Cloned Livestock Produce in EU Essay

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In his article, Derek Burke posits that "consumers' biggest concern is about risk, especially in light of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy epidemic: scientists, and the regulatory processes, are no longer trusted" (1998). This distrust in the system, both on a scientific and governmental level, is deep-rooted, in that food is part of the human experience which is personal and even intimate. People want to be able to trust their food providers. Therefore there is fear that just because cloned beef appears as edible as non-cloned beef does not guarantee that an animal with defects harmful for human consumption might be cloned (and that clone cloned, and so on), unleashing greater harm over a wider array of people than even the BSE or Foot and Mouth epidemics impacted.

The arguments against cloning have a lot to do with our collective fear not of the meat itself, but also the implications of cruelty to both animals in the present and people in the future. When asked the majority of people say that they are "opposed to cloning animals, let alone eating them. Some also said that cloning causes harm to the animals involved and could pave the way for human cloning" (Pollack and Martin, 2006). Cloning is not only a food practice that is questionable, but its place as a scientific practice in general is what is up for debate.

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The question arises as to whether consumers are entitled to knowing everything about their food. Farmers must already go through an extensive process to disclose the origins of their products and it seems only logical that the presence of cloning in the animals' background should be part of that disclosure. Yet too much disclosure could also pose problems. Ruth Chadwick's article asserts that "Repeated health warnings may lead to a feeling that the 'experts' will find something wrong with everything from milk to meat so you might as well eat what you want" (2000). This false sense of security could be just as problematic as living in blissful ignorance of precisely what is in your food.

Since the video has been produced, the FSA has met to discuss how to proceed with its treatment of cloned food. The FSA have "agreed that, for food safety purposes, mandatory labelling of meat and milk obtained from the descendants of cloned cattle and pigs would be unnecessary and disproportionate, providing no significant food safety benefit to consumers" (2010). They also agreed to proceed with caution, nothing that they desire "further evidence on how the rearing of clones and their descendants in different environments may affect the meat and milk" and have asked for more research be done in that regard (2010)......

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