Food standards agency is clone food final go-ahead - daily mail

By daily mail reporter
Last updated at 1: 41 pm on August 8. December 2010

Meat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals was cleared for sale yesterday.

The food standards agency decided that food is not a risk to health and needs no special labelling.

More than 100 animals, especially young Holstein cows are clones and their flesh can now be sold without security checks.

More than 100 animals, especially young Holstein cows (above the race), derived from clones and their flesh can now be sold without security checks

Decision of the Agency was immediately provided by activists in question pointing clones to high miscarriage, organ failure and GIGANTISM in newborns.

There are also concerns that cloning a step closer is inhumane factory farming.

Environment, food and Rural Affairs Secretary Caroline Spelman has rejected a ban on the sale of food from clones or their progeny and your Department also resists marking.

The food standards agency has decided that meat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals is safe to consume

But Peter Stevenson, of compassion in world farming, said: ' consumers will find that food from a large high-tech process occurs even though serious problems for health and well-being of animals imposing is disturbed.

' On top of the absence of any marking will deny you the choice to decide whether you want to eat this. We have a Government talks about honest labelling, but it is for consumers say that you can exercise no choice.'

A spokesman for the RSPCA said: 'cloning has great potential to cause unnecessary pain, suffering and grief can be justified by purely commercial benefits.'

The Agency ruling by the national farmers' Union was welcomed, is in accordance with the policy of the European Commission.

It said it had no authority to rule on the animal welfare and ethics of cloning.

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