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Despite a September, 2006 survey that found that 64% of Americans are repulsed by the idea of eating food from cloned animals, the FDA recently announced that milk, eggs and meat from cloned animals will soon be allowed on the market.
Ignoring a number of disturbing studies suggesting potential human health hazards, Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine said "that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day." Consumer, food safety, and animal welfare groups have condemned the announcement, pointing out that animal cloning is inherently unpredictable and hazardous, and that the practice of cloning has led to a high number of cruel and painful deformities in the experimental animals' offspring.
Recognizing that requiring labels on cloned food would lead to a massive boycott by consumers, FDA bowed to industry lobbyists by stating that there likely will be no required labeling of food products containing ingredients from cloned animals. The FDA's controversial proposed regulations in the Federal Register will now be followed by a three month public comment period.
The OCA is calling on health and humane-minded consumers across the nation to stop this outrageous and hazardous regulation from coming into force as federal law. The FDA will be accepting comments until April 2007.
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Cloning & Patenting Links
- Genetic Crossroads Newsletter - Center for Genetics and Society
- Public Patent Foundation - Representing the public's interest in the patent system
- Genetically Engineered Fish campaign by Center for Food Safety
- Action BioScience - Seven Biological challenges - how do they affect your life?
- Campaign for Responsible Transplantation
- FDA Xenotransplantation Action Plan - meetings
Cloning & Patenting News
- 04/22/08 - If This Meat Was From a Cloned Animal, Would You Eat It?
- 04/15/08 - 'Now We Have the Technology That Can Make a Cloned Child'
- 04/08/08 - Japan to Study Safety of Cloned Animals for Food
- 04/08/08 - No Quick End for Cloning Product Moratorium: USDA
- 03/28/08 - Thirteen States Demand 'Cloned' Label
- 03/27/08 - One Year Anniversary of OCA's Adam Eidinger's Hilarious "Daily Show" Appearance Discussing Cloning
- 03/27/08 - Savor the Irony:'Heart-Healthy' Pork from Pigs with Bad Hearts
- 03/05/08 - NGOs Wary of Doomsday Seed Vault
- 03/04/08 - Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism
- 02/21/08 - Food from Cloned Offspring Already in the Food Supply
- 02/18/08 - Consumers May Not be Able to Avoid Cloned Food (Except by Buying Organic)
- 02/08/08 - New York Times Rolls Out New Propagandist for Industrial Agriculture
- 01/27/08 - Cloned Meat Decision Sparks Consumer Campaign
- 01/25/08 - Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn't Work)
- 01/18/08 - Want to Avoid Cloned Foods? - Buy Organic
- 01/17/08 - Alert: FDA Approves Food From Cloned Animals
- 01/16/08 - FDA Ignores Consumer Opposition & Approves Cloned Food
- 01/16/08 - USDA Recommends That Food From Clones Stay Off the Market
- 01/16/08 - Genetic Engineering: Beware the New "Doubly Green Revolution"
- 01/14/08 - Cloned Foods Face a Hard Sell
- 01/12/08 - Cloned Animals are Safe for Consumption, European Food Agency Says
- 01/11/08 - FDA Set to Give OK to Cloned Meat and Milk
- 01/06/08 - Cloned Livestock Poised To Receive FDA Clearance
- 01/04/08 - Cloned Livestock Poised To Receive FDA Clearance
- 12/20/07 - 'Clone-Free' Milk Could Get Label
- 12/18/07 - Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
- 12/09/07 - Extreme Monopoly: Venter's Team Makes Vast Patent Grab on Synthetic Genomes
- 10/29/07 - Cloned Meat, Dairy Make Way to the Table
- 10/18/07 - Patents Could Play Major Role in Global Biofuels Market
- 10/06/07 - Corporate Greed, Intellectual Property Laws and the Destruction of Human Civilization
- 08/29/07 - Monsanto Looks to Patent Pigs
- 08/14/07 - U.S. Patent Office Re-Opens Debate Over Animal Patents
- 07/11/07 - According to Experts, The US Could Approve Cloned Animals for Use as Food in Two to Three Years
- 05/05/07 - FDA Flooded with 130,000 Letters from OCA & Public Interest Groups Opposing Cloned Animals in Food Chain
- 05/04/07 - EU Patent Offices Rejects Monsanto's Monopoly Patent on Soybeans after 13 Year Battle
- 05/01/07 - Monsanto's Soybean Monopoly Challenged in Munich
- 04/27/07 - Corn Growers Back Patent Reform to Protect Against GMOs
- 04/20/07 - OCA ALERT: FDA To Approve Animal Clones in Human Foods: Comment Period Extended
- 04/19/07 - Organic Label Will Ban Cloned Meat & Animal Products
- 04/07/07 - See Hilarious Daily Show Report on OCA's Campaign Against Cloned Meat
- 03/30/07 - NOSB Votes to Prohibit Clones in Organic Production
- 03/23/07 - FDA 'Cherry Picked' Evidence to Push Cloned-Animal Foods
- 02/20/07 - Thailand Challenges Big Pharma, Threatens to Further Override Patents to Give Thai People More Affordable Generic Medicine
- 02/19/07 - Can You Trust the FDA on the Supposed Safety of Cloned Meat?
- 02/14/07 - Why Patents on Genes Threaten Public Health & Medical Research
- 02/11/07 - Senate Bill Would Bar USDA Organic Label on Cloned Foods
- 01/30/07 - Alert: Nanotechnology Food Coming to a Fridge Near You
- 01/30/07 - Can Food From Cloned Animals Be Called Organic?
- 01/24/07 - Biotech 'Solutions' for Factory Farming Worse than Problem
- 01/23/07 - Jim Riddle on the FDA's Proposal to Allow Cloned Meat & Milk on the Market
- 01/20/07 - Scientists genetically modify animal clones to survive factory farming conditions
- 01/17/07 - Milk from Cloned Cows Leaks Into UK
- 01/16/07 - Destroying Biodiversity: Why 'Cloneburgers' Are a Bad Idea
- 01/09/07 - Cloned Meat & Dairy--The Hidden Agenda
- 01/07/07 - Consumers Suspicious of Cloned Meat & Milk