{"id":537,"date":"2008-01-21T05:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T09:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2008-01-21T05:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T09:10:12","slug":"537","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/537\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/16\/business\/16clone.html?scp=3&#038;sq=clone\">F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe<\/a> a report by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/18\/business\/worldbusiness\/18clone.html?scp=2&#038;sq=ethics\">European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies<\/a> &#8220;doubts as to whether cloning animals for food supply is ethically justified.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The group said that surrogates carrying cloned embryos could suffer and that the clones themselves experienced a <strong>high rate of disease and other health problems that include increased weight, malformations, respiratory problems, enlarged livers, hemorrhaging and kidney abnormalities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In cattle, the group&#8217;s statement said, about <strong>20 percent of cloned calves do not survive the first 24 hours after birth and an additional 15 percent die before weaning.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after the F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe a report by the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies &#8220;doubts as to whether cloning animals for food supply is ethically justified.&#8221; The group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/537\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}