Am I Living in a Poorly Written Science Fiction Novel?

My favorite book of the year--and I'm not alone in this--was Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma.  It's a fantastic book that flips the mental switches governing how you think about food and the production of food.    

It does not contemplate today's news that the FDA has approved cloned food without any requirement that it be labeled as such. That's just obviously wrong.

What a weird damn world.

 

Fantastic photo (as always) from Matt Bites.  (He kicks ass)

Comments

[trevor]

What I don't understand is why producers would want to sell cloned meat. What's the financial advantage? Isn't cloning a lot more expensive than just allowing animals to do what they want to do anyway; i.e., reproduce? Is there a perceived genetic advantage?

[SJ]

But look, they put the beef’s lineage on the package -- "From Bessie via Gladys via Maybelle via Lucille via Dottie" -- so if you want you can recite the line of decent like a little prayer before you eat your burger. How kind!