News archive: October 2008

The vast majority of consumers believe cloned animals and their offspring should not be farmed for food, according to an EU study. Currently, there is no law to stop meat and milk from these animals getting into the food chain. Nor is there any requirement to label food from clone offspring. The EU and Britain’s Food Standards Agency are in the throes of deciding how clone farming should be policed. A survey of 25,000 European consumers yesterday made clear that families are unhappy at ‘Frankenstein Food’ farming.

Sean Poulter, Daily Mail, UK