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Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 08:25:06 AM PDT
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| So CyClone Dairy was a joke after all. I got an email yesterday from Michael Hansen suggesting that it was an April Fools joke. He might have known the truth already (Ben & Jerrys let it leak a day early to a few people - NOT including me) but he added that people just don't want to eat clones and therefore NO company in its right mind would actually advertise milk from clones.
What did Ben & Jerry's have to say about it?
April Fools! Ben & Jerry's launched a fictitious dairy company called "Cyclone Dairy" - selling milk made from 100% cloned cows in March 2009. CyClone Dairy isn't real, but it could be! Did you know that in January 2008, the U.S Food and Drug Administration declared milk and meat from cloned animals safe for human consumption, allowing cloned food products to enter the U.S. food supply?
We believe you should have the right to choose which foods you eat - and not to eat cloned foods if you don't want to. And that's why Ben & Jerry's believes we need a national clone tracking system, so people and companies can know where their food is coming from.
Please visit our friends at the Center for Food Safety to join our campaign to track clones and protect consumer choice.
And they added: We recognize that we may have duped a few allies - if so, thanks for your genuine outrage!
My recommendation: Check out this video of Ben & Jerry's trying to give fake "CyClone Dairy" free samples to consumers. The reactions from the consumers are pretty priceless. You can also check out Ben & Jerry's press release.
By the way - here's the part that's NOT a joke. As you can see in this article cloned cows are already used in our food supply. So if you don't want to drink milk from clones, it might be too late. |
| Jill Richardson :: CyClone Dairy: April Fools by Ben & Jerrys! |
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