Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod

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Canadians Beware! Much of our grocery store meat comes from the US!

 

Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod

http://www.naturalnews.com/023718.html

 

The major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they

have not bothered to try and keep meat from the offspring of clones out of the

U.S. food supply, in spite of a request by the FDA several years ago.

 

" This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is not already

in the food chain, " said Donald Coover, who owns a specialty cattle semen

business. " Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn't know what they're

talking about, or they're not being honest. "

 

Coover admitted that for several years, he has been openly selling semen from

cloned bulls. He is sure, he added, that others are doing the same.

 

The revelation came as the FDAapproved cloned beefas safe for human consumption

but the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asked farmers to keep it out of

the food supplyanyway.

 

The USDA's primary concern is that if cloned beef enters the U.S. food supply,

other countries might refuse to purchase beef from the United States. Similar

problems have emerged in the past with genetically modified U.S. crops being

rejected, particularly in Europe but also in parts of Africa, Asia and the

Americas. Insiders from agencies such as the USDAand Office of the U.S. Trade

Representative noted that a product that no other country wants to buy might do

the United States more harm than good.

 

The USDA's request for a moratorium on cloned beef is meant to give time for " an

acceptance process " that will be needed " given the emotional nature of this

issue. "

 

A survey by the International Food Information Council Foundation found that 22

percent of U.S. residents surveyed had a favorable impression of cloned meat in

2007, as opposed to 16 percent in 2006. Approximately 50 percent had a negative

impression of such food.

 

The FDA has rejected calls to require the labeling of food produced from cloned

animals