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US MANUFACTURER'S OPPOSITION. US Center for Food Safety stated in 2008 that "20 leading U.S. food producers—including Kraft Foods, General Mills, Gerber/Nestle, Campbell’s Soup and Ben and Jerry’s—will not use cloned animals in their products: "represents a growing industry trend of responding to consumer demand for better food safety, environmental and animal welfare standards." http://lnkd.in/dZ-n8kg View in LinkedIn

US FDA APPROVED CLONED MEAT AS FOOD. "In January 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of cloned animals and their offspring for food, despite fierce opposition from animal welfare and consumer advocacy groups, environmental organizations, some members of Congress, and many consumers." http://lnkd.in/dZ-n8kg View in LinkedIn

SMALL INITIAL SOURCE OF US CLONED MEAT IN 2008. "As of March 2008, the USDA estimated that there were around 600 cloned animals used for breeding in the United States." Numbers today are hard to source. http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/cloned-meat1.htm View in LinkedIn

INITIAL FDA VOLUNTARY BAN ON USA CLONED MEAT. "Livestock cloning has been going on since at least 1998. In 2003, the FDA issued a voluntary ban on food products from cloned animals and their offspring until the organization could examine the safety issues." http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/cloned-meat1.htm View in LinkedIn

EC OPPOSED CLONED FOOD. "Nevertheless, the European Commission drafted three laws in December 2013 proposing bans on: cloning techniques for farm animals in the European Union, the import of animal clones and the marketing of food from animal clones. It is estimated that the draft legislation chain of approval will be completed, at the earliest, in 2016." http://feedstuffsfoodlink.com/story-china-scales-cloning-animals-0-107792 View in LinkedIn

MEAT FROM PROGENY OF CLONED ANIMALS "will continue to be sold without labels in Britain after the European Commission refused to end the practice. Shoppers in the UK have been unknowingly eating meat sourced from the young of animals whose DNA has been altered for the past two years despite calls for it to be clearly labelled." http://lnkd.in/dxNA32E View in LinkedIn

2006: FDA OKs CLONED FOOD. "After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock. FDA believes “that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day." http://lnkd.in/dDwvPjz View in LinkedIn

CLONING ENTIRE MOUSE FROM STEM CELLS. "You can create an entire mouse from IPS cells. This has been done. They have used IPS cells to grow a mouse, and they made IPS cells from that mouse. They’re totipotent ... not merely pluripotent. We haven’t done this for humans for obvious ethical reasons, but we will do it." http://lnkd.in/dWBcA_p View in LinkedIn

CLONING HUMAN BANS. "But therapeutic cloning raises ethical questions. In 2005, The United Nations ?.. adopted a non-binding declaration that called for the ban of human cloning on the grounds of dignity. And the United States government has restricted the use of federal funds for research into therapeutic or reproductive cloning." http://lnkd.in/d3BjhdD View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTIVE VS THERAPEUTIC CLONING. "But nuclear transfer is also the first step in reproductive cloning, or producing a genetic duplicate of someone ... In 2005, the United Nations called on countries to ban it, and the United States prohibits the use of federal funds for either reproductive or therapeutic cloning." http://lnkd.in/dP5GBQj View in LinkedIn