Scientists give all-clear for meat and milk from cloned cattle

Three years ago cloned embryos from cattle cloned in the US were imported. In August the Food Standards Agency traced three bulls born in the UK from a cloned cow in the US, and in September they warned that it would be impossible to set up a regime to trace and label food from farms with cloned animals. Andrew Wadge, chief scientist at the agency, confirmed that meat and milk from cloned cattle and offspring shows no substantial difference to conventionally produced meat and milk. The conclusion by an independent body, Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, increases the chance that authorities will approve the sale of cloned animals and that consumers might want to see labelling to distinguish products that are from cloned cattle and products that are not from cloned cattle. There are no rules in Europe to sell food derived from clones in the US, they must pass a safety evaluation to approve being marketed, but it is legal. In December the agency’s board will discuss the issue and they will consider the committee’s opinion and also a recent European Commission proposal to ban such meat and milk.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/26/scientists-all-clear-cloned-meat

My reaction:

For me cloning is a new technique to create animals, by that I mean that cloning animals is not common especially not when it comes to eat them, because of this new technique people might not want to eat meat or drink milk from cloned cattle. I think it is because we know so little of cloned cattle that people might not trust it yet and for some people it is against their belief. It is good to research cloned cows and their offspring, and for better results and to gain the trust of people I think we have to wait a little bit longer.