Sentences with phrase «cloning animals for food»

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EU consumers may already be eating meat and dairy products from cloned animals, despite calls for a ban to prevent them entering the European food chain.

In 2008, the European Parliament voted for a ban on the sale of meat and milk from clones and their offspring and in October 2010 the European Commission recommended a five year ban on animal cloning for food production in the EU, and on the use of cloned farm animals and the marketing of food from clones.

About 64 percent of Americans are uncomfortable with animal cloning, and 43 percent believe the products are unsafe for consumption, according to a 2006 survey by the nonpartisan Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology.

Although cloning has gotten the go - ahead, the FDA in September proposed guidelines for regulating the use of genetically engineered animals for food and pharmaceuticals.

Barbara Glenn of the Biotechnology Industry Organization calls cloning «a breeding technique that will improve the quality and consistency of food» because only animals with desired traits are chosen for cloning.

Cloning animals is currently too expensive to be practical for food production, but farmers could clone top - quality animals as breeding stock.

New regulations are on the way for organic food in Canada, where cloned animals will be excluded; and for genetic information in the U.S., where the EEOC started hearings to implement Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.