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Our daughter was born January 25, 2008 at 3:19 pm. She was 7 lbs 7 oz and 19 inches long.

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Via Jack Bog's Blog.

Food.

I'm reading a Q&A with Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, and I come across his assessment of the problem with cloning animals for food.

I think the bigger concern with cloned animals is not personal health. It’s what will it take to keep a herd of genetically identical chickens, horses or pigs alive? Sex and variation is what keeps us from getting wiped out by microbes. If everything is genetically identical, one disease can come along and wipe out the entire group. You will need so many antibiotics and so much sanitation to keep a herd of these creatures going. The bigger concern should be antibiotic resistance.

I would go further and say that further centralizing our food distribution would also be detrimental.  So many foods come from the same small processing plants, particularly meat, that it's scary and dangerous. For the whole Q&A go here: An Omnivore Defends Real Food (NYT 1/17/2008).

Pollan also boils down eating well to 7 short words:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.