{"id":4275,"date":"2010-11-26T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2010-11-26T22:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:15:23","slug":"probably-not-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4275","title":{"rendered":"Probably not  bad for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/HerefordBull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4276\" title=\"HerefordBull\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/HerefordBull-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HerefordBull-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HerefordBull.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the way the cautionary words of the government&#8217;s Chief Scientist are either being translated in, or ignored by, the media.<\/p>\n<p>What Andrew Wadge actually said was (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;The committee (Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes) has confirmed that meat from cloned cattle (and the offspring of cloned cattle) shows <em>no substantial<\/em> difference to conventionally produced meat and milk and therefore it is <em>unlikely <\/em>to present a food safety risk.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it possible to squeeze more caveats in to one sentence?<\/p>\n<p>But the scary thing is that this sentence effectively opens the way for cloned meat to be sold, unlabelled as cloned meat, in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>After what length of testing?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 year?<\/li>\n<li>2 years?<\/li>\n<li>5 years?<\/li>\n<li>10 years?<\/li>\n<li>25 years?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Six months.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s comforting, isn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s less testing than Thalidomide had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the way the cautionary words of the government&#8217;s Chief Scientist are either being translated in, or ignored by, the media. What Andrew Wadge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}