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Article: Public shows no appetite for cloned livestock ; Never let it be said that I am one to duck controversial issues, so this week I am going to tackle the highly contentious issue of cloning animals for food.
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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Never let it be said that I am one to duck controversial issues,
so this week I am going to tackle the highly contentious issue of
cloning animals for food.
For many years, this issue has seemed to be one for the distant
future, but ever since Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1998, the
technology has been racing ahead with a variety of animals including
sheep, cows, goats and pigs all having been cloned.
In January, the US government approved the production and
marketing of food coming from cloned animals, and many experts
predict such products could reach the market by 2010. They will most
likely appear in the dairy sector first, and with the background of
high food prices and increasing ...