Cloned cow meat and milk debate begins
Posted by Alan | Under Food Law Wednesday Aug 11, 2010
Last week it was found that meat from a handful of cloned cows was sold on the market and ended up being consumed by several British families. It was added later that milk from the animals may also have ended up on supermarket shelves.
The news caused headlines to cry out that ‘supercalves’ were now being used within the diary industry. It was claimed later that hundreds of cloned cows were found in farms throughout the UK. The headlines claimed that meat from the cloned animals would soon fill up the meat shelves at grocers.
Although one might expect the FSA to lash out with a sense of calm, it instead announced that any items from a cloned animal should be thought of as a novelty item and thus would need to be approved by the FSA before it was sold and that they simply had not given permission.
However, the EU responded by saying that approval for the goods was not needed and that milk could be sold from the animals without any need to tell the authorities.
With this interpretation in mind, the milk and meat from cows could be all over the place without people being aware of the fact.
Grahame Bulfield, the past director of Roslin Institute where the first sheep was cloned, stated that the FSA is simply making itself look ridiculous because it cannot actually prove that cloned meat or diary is being used in any way or is in fact different than any other type of meat that may be consumed. He added that since there is not any evidence, it must be the same.
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