Would Jesus eat frankenfoods? Religions take on new US cloning policy for agriculture

by Actual News Geezer | October 19, 2006 at 06:14 am

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The US government is on the verge of approving the sale of meat and milk
from cloned livestock. So the question is: what would Jesus eat? Various faith groups are now formulating policies, according to this very interesting article from the Washington Post.

The world's religions are just now wrestling with how to respond to
recent changes in animal agriculture, said Harold Coward, director of
the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of
Victoria, B.C.
"New questions have required the development of new theologies," he said.

Hindus, he said, see animals as human souls in animal form and view eating meat as "quasi-cannibalism," so they need not ponder whether to eat clones. Nonetheless, he said, while Hindu leaders have said that genetically modified plants cannot be used in religious ceremonies, they have given their blessing to the consumption of those plants and to animal cloning generall