Quantum


HEALTH


Issue 8 December 2010


The Franken Burger


In 1818, Mary Shelley’s fictitious character Dr Victor Frankenstein illustrated both the capacity of man’s self centered genius and his innate ability for self destruction. The obsessed driven Dr Victor Frankenstein takes on the role of ‘creator’, overriding nature by using stolen body parts from graves to genetically create a new hybrid being.


Sound familiar? In 2010 Shelley’s horror fantasy has become a reality, with cloning very much at the forefront of news. It is a topic that riles the hair on the back of many people. Responding to objections and demanding more clarification of health results; the European Economic Community (EEC) has recently stepped in and proposed a five year ban on the sale of meats and byproducts from cloned animals.


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A study conducted in 2008 by the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) found that an overwhelming majority of consumers do not want cloned food on their plates. The majority considering it to be a ‘dangerous manipulation of nature and potentially harmful.’


This was the result reported on in the FSA study: “Animal Cloning and Implications for the Food Chain”. which was conducted by a team of analysts at Creative Research. Its Director; Dr Steve Griggs said, made the following statement: “The more consumers learned about cloning, the greater and more widespread were the objections.”


The report oulined how participants in the study struggled to identify any convincing benefits of


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