Cloned meat

I received the following in an email today and I don't think I agree with it. Do you?

"The big meat companies of the Midwest

is now trying to join the FDA so that they can

sell their cloned meat (beef, pork, chicken, etc.)

and not have to use the word cloned on the

label or ingredients’ list.

This is real scary because we do not know the effects

this will have on us,
our children, or our children’s children.

The FDA is one of the most corrupt institutions this
country has today."

They left off one major aspect of their "opinion" - the facts. Some facts. Any facts. One fact of how this cloned meat could hurt us. I need facts. Maybe the information is out there and I haven't read enough to find these "facts". For all I know (and the public as well) I could already be eating cloned meat. If the FDA is so corrupt, why should I believe that they are stopping cloned meat from being processed.
Someone please tell me why cloned meat would be any different than the original animal meat.

I believe there is some corruption in almost any organization - big or small. If you don't believe that then you are blind, my friend. And unless I have some facts, I say "what's wrong with eating cloned meat?"

And that's MY opinion! Prove me wrong.

The Preakness

Just had to post this for us horse lovers. June 9, 2007, the third leg of the Triple Crown, The Preakness, was run and although there will be no Triple Crown winner this year . . . . the Preakness was won by a filly named Rags-To-Riches. It is the first time in 102 years that a filly has won this race. The Preakness is 1 1/2 miles and that's a grueling distance for a 3 year old, especially a filly, but her trainer says this filly can gallop all day with little effort. She didn't run in the other 2 legs of the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby and The Belmont). If she had, could we possibly have had a Triple Crown winner? We'll never know.

I watched the race on TV and when the gates opened for the 7 horses running, this filly who was number 7 and on the outside, literally stumbled out of the gate. At that moment, I thought she was done for. How could she recover from that stumble against these 3 year old colts? Well, she did. Coming into the home stretch she moved right up to the front and it was a 4-way tie for a few seconds. Then the favorite, Curlin, ran away from the pack and headed for home. Rags was right behind him and the 2 of them dueled for the lead, with Rags gaining on him the closer they got to the finish line. I had goose bumps and was yelling at the TV. I wanted her to win so bad, and she did.!!! You would have thought I was the owner. Heck, I didn't even know they were running a filly until I turned on the TV. After they crossed the finish line, the camera panned back and you could see that Curlin and Rags were WAY ahead of the rest of the pack.

So here's a tribute to the big filly that did it. Congratulations.

I'm glad I didn't miss this race. It was thrilling.