Summary Response

< It is Time to Support our Food. >

First, the author introduces the topic of eating clone food and mentions that U.S. FDA, Food and Drug Administration, and EFSA, European Food Safety Authority, are going to permit cloned food to be sold to consumers. Second, he gives background on GM foods. He explains European and Americans have different opinions, but both want labels on GM food. Next, the author asks if cloned food is dangerous for people or not. Today, cloning is the newest and the best tool for reproduction. This is because an elite cow can net $100,000 dollars. That is the type of cow that farmers want to clone and reproduce. Also, clones show higher chances of being retarded, but the milk and the meat are the same. Finally, new research causes fears about cloning. In this article, it is very visible that the author agrees the eating cloned food and emphasizes good points of cloned food. The author’s point should be supported because of many reasons. Even America and European have different opinions of cloned food gives permits to sell cloned food to consumers because clone food is completely safe to eat. Cloned food makes the people and the world without concern and illness and should be the first step to grow the positive expectations of the future.

First, cloning food can remove many problems of the world. Today, many people in LCDs, less developed countries, are dieing because of not enough food. This is not right. Everybody has a right to enjoy their life even if they were born in LCD. Cloning is the way we can use to solve this problem. However, LCDs are not the only places that have to worry about having plenty of food. Unfortunately, the world population is a huge number that people can not imagine. Moreover, there are many predictions that population will keep growing more than now. “In population growth over human history” the author (2006) predicts “Anyone who examined world population growth over the past two centuries certainly must be astounded and quite possible alarmed. The global population reached one billion in 1804. In 1927, some 123 years later, it passed two billion. …. An eventual world population of 8 – 12 billion is expected by the end of the century” (para. 22). This large increase in world population will cause many more places and people to not have food. Therefore, our research and food engineering must continue to advance. Cloning is the next step in our research and food engineering.

Second, people could be healthier. Cloned food has better quality. Gogoi (n.d.) says “Farmers can choose to reproduce cows guaranteed to produce the highest-quality steaks. How? At the slaughterhouse, where the determination of grade is decided, workers can harvest genetic material from prime steaks – the highest grade, which currently accounts for just 2 % of all beef” (para.2). If the butcher can choose the best conditions of animals, then we can eat the best food. People do not want to spend their money to have low quality food. However, as many people know, there are already lots of experiments about whether cloned food is safe or not. According to FDA (2008), Food and Drug Administration, the meat and milk from cloning cow and sheep are safe. It is good to have a wise attitude about food, but cloned food does not have to be one of our concerns anymore.

Third, eating cloned food will be the first step to develop our future. People have many misconceptions about clone animals. Even though clone food has been considered safe by different organization, such as the FDA, some people still do not want to eat it. If we cannot break a small misconception, there is no room for improvement in our future. With a higher population in the future it will take a lot more money and food to feed everybody. World hunger is basic problem and clone food is the best solution to world hunger. If we do not have to worry about world hunger, we can then focus on other problems and make the world better.

In conclusion, we should accept to eat clone food because cloned food makes the people and world without concern and illness and should be the first step to grow the positive expectations pf the future. Every angle you examine it from, eating clone food is absolutely reasonable. Now, it is the time to support our bright food future.



References

FDA OKs meat, milk from most cloned animals (January 15, 2008). CNN.com Retrieved February 19, 2008, from http://www.cnn.com

Gogoi, P. (n.d.). Open your mind to cloned food. Business Week. Retrieved February 19, 2008, from http://www.businessweek.com

Guterl, F. (January 18, 2008). Would you like fries with your clone? Newsweek.com Retrieved February 5, 2008, from http://www.newsweek.com

Population growth over human history (January 4, 2006). Retrieved February 19, 2008, from http://www.globalchange.umich.edu