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.
LORD Winston, the fertility expert and Labour peer, is to begin breeding genetically modified pigs in the hope of providing organs for transplant to humans, it was reported yesterday.
Scientists in London and California have begun experiments to find a solution to record waits for organ transplants. In Britain around 8,000 patients are on waiting lists. "People needing a new heart or liver are waiting for someone else to die - usually a violent death in a traffic accident," Lord Winston wrote in a Sunday newspaper. Lord Winston, who heads the Institute of Reproductive and
Read more1.USDA Seeks to Segregate Modified Livestock
2.The genetic engineer's garbage can: the U.S. food supply
NOTE: Just as with crops, segregation is a non-starter, with experimental GM animals already having ended up in the food chain - see item 2 --- --- 1.USDA Seeks to Segregate Modified Livestock By BILL TOMSON Wall Street Journal, August 29 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121997565847182283.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox
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A dog is not just for Christmas, or even for life. If you've got the cash, it could be for eternity.
South Korean biotechnologists have engineered a pet resurrection that, until recently, seemed commercially impossible: they have reunited a Californian woman with her dearest friend - or, at least, genetic copies derived from the frozen remains of his ear.
More than £25,000 the poorer but weeping with joy, Bernann McKinney, 57, became the world's first paying customer yesterday in the strange new industry of canine cloning.
Held in her arms was a quintet of
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Food Safety, Animal Health and Welfare and Environmental Impact of Animals
[1] derived from Cloning by Somatic Cell Nucleus Transfer (SCNT) and their Offspring and Products Obtained from those Animals
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Summary
In 2007 the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked by the European Commission to provide a scientific opinion on the food safety, animal health, animal welfare and environmental implications of animal clones, obtained through somatic cell nucleus transfer (SCNT) technique, of their progeny and
Read moreThe major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they have not bothered to try and keep meat from the offspring of clones out of the U.S. food supply, in spite of a request by the FDA several years ago.
"This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is not already in the food chain," said Donald Coover, who owns a specialty cattle semen business. "Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking about, or they're not being honest."
Coover admitted that for several years, he has been openly selling semen from
Read moreDuane Kraemer approaches with pride the Angus bull eating hay behind a fence at Texas A&M University. As the veterinary surgeon draws near, the bull snorts and paws the ground.
Healthy as he looks, many Americans would not want to see this bull become steak on their plate. His name, "86 squared", hints at his origins as the clone of a bull called 86.
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Read moreEXTRACT: When Newberry looks ahead, he likes to picture the day when GTC's goat herd will become the pharmaceutical equivalent of a soft-drink machine, dispensing a vast array of life-giving substances on command.
CHARLTON, Mass. -- Encompassed by pastoral green fields, the headquarters of GTC Biotherapeutics looks like any other New England farmstead. But its serenity is deceiving. Behind barn doors, the farm's most valuable employees -- a herd of pygmy goats from New Zealand -- are working round the clock, their milk glands churning out hundreds of
1. WELCOME TO THE CLONING FACTORY
2. Cloned animals research report published
3. We have lost our way with food
NOTE: The third piece below's an article from The Times disparaging the public concerns about cloned animals revealed by a report from the UK's Food Standards Agency.
Typically, while being patronising about the public's "ignorance" and misplaced squeamishness over cloning, its author displays a lack of knowledge about the subject that's truly astonishing, even claiming cloning is essential for
Read moreThe Agency carried out the UK-wide research in advance of being asked by any company wanting authorisation to market food produced using cloned animals. The FSA is the UK body responsible for the assessment of these and other novel foods (these are foods that do not have a history of significant consumption within the European Union before May 1997).
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Cloned animals and their offspring have been declared safe to eat; in a matter of months their meat will be on sale in the US. Ed Pilkington reports on a PR timebomb that's about to blow
It is an absurdly pretty setting. A row of conifers borders snowbound fields that stretch for miles to a low horizon. Birds are nesting. Magnificent Angus cattle meander under a metallic blue sky, with the sweet smell of silage hanging over everything.
A sign nailed to one of the cattle pens provides the first clue that this picture postcard view is not as quaintly old-
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