One of the most current controversial subjects in the news today is the topic of cloned meat. The thought of this may not be sitting easy with many Americans.

One of the main issues with cloned meat is if it does make it into our markets and does some how become successful, the FDA has not decided if it will be labeled differently from the other meats.

Whole Foods and Wild Oats have recently made statements saying, no to cloned meat products. They say that the consumers have the right to know what they are buying.

One would not even want to fathom the possibility of this. People may stop eating meat all together if they decided not to label it.

Another issue with cloning is that there are many health risks involved to animals, including death. But the FDA does not approve things concerning to the animals’ health, but to people’s health.

The FDA will put its seal of approval on cloned meat, regardless of what the effects will have on the animals.

Recently, six people in California agreed to participate in a cloned beef study. A diner in Los Angeles hosted the debut of the cloned meat by holding a party in which the main course was cloned meat. No one was told which was regular and which was cloned. After all was said and done, nobody could tell the difference. But questions of health risks did arise, though.

Other recent rises on the food front is the production of genetically modified foods.

If you are not certain what this is, it is crops that the U.S. grows that are genetically altered either for nutritional reasons, for the decrease in pesticide use and an increase in crop yields.

A good example of genetically modified food is rice. Rice lacks Vitamin A and now scientists have developed a gene that will produce the missing vitamin. We call this new rice golden rice. Strange, huh?

These GMO’s could help or hurt our crop production. There are some risks that may go along with them, such as uncontrolled cross-pollination, super weeds, other countries no longer wanting to import our foods, super pests, unknown responses to these new foods, and new allergies.

There are so many new advances in our technology, but some things are so new no one knows what the possible outcomes of these things may be.

After this cloning thing, who knows what could be next.