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TIP OF THE WEEK:
CLONED MEAT NOW IN U.S. FOOD SUPPLY
Although the USDA only recently removed a voluntary market
sale moratorium on foods from cloned animals, a Kansas cattleman
claims these products are already in the U.S. food supply.
"I have sold offspring of cloned animals into feedlots,
and they are in the food chain," said Donald Coover,
a cattleman and veterinarian. Coover says he has sold semen
from clones to many US meat producers in the past few years,
and that others have been doing the same. Despite strong
public opposition, the FDA has announced that these foods
do not need to be labeled as such, so consumers buying meat
dairy and eggs don’t know if the product came from a cloned
animal. Fortunately, the USDA has clarified that foods labeled
as "organic" cannot come from cloned animals.
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