless we make it known that we want to KNOW where our food comes from. truth in labeling, people!!!
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