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Article: EDITORIAL: Full disclosure: If FDA approves sale of meat, milk from cloned animals, the food should be so labeled.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2007
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Jan. 4--With expanded product labeling, a television network devoted to food and the vast resources of the Internet, consumers know more than ever about what they are eating. In light of that, the Food and Drug Administration's proposal to sell milk and meat from cloned animals without labeling the food bucks the trend toward more transparency.
The idea behind cloning animals is to duplicate animals with desirable traits, such as high milk production or the ability to fatten rapidly, then let them breed to pass on these traits to their offspring. The FDA says that because the food from cloned animals is virtually indistinguishable from conventional ...