lunes, noviembre 16

Consumo de alimentos provenientes de animales clonados

Como hemos visto y escuchado Estados Unidos es de los primeros países en aceptar la carne de animales clonados pues la FDA asegura que estos alimentos no tienen diferencia alguna con los animales criados convencionalmente. Sabemos que para que esto sucediera pasaron años de investigación y pruebas con este tipo de animales y los alimentos que producen, pero en lo que es la población de Estados Unidos y otros países creo que la gente aun no está lista para consumir alimento que provienen de dicho animales pues como hemos visto en noticias, periódicos y en internet estos animales muchas veces suelen hacer daño a la salud humana perjudicándonos a largo plazo y sin saber aun los remedios o soluciones que se necesiten para estos casos.

Otra controversia sobre este tema es, si ya se acepto el consumo de estos alimentos muchas personas quieren que se etiqueten a los productos diciendo su procedencia , discriminándolos y ocasionando un temor entre la gente, pues al ver que se etiquetan es porque son diferentes cuando según la FDA son iguales, esto hará un problema en el mercado y en la agricultura pues el avance que se ha hecho se vendrá abajo por cuestiones del consumidor. En mi opinión aun noestamos preparados para consumir este tipo de alimentos, sin antes estar conscientes de alguna manera ya sea por experimentos con otros animales o en laboratorios que este tipo de alimentos no tienen repercusiones a corto, mediano o largo plazo para nuestra salud, y por mientras esos animales podrían ser usados para otras actividades que sean necesarias sin utilizar a los animales naturales.
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2 comentarios:

Nancy dijo...

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In the world today technology seems present in almost every aspect such as animals and those animals are then eaten by the human species. Then again is it healthy to consume cloned organisms?
Cloned organisms are not something recent in history before Dolly came about.In 1952 the first animal was cloned the tadpole. Ever since Dolly a number of species have been cloned as well. For example, sheep, pigs, goats, rabbits, and cows. Many scientists said "cloning animals for food has uncertain benefits, many drawbacks." This being the year 2006 in which Dr. Margaret Mellon the director of UCS's food and Environment Program. Stated "Although the products of cloned animals and their progeny will almost likely be safe for human consumption, we would like to see more comprehensive studies specifically designed to examine food safety". Then procedures we're taken to lift a voluntary moratorium to the consumers until the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did more comprehensive reviews on the food products of cloned animals and their offspring to know the potential risks that could occur.
In the year 2008 the FDA released news concerning the safety of food from animal clones and concluded that normal bred animals just like cloned animals are safe to eat. Basically because they are not altered or in other words no new genes have are added to them. The ones that are altered are the genetically engineered and not clones. For example, a cow that has been cloned would not necessarily be identical in every way, but in the milk production process it will because it's just done to perform the same task as the earlier version. In general cloning is done to be utilized as elite breeding animals and introduce desirable traits into herds which can be faster than regular breeding. In January the FDA issued three documents about animal cloning standing out the risk assessment, the management and guidance for industry.
Clones will not be introduced into the market in vast quantities. Yet, at this moment the FDA continues to recommend that food from clones of species other than swine , goat and cattle should not be introduced into the food supply. That the transition is going to be made once the world is prepared, but it would not be labeled (clone free) only in certain cases to follow guidelines. Basically in the future the number of cloned animal products will increase since no real potential threat has been found with cloned animals. Also, because science based conclusions agree with those of the National Academy of Sciences release in a 2002 report.


References:
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2008/ucm116836.htm

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/scientists-say-cloning.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/business/29fda.html

Abril López dijo...

Los consumidores americanos y europeos tampoco están convencidos, según las últimas encuestas, que muestran que la mayoría no compraria para ingerir animales procedentes de clones. Por lo que podemos ver que no solo los ciudadanos de paises primer mundistas estan temerosos sobre el tema de consumir animales clonados.