[Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: [GPCA-MediaComm] FINAL/SENDING: NEWS ADVISORY: Greens back cloned-animal labeling bill...]

[Andrea Dorey]

BTW, Wes, did you know that Dolly was not a cloned animal?

She was created by a complete cell from one animal and a cell still  
full of cytoplasm from another animal.  Cytoplasm contributes heavily  
to the development of the new individual.

Also, out of 1000 eggs created, very few actually produced a viable  
fetus, and of those few, only one produced a living "normal" animal.   
All this was not reported by the "creators" of Dolly, so they did not  
follow the usual method of scientific reportage.

The "normal" animal, Dolly, lived a shortened life span.

Andrea

On Apr 12, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:

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> Subject: 	[GPCA-MediaComm] FINAL/SENDING: NEWS ADVISORY: Greens back
> cloned-animal labeling bill...
> Date: 	Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:06:29 -0700
> From: 	civillib at cwnet.com
> To: 	gpca-mediawg at cagreens.org
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> News Advisory
>            THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA       www.cagreens.org
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Wednesday, April 11, 2007
> Contact: Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 funking at mindspring.com
> 	   Dr. Bob Vizzard, spokesperson, 916.206 8953, thevizz at aol.com
> 	   Sara Amir, spokesperson, 310.270-7106 saraamir at earthlink.net
> 	   Cres Vellucci, press secretary, 916.996-9170 civillib at cwnet.com
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> Greens back cloned-animal labeling bill,
> explain measure necessary to protect state
> consumers from ‘potentially dangerous' food
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> SACRAMENTO, Ca. (April 11, 2007) – Green Party environmental  
> specialists
> today voiced support for legislation to mandate clear labels on any  
> food
> derived from a cloned animal or its offspring, and said the bill is  
> in the
> "public interest" and necessary to protect consumers from "potentially
> dangerous" food products.
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> Senate Bill 63, authored by State Senator Carole Migden, D-Marin/San
> Francisco, was approved in the Senate Health Committee Wednesday.
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> "The federal government continues to make it difficult for citizens  
> to know
> what they are putting in their bodies. First, they attacked  
> Proposition 65
> that requires warning labels on products known to contain hazardous
> ingredients, then fought local governments from controlling  
> Genetically
> Engineered Agriculture and now they want to allow growers to hide  
> the fact
> that their animals were cloned," said Wes Rolley, of the Green  
> Party of
> United States Eco-Action Committee.
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> "It is all part of the same plan to keep the public in the dark,"  
> added
> Rolley.
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> "The federal government continues to rubber stamp biotech foods. In  
> 1992,
> over the objections of government scientists, it was decided that
> genetically engineered foods are ‘substantially equivalent' to natural
> foods and do not need to be safety tested or labeled," said Erica
> Martenson, a Napa County Green who works on the GPCA Platform  
> Committee
> regarding food safety issues.
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> "This decision was made despite the agency's own scientists'  
> statements
> that genetically engineered foods are different and carry different  
> risks,
> including allergenicity, toxicity, antibiotic  resistance, nutritional
> problems and cancer. Now, several years later, the FDA is doing the  
> same
> thing with milk and meat from cloned  animals," she added.
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> "These decisions are not in the public interest. Only biotech  
> corporations
> benefit from this lack of  regulation. We need politicians at the  
> state
> level to intervene on behalf of the public by at least mandating  
> that these
> foods be labeled, so that consumers can protect their own health and
> well-being by avoiding these potentially dangerous products,"  
> Martenson said.
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