Cloning & Patenting
FDA Approves Food from Clones: Tell Grocers You Won't Buy It
The FDA may have lifted the ban on cloned meat, but that doesn't mean we have to accept cloned meat in our stores. Grocery stores will only stock cloned meat if it is profitable for them, and together we can make sure that it isn't. Let the grocery stores know that you intend to exercise your power as a consumer and vote with your pocketbook.
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February 23, 2011
After 13 years of studying how to prevent abnormalities in cloned animals, AgResearch has ended its cloning project because too many of the animals died. Read more
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December 10, 2010
It's like something out of a bad sci-fi movie: cloned animals giving birth to genetically superior progeny, who populate farms by the thousands, producing vast amounts of milk and meat. Unfortunately, this very scene has already started in the... Read more
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October 29, 2010
Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature. The new position could have a huge impact on medicine and on the biotechnology... Read more
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October 14, 2010
European Union regulators are getting ready to propose rules on cloned livestock that would be stronger than those in the United States with regard to actual clones, but would seek to avoid trade tensions by allowing imports of food produced from... Read more
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October 25, 2010
Under the guise of developing "climate-ready" crops, the world's largest seed and agrochemical corporations are filing hundreds of sweeping, multi-genome patents in a bid to control the world's plant biomass, according to a report released by ETC... Read more
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September 30, 2010
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), chairwoman of the House committee that controls the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture budgets, introduced a bill Wednesday that would mandate labeling of genetically modified fish. Read more
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September 18, 2010
It's just a matter of time before we are eating clones””if we are not eating them now. Read more
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March 27, 2007
Hilarious piece the Daily Show did on cloning. Read more
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August 10, 2010
OTTAWA - The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Tuesday said he doesn't know whether cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply. Read more
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August 6, 2010
BERLIN - A civil society protest against a British agrochemical company that claims it has invented a particular sort of broccoli has again focused attention on the question who owns natural biodiversity, especially vegetables, seeds, and many... Read more
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