Britain's Cloned Beef & Milk

Meat from at least two bulls bred from a clone, have been illegally introduced into the UK food chain, and eaten by humans. The British Food Standards Agency traced four cows and four bulls bred from US cloned embryos, confirming that meat from two animals had been eaten and checking whether milk had also been consumed. According to the Guardian UK newspaper, the Scottish Newmeadows Holsteins dairy farm near Nairn, east of Inverness, sold cloned beef from one bull.

As a result of this cloning-human-consumption issue, ninety-seven Holstein dairy cows bred from both bulls may have to be slaughtered because their milk cannot legally be sold in the EU due to European wide restrictions on cloned meat and dairy products.

In the US, cloned cattle, pigs, and goats have been legally used in food products since 2008, while cloning animals is illegal in Britain, but they can be imported with a license.

Via Guardian UK

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