Organic Center Report on Cloned Meat

"For more information on the concerns surrounding the commercial use of cloned animals in food production, The Organic Center has available for free download on its website a report published in April 2007 entitled "Is the FDA's Cloning Proposal Ready for Prime Time? ". The report, authored by James Riddle of the University of Minnesota, discusses why epigenetic changes in cloned animals are important in terms of animal health and food safety, and exposes the total lack of a scientific basis for the FDA's standard for judging that a cloned animal is safe to eat - "substantial equivalence" (i.e. the animal "looks" normal)."

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