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Stop Cloned Food - Act Today!

Target: U.S. Senate
Sponsored by: Care2

After a cursory review, the Food and Drug Administration is poised to allow milk and meat from cloned animals into the food supply, without any labeling. Clones could soon be the food on your table, and you would never know it.

A majority of cloned animals never make it to adulthood due to birth defects and disease. Most sicken and die before they reach their first birthday. With weak immune systems, they contract infections requiring antibiotic treatment. Overuse of antibiotics already contributes to the rise of antibiotic resistant strains.

But we have a chance to make the FDA reconsider. A proposed amendment to the Farm Bill would keep cloned food off the market until the FDA fully considers some of the things you care about -- safety, animal health and public health.

Tell your Senators to support the Mikulski amendment to the Farm Bill -- because cloned food should be proven safe for humans and animals before it's on our tables!

deadline: 11-7-2008
goal: 25,000
 

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Unfortunately -- with very little data to go on -- the FDA has decided that milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring are safe to eat.

Soon, the livestock industry could be shipping these items to your supermarket with no labeling. So please continue to take action on this important food safety issue:

Ask your Senator to co-sponsor the Cloned Food Labeling Act today!



Dear Senator [Name]:

As a consumer, I am deeply concerned about the possibility that cloned milk and meat may soon be sold in my supermarket without even any labeling. I won't be able to decide whether I want my family to eat food from clones. This is being forced on me.

A majority of cloned animals never make it to adulthood due to birth defects and disease. Most sicken and die before they reach their first birthdays. With weak immune systems, they contract infections requiring antibiotic treatment. Overuse of antibiotics already contributes to the rise of antibiotic resistant strains.

I am therefore asking you to contact Senators Harkin and Chambliss and request that they include Senator Mikulski's amendment (#3524) in the manager's package of the Farm Bill (HR 2419). This amendment will require FDA to do additional and essential analysis of human safety, animal health and economic impacts of cloning before they allow it to be put on the market. FDA has not considered all the relevant facts so far.

Consumers count on having access to safe and wholesome food. We appreciate your efforts to maintain consumer choice and safe food in the marketplace.

[Your Comments]

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
We signed the “Stop Cloned Food - Act Today!” petition!
# 150:
10:33 pm PST, Nov 8, Adam Silber, Georgia
I have been forced to drink soy milk and only organic milk. Its a shame regular milk is so toxic. The uniformed suffer as a result
# 149:
10:25 pm PST, Nov 8, Mike Stanley, Illinois
# 148:
10:23 pm PST, Nov 8, Willow White, Idaho
# 147:
10:17 pm PST, Nov 8, Dick Artley, Idaho
The safety of human consumption of products from cloned animals is worse than inconclusive ... it's unknown. Corporate America will not allow safety testing, because the fear the worst. Animals are being cloned for the market by corporate agriculture for 1 reason: BIG money.
# 146:
10:17 pm PST, Nov 8, Lee Fremault, Rhode Island
# 145:
10:11 pm PST, Nov 8, Jean Wollenweber, Oregon
just because we can do something it doesn't follow that we should do it. It sounds like cloned animals are not healthy animals and for sure should not be passed off without anyone knowing more about the facts. no cloned animals please.
# 144:
10:11 pm PST, Nov 8, Nancy Calsbeek, California
# 143:
10:09 pm PST, Nov 8, Amy Griffin, Pennsylvania
# 142:
10:00 pm PST, Nov 8, Bridget Cain, California
i already drink organic milk & want to continue to move forward in the health of the milk i drink & the health of the animals that it comes from. cloned is not natural, NOT organic, nor does it seem healthy.
# 141:
9:57 pm PST, Nov 8, Lisa Harrell, Kentucky
# 140:
9:57 pm PST, Nov 8, Michael Frey, California
# 139:
9:55 pm PST, Nov 8, Frances O'Brien, Oregon
# 138:
9:42 pm PST, Nov 8, Isabel Esparza, Florida
# 137:
9:41 pm PST, Nov 8, James Hall, Texas
# 136:
9:41 pm PST, Nov 8, Bess Katerinsky, New York
# 135:
9:41 pm PST, Nov 8, Brian Lackner, Oregon
# 134:
9:31 pm PST, Nov 8, Jon Roth, California
# 133:
9:28 pm PST, Nov 8, Diane Sullivan, Washington
# 132:
9:27 pm PST, Nov 8, Mitch Chase, California
# 131:
9:21 pm PST, Nov 8, Curt Schmidt, New Jersey
# 130:
9:19 pm PST, Nov 8, Christine K, New York
# 129:
9:19 pm PST, Nov 8, Name not displayed, Oregon
# 128:
9:10 pm PST, Nov 8, Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 127:
9:10 pm PST, Nov 8, Doddie Amella, New Jersey
# 126:
9:09 pm PST, Nov 8, Lisa Niermann, Colorado
# 125:
9:05 pm PST, Nov 8, Name not displayed, New York
# 124:
8:55 pm PST, Nov 8, Name not displayed, Tennessee
# 123:
8:53 pm PST, Nov 8, Luis Vega, New York
# 122:
8:48 pm PST, Nov 8, Charles Kuyper, Illinois
# 121:
8:40 pm PST, Nov 8, Edward Fritz, California
# 120:
8:40 pm PST, Nov 8, Kenna Sommer, North Carolina
# 119:
8:39 pm PST, Nov 8, Karen Emanuelson, Colorado
There is too much we don't know about cloned food to just release it into the general population with no warning.
# 118:
8:38 pm PST, Nov 8, David Emanuel, New York
I have no desire to participate in the science experiments of big business. The long term effects of cloning and GMOs are not known and have not been effectively researched. Please say no to cloned food.
# 117:
8:35 pm PST, Nov 8, Teresita Garza, Florida
# 116:
8:33 pm PST, Nov 8, Kellie Burgess, Ohio
# 115:
8:30 pm PST, Nov 8, April Jarvis, West Virginia
# 114:
8:30 pm PST, Nov 8, Cara Douglass, California
It is really disturbing to think that ANYONE would be okay with eating cloned IE FAKE food!Think about it....what then would you be eating??
# 113:
8:28 pm PST, Nov 8, Brian Archer, Colorado
# 112:
8:27 pm PST, Nov 8, Sahara Gonzalez, New York
# 111:
8:26 pm PST, Nov 8, Tara Carlisle, Florida
# 110:
8:25 pm PST, Nov 8, Carol A. Weiner, California
# 109:
8:24 pm PST, Nov 8, Name not displayed, New York
# 108:
8:20 pm PST, Nov 8, Summer Spinks, Oregon
# 107:
8:10 pm PST, Nov 8, Timara Motley, Virginia
# 106:
8:06 pm PST, Nov 8, Meghan Lefferts, New York
# 105:
8:05 pm PST, Nov 8, Justin Malick, Pennsylvania
# 104:
8:04 pm PST, Nov 8, SHARYN BROUGHTON, Texas
I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE CLONED FOODS PRESENTED TO ME WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE.
# 103:
8:04 pm PST, Nov 8, Chris MacKrell, California
# 102:
8:03 pm PST, Nov 8, Lynnette Smith, Arizona
It should be proven safe BEFORE it is put on our tables and given to our kids.
# 101:
8:02 pm PST, Nov 8, Joshua Heffron, New York
Are You Crazy NO way In Hell will Accepted Cloned Food!!!!!! Use YOur head Not your ass!!!
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