Another Omnivore Dilemma

The US Food & Drug Administration has now approved the consumption of food from cloned animals and their offspring. That’s the bad news. (Australia does produce cloned cattle, but sensibly, we don’t eat it). And what’s more those cloned animals may well be eating Genetically Modified feed. Did we learn nothing from CJD?

The good news is that Australian organic meat producers may benefit with increased exports to the USA. Australia has the world’s largest organic certified land area in the world (nearly 12 million hectares at the time of writing, or 29,652,645 acres, for the imperialists amongst us). But therein lies the dilemma. Aren’t we trying to eat local? Now if we export it, it won’t be us that’s eating it, so we can continue to eat as local as we wish, but then we’ll we seen to be not supporting the locavore movement, by sending it all that way across the sea. And if it’s lamb, are we going to export it live? It does my proverbial head it.

And of course, NASA is investigating grow ‘meat’ in a petrie dish. It doesn’t get much more local than that. The way that scenario could play out is you just buy your meat cells in a pack, and grow it at home, next to the fresh herbs, and while the bread’s baking.