Brutal Bureaucracies: Cloning Animals for Meat and Milk Okayed

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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:36:58 -0500

" Lee Hall " <leehall wrote:

>

> Before the Bush administration goes, its many assaults to

> basic decency will

> include putting cloned farm animals on the planet. On the

> 15th of this

> month, the Food and Drug Administration made the United

> States the first

> country to approve animal cloning for the retail food

> industry. The European

> Union is poised to follow along, clearing the way for

> international trade to

> accept clone-derived flesh and dairy products. The

> European Food Safety

> Authority has announced

>

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS & grid= & xml=/earth/2

> 008/01/11/sciclone111.xml> , " [A]ssuming that unhealthy

> clones are removed

> from entering the food chain, it is very unlikely that

> any difference exists

> in terms of food safety between food products originating

> from clones and

> their progeny compared with those derived from

conventionally bred animals. "

>

> What are these people thinking?

>

www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/brutal-bureaucracies-cloning-animals-for-meat-and\

-milk-okayed/