(( Cloning & Midterms (But Mostly Cloning) ))
16 January 08 - 15:08
These past few days I've been pretty busy studying for my math midterms (that and watching American Idol). I'm alright at Math - I'm not the best at it, but I'm not the worst either. My math midterms are tomorrow - they cover seven chapters! I have really bad memory, too... especially when it comes to schoolwork. It's like I'll remember a math chapter for two weeks and I understand it perfectly and everything makes sense... but if I don't continue to practice the chapter (and I don't exactly like to practice my past math chapters for fun) once those two weeks are up, it's like a buzzer goes off in my head and everything I remembered about that chapter is deleted, like an e-mail or text message.
Except there's no "Trash Can" option for me to pull back that bit of info after it's been deleted.
But that's not the only piece of schoolwork nagging at my mind. There's also that cloning essay that's due. I guess that's not so hard - I'm already halfway done - but check out this recent quote:
“Meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones are as safe as food we eat every day,” said Dr. Stephen Sundloff, FDA’s food safety chief. The article continues here.
Yup, you heard right: cloned animals can be eaten. A lot of people have different views of cloning, which is a big reason my science teacher wanted us to write that essay. We're supposed to base it off our opinions and the dilemna surrounding cloning. I was listening to the radio this morning, and there was this one lady who said that cloned animals really 'wigged her out', which I thought was kind of funny and sounded like she was from the 70s and... never mind - I digress, moving on!
Personally, I don't care if people eat cloned animals or not. That's not to say I'm going to start buying them by the dozen, but it doesn't mean I'm going to boycott them either. In fact, I think cloned livestock would be a wonderful thing to have in third-world countries like India and Africa, where the starving would have an access to a food supply. My history teacher told me that the world has enough food to support our population; it's just the food distribution does not work out very well and places like here in America have too much food for its population whereas Africa has too little food for its population. Yet our world isn't perfect, and this poor food distribution might go on for decades or perhaps even centuries. But if we had cloned livestock in those third-world countries, food would be distributed and less children around the world would go to bed with a starving belly.
Plus, since the FDA have approved it, that must mean it's safe to eat. That's just my take on it. What's yours?
Don’t tell my mom- she might just freak out- just like she did with those mexican hard candy balls (You know, the ones with the chile powder center).
Claire M. - 16 01 08 - 16:37
:) Lol. I asked my sister and my dad if they were willing to eat it, and they said yes. However, my mom disagreed, like yours – she thinks something about eating cloned animals just seems wrong. Although she’s on the borderline about those mexican hard candy balls ;)
Pema - 18 01 08 - 14:46
ewwwwwwwwwww! thats disgusting, i would never eat a cloned animal!
p.s great blog Pema!
mehwish () - 23 01 08 - 16:03
