Posted: 9/12/2015
Trigger
We read “The European Parliament today [9/8/2015] voted to ban the cloning of all farm animals as well as the sale of cloned livestock, their offspring, and products derived from them. The measure, which passed by a large margin, goes beyond a directive proposed by the European Commission in 2013, which would have implemented a provisional ban on the cloning of just five species: cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and horses.” (emphasis added).
European Luddites
The ban by the European Parliament “does not cover cloning for research purposes, nor does it prevent efforts to clone endangered species.” I presume, it does not cover pets either.
Do these European fools still believe Europe is the center of the world? Another bout of navel gazing by Europeans. Do they believe the rest of the world will stand still now?
“Companies in the United States and in China are cloning livestock for breeding and for research purposes, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found no significant differences between healthy clones and healthy animals from conventional breeding. It considers meat and other products form clones to be as safe as that from other farm animals.”
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