Sentences with phrase «cloning for food production»

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.

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The plant scientist, who has been working on apomixis for a number of years with molecular geneticist Peggy Ozias - Akins, also at Georgia, says, «If one could clone the genetic mechanism [of apomixis] and introduce it to maize, rice and wheat, it would revolutionize food production.»

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