SEND IN THE CLONES.. Attack of the clones. But we're allowed to be attacked. The green light to cloned meat given by the Food and Drug Administration.. Don't you feel better now? The United States Department of Agriculture does not! The USDA is telling farmers not to put their clones on the market!

Bruce I. Knight, the USDA's undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs, requested an ongoing "voluntary moratorium" to buy time for "an acceptance process" that Knight said consumers in the United States and abroad will need, "given the emotional nature of this issue."

Should we really have an acceptance process for our food!? Should a different brand be an "emotional" change of nature? When dealing with clones yes. I guess there's no other way of describing it. Gone are the days of the small town butcher slaughtering animals and grinding leftovers from one animal into hamburgers.. Here are the days of mass produced slaughterhouses in which cows, chickens, and pigs are fattened up, shackled away for their short life, and cut up in blood vats. Here are the days of one hamburger containing the meat of more than a hundred, maybe a thousand animals.. And the only way we can go from here is further down the road to hell. Cloned meats. Cloned cows. Cloned chickens. We'll never run out. Every bite of your cloned T-Bone steak .. Mmmmmmmm..

More from the POST: Executives from the nation's major cattle cloning companies conceded yesterday that they have not been able to keep track of how many offspring of clones have entered the food supply, despite a years-old request by the FDA to keep them off the market pending completion of the agency's safety report.

Great! We're not even sure. Fries with that? Shouldn't food be food? Shouldn't we be able to treat our animals at least with a little respect.. I know we're carnivorous by nature. And I enjoy a good steak, grilled to perfection, or chicken Marsala, or even pork ribs.. But really..how they get to my plate isn't right. The free roaming farms of yesteryear are just thought: Gone and quickly becoming forgotten. The interesting thing about the USDA's wording that we need to slowly put the clones into the market is that they seem to realize something important about marketing and people: Incremental steps to hell seem to be much better than the giant leap for mankind.

PHOTO: REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY)

Labels: chemicals, Cloning, Meat