CyClone Dairy – putting a good face on a bad practice
You’ve got to hand it to the CyClone Dairy people. They’ve decided that rather than hide the fact that they use milk from cloned animals and their offspring, they’ll brag about it instead and hope that people assume that their positive attitude comes from a product that‚ been proven “safe.” Unfortunately, the reality is quite the opposite of the website’s cheerful photos and catchy slogans.
The data on the safety of cloned products for human consumption is limited, while ethical concerns and negative animal health effects are extensive. However, the Food and Drug Administration, in keeping with their bad track record of approving questionable technologies with few questions asked, announced little over a year ago that they believed meat and milk from cloned animals safe to eat. The agency managed to ignore the litany of problems that have yet to be solved with the entire cloning process. They also ignored over 30,000 comments opposing their stance on cloning.
A variety of food companies have already made it known that they will not be using products from cloned animals, including Kraft Foods Inc., Smithfield Inc. (a surprisingly good action on their part), Ben & Jerry’s and more. Not to mention that recent polling has shown a majority of consumers are wary of cloned products. The International Dairy Foods Association predicted in 2007 that the $20 billion dairy industry could fall by 15% should cloned milk be introduced into the market.
With dairy farmers already suffering an economic backlash due to falling milk prices not yielding enough revenue to cover costs, they cannot afford further losses from selling products that consumers do not trust. CyClone Dairy should take the hint. Putting a good face on an unnecessary and potentially unsafe product isn’t slick marketing, it’s bad business.
It is satire.
I’m appaled by this! I followed the links to look at this CyClone Dairy Website and couldn’t believe it until I read the FDA Website and saw that they really did put a rubber stamp on cloning use. Not only dairy but meat too! No matter how many people wrote them to pled that they do more research, the FDA has allowed this, and now companies like CyClone are open to doing what they want.
However after thinking about it, I’m not sure about how I feel about CyClone Milk themselves. After all, they’re not trying to hide anything, and other companies almost certainly are. I talked to some friends and family over the weekend and none of them had heard about clonng being allowed, my husband even said that it couldn’t be true until I showed him the FDA Website (a pretty sad victory!)… None of us would even want to touch the CyClone Milk Products, but at least we know waht they are and the same doesn’t go for everything out there. this really make us think about waht else we might be eating and i for one am just really glad to know what this is to avoid it. If ALL COMPANIES that used clones in foods said so the way they do, wouldn’t that be better than what’s happening now? Instead of lashing out at CyClone,isn’t it the FDA that we should tell people not to trust since they’ve allowed this without people even knowing what they’re eating?
- Izza
The FDA tested cloned products and they don’t have a problem with it, so why should you? 30000 people writing is just lot of cranks, answering letters isn’t what the FDA does, they test for problems and didn’t find none pertaining to health. This is like with growth hormones with cows. The FDA didn’t have a problem, but people complained they should have labels and now you see writing all over milk when you go to the store, it’s just too much to read! so i say drink cyclone dairy milk and don’t worry. You want a label, they given you a label, that’s the brand. I say their more honest than most since there is probably clones in much more than cyclone dairy dairy, they just more honest! I like cyclone dairy for my cereal every day!!!
the dairy industry is deplorable for so many reasons, no use of milk or related products should be encouraged whatsoever. i know this isn’t a forum specifically for animal rights, but the employment of animals for human consumption is wasteful and environmentally irresponsible. the amount of resources that go into commercially raising mass amounts of animals could be directed in far better ways. even if the animals are treated respectfully it’s still inefficient.
It’s finally happened.
The site has no way to contact them – no email, phone or address. Could this be a “non-existent” company?
How can we contact them to express our discomfort that they flout the fact a label is not even required?
Thank You – Mrs. Michael Sabo
This Cyclone Dairy site is so obviously a hoax. The domain is registered anonymously through Go Daddy, a web hosting service. There is no contact information anywhere in the site. There’s nothing on it in a standard Google search–which doesn’t prove much, but does suggest that this is pretty bogus.
Folks interested in food safety and in public health should really be better able to sniff out an obvious hoax–the indignation over the issue is pretty funny. I wonder, though–perhaps the this site is meant to get the cloned food issue on the agenda? If so, maybe the mission has been accomplished.
Has anyone everseen products from or even mention of Cy-Clone Dairy apart from their presence on the internet? Could it be that this is a hoax site? It happens all the time and this may have been set up simply to annoy people and cause debate. It’s the internet, folks. Don’t believe everything you read. Until I see a product, I will not give credibility to a website which, as Mrs. Sabo points out, has no contact information.
it had me laughing…. then, i realized what was so hilarious about it, what made it not seem real and not quite right… it’s not ‘fake’, it’s totally ‘freak’. all the info is based in facts…. but like with clones, something went wrong in the development of their ideas and they thought people would really want to buy this….. what really grossed me out was realizing there’s nothing about my organic milk that promises it’s not from cloned cows…. if I still lived in the country i’d get a goat.
Uh, guys, this is fake.
Does it not come off as a little over-the-top to you?
I don’t get it. Once you clone a cow, it’s just a cow. They’re not grown in vats at secret government installations. My twin girls were born from in vitro, so they are “test tube babies”. That used to be scary. But they’re just little girls, born the normal way, growing the normal way. Cloning only takes place at the egg stage, so after that, it’s just a cow embryo in a surrogate mother. What’s the big deal?
My judgement on the Cyclone Dairy is that it is satire, most likely created by an individual or group that is against cloning, overly processed industrialized food production, and chemical and genetic engineering. I don’t think it is real – I think it is meant to stir the pot and get people thinking about the future of food production.
Seems that “we” were right. Put up by Ben and Jerry’s to start a political movement. Has to be one of the best marketing pieces I have seen in a while!
http://www.benjerry.com/activism/inside-the-pint/more-about-milk/cow-cloning/
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