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Despite a September, 2006 survey that found that 64% of Americans are repulsed by the idea of eating food from cloned animals, the FDA recently announced that milk, eggs and meat from cloned animals will soon be allowed on the market.
Ignoring a number of disturbing studies suggesting potential human health hazards, Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine said "that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day." Consumer, food safety, and animal welfare groups have condemned the announcement, pointing out that animal cloning is inherently unpredictable and hazardous, and that the practice of cloning has led to a high number of cruel and painful deformities in the experimental animals' offspring.
Recognizing that requiring labels on cloned food would lead to a massive boycott by consumers, FDA bowed to industry lobbyists by stating that there likely will be no required labeling of food products containing ingredients from cloned animals. The FDA's controversial proposed regulations in the Federal Register will now be followed by a three month public comment period.
The OCA is calling on health and humane-minded consumers across the nation to stop this outrageous and hazardous regulation from coming into force as federal law. The FDA will be accepting comments until April 2007.
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Cloning & Patenting Links
- Genetic Crossroads Newsletter - Center for Genetics and Society
- Public Patent Foundation - Representing the public's interest in the patent system
- Genetically Engineered Fish campaign by Center for Food Safety
- Action BioScience - Seven Biological challenges - how do they affect your life?
- Campaign for Responsible Transplantation
- FDA Xenotransplantation Action Plan - meetings
Cloning & Patenting News
- 04/22/08 - If This Meat Was From a Cloned Animal, Would You Eat It?
- 04/15/08 - 'Now We Have the Technology That Can Make a Cloned Child'
- 04/08/08 - Japan to Study Safety of Cloned Animals for Food
- 04/08/08 - No Quick End for Cloning Product Moratorium: USDA
- 03/28/08 - Thirteen States Demand 'Cloned' Label
- 03/27/08 - One Year Anniversary of OCA's Adam Eidinger's Hilarious "Daily Show" Appearance Discussing Cloning
- 03/27/08 - Savor the Irony:'Heart-Healthy' Pork from Pigs with Bad Hearts
- 03/05/08 - NGOs Wary of Doomsday Seed Vault
- 03/04/08 - Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism
- 02/21/08 - Food from Cloned Offspring Already in the Food Supply
- 02/18/08 - Consumers May Not be Able to Avoid Cloned Food (Except by Buying Organic)
- 02/08/08 - New York Times Rolls Out New Propagandist for Industrial Agriculture
- 01/27/08 - Cloned Meat Decision Sparks Consumer Campaign
- 01/25/08 - Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn't Work)
- 01/18/08 - Want to Avoid Cloned Foods? - Buy Organic
- 01/17/08 - Alert: FDA Approves Food From Cloned Animals
- 01/16/08 - FDA Ignores Consumer Opposition & Approves Cloned Food
- 01/16/08 - USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market
- 01/16/08 - Genetic Engineering: Beware the New "Doubly Green Revolution"
- 01/14/08 - Cloned Foods Face a Hard Sell
- 01/12/08 - Cloned Animals are Safe for Consumption, European Food Agency Says
- 01/11/08 - FDA Set to Give OK to Cloned Meat and Milk
- 01/06/08 - Cloned Livestock Poised To Receive FDA Clearance
- 01/04/08 - Cloned Livestock Poised To Receive FDA Clearance