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EU to back sale of meat and milk from cloned animal offspring
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321550/EU-sale-meat-milk-cloned-animal-offspring.html
By Sean Poulter
Last updated at 2:20 AM on 19th October 2010
The sale of meat and milk from the offspring of cloned farm animals is
set to be backed by EU Commissioners despite mass consumer opposition.
A huge majority of the public is against clone animal farming,
according to studies in Britain and across Europe.
Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the
animals and a lack of research on food safety. However, a leaked
report to be discussed by the EU's College of Commissioners today
comes out in favour of food from the offspring of clones.
A new report suggests that the offspring of cloned animals could be consumed
Alarmingly, it appears this food would not have to be labelled,
leaving families completely in the dark about what they are putting in
their mouths.
Specifically, the report proposes a temporary five-year ban on the
sale of meat and milk from clones, but there would be no ban on food
from their offspring.
If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned
supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that
are reared for food.
Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including
malformed organs and gigantism. Many die in the womb or soon after
birth.
But the Commission and the Government take the view that meat and milk
from the offspring of a clone is effectively normal and therefore no
ban or labelling is required.
The Daily Mail revealed in the summer that more than 100 cattle –
pedigree Holstein milking cows – which are the offspring of clones are
being raised on British farms.
We also revealed how meat from two clone-offspring bulls and one veal
calf had been sold in butcher shops in Scotland, North-East England,
London and Belgium.
The Food Standards Agency has made clear it believes it is illegal to
sell meat and milk from these sources without first getting its
approval.
Food and farming minister Caroline Spelman supports the move to force
meat and milk from clone offspring into supermarkets.
The idea that the European Commission and the Government are putting
the interest of high-tech clone farmers over the concerns of consumers
and animal welfare has angered critics.
What's in your shopping bag? The Daily Mail revealed how meat from two
clone-offspring bulls and one veal calf had been sold in butcher shops
in Scotland, North-East England, London and Belgium
The attitude has echoes of the BSE crisis and the way biotech firms
tried to force GM food into the national diet.
A 2008 EU study found consumers across Europe are unhappy at this new
era of 'Frankenstein food' farming.
Eighty-seven per cent of Britons said too little is known about the
long-term health and safety effects of eating food from these animals.
A separate study for the FSA found that the more consumers learned
about cloning, the greater were the objections. The vast majority said
food derived from these animals should be labelled.
Even if the Commissioners and the Government back the sale of food
from clone offspring, this is not final. MEPs and other, more
sceptical, nations could try to block the policy.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321550/EU-sale-meat-milk-cloned-animal-offspring.html#ixzz12sk9TqV8
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