Genetically engineered animals – the wave of the future – WTF

One of today’s headlines reads “FDA proposes approval process for genetically engineered animals.”  Sub-headline, “The regulations would treat the creatures like drugs.  Critics fear that environmental concerns aren’t being given proper weight.”

WTF

That’s fucking scary!!!  One on hand, I guess it’s good that they’ll be regulated but on the other WTF?!  The thought of the whole thing is creepy.  We’ll be eating genetically engineered animals and fish -wow, and this opens the door for genetically engineering others…like maybe humans?

Well, we’ve been fucking up the balance of nature for quite some time so I guess this is our most recent contribution to the destruction of life as we know it…and eventually life period.

Hell, the FDA can’t properly regulate drugs – how can they be trusted to properly regulate genetically engineered animals?  Ugh.  New drugs are way too frequently recalled because of the side effects.  Now we’ll be eating an unnatural animal for 5 years before they realize it’s fucking people up and recall it while it’s altered yet some more.  Great.  Fabulous.  Can’t wait to eat one!

And what makes me feel even better about it is the way they reference the animals:

The Food and Drug Administration today opened the way for a bevy of genetically engineered salmon, cows and other animals to leap from the laboratory to the marketplace, unveiling an approval process that would treat the modified creatures like drugs.

Catfish!

MODIFIED CREATURES!  Nice.  Oh yeah AND they’re going to keep the approval process a secret from the public.  Great, I can’t even know the approval process of the modified creatures I’ll be eating so that I can check it out more and weigh how I feel about it…never mind just ‘know’ what approval process my dinner is going through – or not going through.  Love it.

Some may think statements like:

One company, for example, has produced a cow that is not susceptible to mad cow disease.

would make you feel a little better maybe because now we don’t have to worry about mad cow disease…ummm no, doesn’t make me feel better at all.  All that statement does for me is reiterrate the fact that the damn animals are NOT FUCKING NATURAL.

And then there’s this:

Some would serve as sources for organs for human transplants, expanding the small pool of donor organs now available.

OMG!

And hell, cloned animals are already safe so no need to worry there per the following statement:

The new regulations do not cover cloned animals, most pets and research animals. Clones are genetic replicas of existing animals, and the FDA has already determined that they are safe.

This is all very unsettling and it’s nice to know that we generally won’t even know when we’re eating a genetically engineered animal – that’s fucked up, I have the right to know if my lunch is natural or not!

You can read the full article here.  What are your thoughts?  If you ask me, FDA stands for Fucking Dumb Asses!  I trust them to decide which drugs and animals are safe as much as I trust my magic 8 ball to decide!