Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow was eaten in the UK last year and this year, says the Food Standards Agency. Two bulls from the embryos of a cow cloned in the US were bought by a farmer in Scotland, and meat from one was sold on to consumers. Last night another similar bull was found to have also been illegally sold for meat in May. The farmer concerned says the animal had been authorized to enter the food chain. The FSA, the body empowered to sanction any so-called "novel" or new food before it can be produced and sold to consumers, says it has had no such request, nor given any authorization.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of cloning techniques, the current (rather blurred) state of regulation and its policing, and arguments around the economics of using a breeding technique which many say is inefficient, expensive and ethically questionable, who has actually asked the public if it wants to buy foodstuffs produced using such methods?
For more: Once again, the public are left in the dark over clone risks - Yorkshire Post
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