
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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August 2, 2010
The Food Standards Agency has confirmed it will investigate reports that milk from a cow produced from a cloned parent is on sale in Britain. Read more
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July 29, 2010
Albrighton, England - Many Europeans recoil at the very idea of cloning animals. But a handful of breeders in Switzerland, Britain and possibly other countries have imported semen and embryos from cloned animals or their progeny from the United... Read more
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May 27, 2010
In a pending patent application from Monsanto even bacon and steaks are claimed: Patent application WO2009097403 is claiming meat stemming from pigs being fed with the patented genetically engineered plants of Monsanto. A similar patent is applied... Read more
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May 24, 2010
Environmentalists have begun a concerted campaign to ensure that new forms of "artificial life" are never released into the wider environment because of fears that the life-forms will hasten the extinction of wild species. Read more
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May 20, 2010
In a paper published today in the journal Science, the J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Inc announced the laboratory creation of the world's first self-reproducing organism whose entire genome was built from scratch by a machine.... Read more
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March 29, 2010
A federal judge on Monday struck down patents on two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The decision, if upheld, could throw into doubt the patents covering thousands of human genes and reshape the law of intellectual property. Read more
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February 2, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union's challenge of patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer goes to trial here today. Read more
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November 13, 2009
To the untrained eye, Pollard Farms looks much like any other cattle ranch. Similar looking cows are huddled in similar looking pens. But some of the cattle here don't just resemble each other. They are literally identical -- clear down to their... Read more