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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!

# 27,300:

2:35 pm PST, Jan 17, Stephanie Fleming, Virginia

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2:34 pm PST, Jan 17, T Smith, Georgia

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2:05 pm PST, Jan 17, Michael Stuart, Illinois

# 27,297:

2:00 pm PST, Jan 17, Lanara Roell, Texas

# 27,296:

1:49 pm PST, Jan 17, Irene Parks, Florida
I am totally against ANYTHING that is cloned. Thank heavens I chose VEGAN eating.

# 27,295:

1:47 pm PST, Jan 17, Matthew Perlegis, Florida

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1:41 pm PST, Jan 17, Joseph Werzinski, Pennsylvania

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1:38 pm PST, Jan 17, Amberlee SHATZER, Maryland

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1:27 pm PST, Jan 17, Jean Thorsen, Connecticut

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1:24 pm PST, Jan 17, Vic Kern, Oklahoma

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1:24 pm PST, Jan 17, J. WARCUP, Massachusetts
WE NEED REAL MILK NO THE KIND OF MILK FROM A CLONE. FOR IF IT WENT THRU . WHO KNOWS WE WILL END UP HAVING A BUG OR A MANY OF THEM TO GET SICK LATER.

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1:21 pm PST, Jan 17, James Vinson, Alabama

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1:17 pm PST, Jan 17, Patty Diana, Arizona

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1:17 pm PST, Jan 17, Hanne Bille, Malta

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1:16 pm PST, Jan 17, Tia Hilkert, Wisconsin

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1:12 pm PST, Jan 17, Annika Isaksson, Sweden

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1:11 pm PST, Jan 17, Heidi York, Michigan
I think we need to focus on the food that we already consume as to cloned foods. We live in a cancer ridden society, why don't we place the money we have spent on cloning into creating cures for the problems we already have instead of creating new problems.

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1:11 pm PST, Jan 17, Michelle Lindstrom, New Hampshire

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1:05 pm PST, Jan 17, Susan Hopper, Missouri

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12:48 pm PST, Jan 17, Roberta Odell, New Hampshire
that is digusting!!!!!!

# 27,280:

12:38 pm PST, Jan 17, Erika O., Pennsylvania

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12:31 pm PST, Jan 17, Claudia Herrera, Mexico

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12:30 pm PST, Jan 17, Alicia Smith, Illinois

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12:28 pm PST, Jan 17, Andrew Yeager, Nebraska

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12:25 pm PST, Jan 17, Erika Kreider, Arizona

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12:23 pm PST, Jan 17, Wanja Velthuis, Netherlands

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12:22 pm PST, Jan 17, D Redman, Minnesota

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12:22 pm PST, Jan 17, Natalie Batovsky, Maryland

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12:15 pm PST, Jan 17, Twik Simms, California

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12:13 pm PST, Jan 17, Jan McCall, Wisconsin
Clearly, the time is now to go vegetarian.

# 27,270:

12:11 pm PST, Jan 17, Elizabeth Karan, California

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12:10 pm PST, Jan 17, Carlos Oropeza, New Jersey

# 27,268:

12:08 pm PST, Jan 17, Michael Gaunt, Massachusetts

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12:07 pm PST, Jan 17, Natasha Shpiller, Illinois
Labeling is a must to let consumers know what's in their food!

# 27,266:

12:07 pm PST, Jan 17, Gustavo Godoy, Florida

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12:06 pm PST, Jan 17, C Cockrell, Texas

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11:50 am PST, Jan 17, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
I don't think this meat will be safe and I'm not eating any red meat until this has stopped .

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11:48 am PST, Jan 17, Michael Story, Oregon
we don't n\know what they've been doing they may have been testing and we get the effects of it.

# 27,262:

11:45 am PST, Jan 17, Leslie Coon, Colorado

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11:37 am PST, Jan 17, Steve Goldstein, Oregon
The executive branch is acting in violation of the instructions of congress and the will of the voting public. Act now to prevent the introduction of cloned foods into the food supply and to insure that all cloned foodstuffs are clearly labeled.

# 27,260:

11:33 am PST, Jan 17, Dan Trent, Texas

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11:31 am PST, Jan 17, Bill Tompkins, California
That scares the hell out of me!

# 27,258:

11:30 am PST, Jan 17, Sheree Tompkins, California
It's not nice to fool with mother nature! I think there is wisdom in these words.

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11:29 am PST, Jan 17, Joann Haukereid, New Mexico

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11:17 am PST, Jan 17, Dereck Noyes, Washington

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11:16 am PST, Jan 17, Denise Cruz-Castino, California

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11:01 am PST, Jan 17, Jan Stolquist, Florida

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10:55 am PST, Jan 17, Dale Pease, New Mexico

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10:55 am PST, Jan 17, MARILYN HAGAN, Texas

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10:52 am PST, Jan 17, Lisa Mangieri, New Jersey

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