i think that while genetically altered foods and cloned meats are thusfar safe and are probably entirely safe for consumption, we can't know that a) these foods won't cause harm to a person or their offspring later in life, and b) cloning (large scale) and to a larger extent genetic engineering won't cause effects to the ecosystem. genetic engineering scares me because we have no way of knowing how those modified plants/animals will reproduce and evolve under different situations, and the slightest change in the natural order can become a huge problem fast. butterfly effect/chaos theory/whatever, it happens. large scale cloning has many of the same problems... the animals' waste may be different, for instance, or not different enough, and in huge feedlots that problem is hugely magnified.
like i said, i think it's probably safe. but it's potential danger scares the hell out of me. i very much hope cloned meat carries a warning label. but then, i don't think genetically modified food carries one...
the only instance where i think genetic engineering is worth the risk is the development of grown medicine... they have tomatoes grown with some sort of medicine (don't remember what), it can be cultivated as both food for impoverished nations and very inexpensive medicine to treat them. tho this carries political risk, i won't get into that...
pnw
