Clones fit for consumption

The FDA has finally approved the use of meat from cloned animals for human consumption as long as the animal and its "offspring" are healthy. The "final risk assesment" has been obtained by the Washington Post. The assesment states that the decision to allow the use of clones for food is strictly a "scientific-based evaluation" and does not take into consideration "moral, religious or ethical concerns" because the FDA is not permitted, by law, to take these issues under consideration. As of today, the farm animal industry leaders are not planning to slaughter or milk the pricey cloned animals, but to instead use them for further breeding in an attempt to harvest a genetically perfected animal. The FDA also states that they do not plan to require cloned meats to be labeled as such.

Reading Suggestions for Winter Break

Just in case you have time to fit in a good book over the break; but you don't want anything heavy or scholarly, let me suggest my top 7 easy, but good, reads.

1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
2. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
3. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
4. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
5. Mightier that the Sword by Rodger Streitmater
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
7. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Partial Fact or Semi- Fiction

Today, November 30, 2007, there were concerns raised about Rudy Giuliani's use of statistics as part of his presidential campaigning tactics. There have been reports that many of the statistics used by Giuliani addressing New Yorks crime rate and budget and that of his opponents for example, have been skewed, incomplete and/or flat out wrong. For their part, Giuliani campaign staffers assert that challenging Giuliani on this is just "nitpicking" and "at the end of the day, he is making points that are true."
On a side note, Giuliani is not alone in stating statistics that may not be entirely factual. Last month, Senator Clinton said that financing for the National Institutes of Health had gone down under President Bush; when in fact it has increased. Also,Senator Obama stated the national debt had doubled under President Bush; it hasn't.

What This Blog is About

This page is geared toward people who are busy. People who don't have time to sit and read a newspaper, or even an e-zine from cover to cover. They need to know what relevant things are happening in news, sports, politics, current events and fashion. They are just like me. I, am just like you.