The European Union Commission has proposed a five-year ban on animal cloning in food production, but allows imports of food from cloned animals. The proposal follows a report tabled before the European Parliament in October, which sparked controversy and criticism.
The Commission’s reasoning? There’s nothing unsafe been found about meat and dairy products from cloned animals, but there is concern about animal welfare implications and ethics. Cloning is successful less than 20 per cent of the time and many cloned animals die shortly after birth, or after a shortened lifespan.