by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
“Cloned meat” is about to enter Canadian grocery stores without safety testing, disclosure, or labeling of any kind, after Health Canada quietly dismantled its 22-year policy that protected the public food supply from such products.
The Canadian government’s previous policy treated cloned products as novel foods requiring pre-market review.
The decision removes all oversight and allows cloned “meat” and “milk” products, and the offspring of cloned animals, to be sold to millions of Canadians with no indication whatsoever of their lineage.
The move immediately set off alarm bells in the United States.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cloned meat back in 2008 and allowed it to flood the food supply without labels.
Many Americans are only now discovering that they have likely been eating cloned products for years.
Online, the reaction has been explosive, with users calling the situation unacceptable and demanding transparency.
Some say they likely purchased cloned products unknowingly, blasting regulators for failing consumers and hiding the true origins of what is being sold on store shelves.
Opposition to cloned meat spans ethical, religious, and safety concerns.
Critics warn of serious animal-welfare issues, pointing to high rates of clone miscarriages, deformities, suffering, and death.
Others warn about potential contamination from antibiotics or hormones used on sick clones, animals that would never survive long enough to enter the food chain directly, but whose offspring do.
Ethical concerns also run deep, with many uncomfortable about the technology itself or warning that its normalization could open the door to attempts at human cloning.
Cloned meat is banned entirely in Europe.
In Europe, cloning farm animals and selling products from their offspring is illegal.
However, Canada is moving in the opposite direction.
