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EC FOOD CLONING LEGISLATION. "The first proposal would ban animal cloning for food purposes in the EU, as well as imports of cloned animals and embryos. The second proposal would ban the marketing of food, i.e. meat and dairy products from cloned animals in the EU." http://www.usda-eu.org/topics/animal-cloning/ View in LinkedIn

THE EU HORSE MEAT CONTAMINATION SCANDAL. "The recent horse meat scandal has put the spotlight on how our food is produced, how much we pay for it, and who ultimately controls what we eat." http://lnkd.in/dFn2hGT View in LinkedIn

MAD COW IN UK POPULATION TODAY AT 1:2,000. "At least one in 2,000 people in the UK carries an abnormal protein linked to the human form of mad cow disease, say researchers. The latest estimate has renewed fears that the incubation period may be longer than previously thought. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal, degenerative brain disorder." http://lnkd.in/dsey73Y View in LinkedIn

BRITS TOLD MAD COW WAS NOT A WORRY. "Between 460,000 and 482,000 BSE-infected animals had entered the human food chain before controls on high-risk offal were introduced in 1989.""British government officials at the time said don't worry, there is nothing to worry about. This of course only led the public to become more skeptical." http://lnkd.in/dYFs3u3http://lnkd.in/dAEigvb View in LinkedIn

COWS ARE HERBIVORES? Where have we come to when we are feeding cows locked up in pens without sunlight slaughterhouse leftovers from their and other species, and oil cake of seed oils extracted with toxic solvents? This madness has no good outcomes. View in LinkedIn

MAD COW CAUSED BY COWS BEING FED SLAUGHTERHOUSE WASTES: "being fed the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM), which caused the infectious agent to spread. The cause of BSE may be from the contamination of MBM from sheep with scrapie that were processed in the same slaughterhouse." http://lnkd.in/dYFs3u3 View in LinkedIn

UK IS STILL RECOVERING FROM MAD COW FIASCO. "The disease is believed to have passed from cattle to humans through consumption of meat products contaminated with BSE in the late 1980s and early 1990s." http://lnkd.in/dRXVQFr View in LinkedIn

FOOD REGULATION HAS BUMPY RECENT HISTORY, LOW CREDIBILITY. "Several recent food scares such as BSE, dioxins and foot and mouth disease have highlighted ... the practices it employs ... These scandals have shattered consumer trust in the safety of the food supply and intensified concerns over the industrialization of food production." http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/home/report/english/articles/vol65/ANU1E656.html View in LinkedIn

US AGRICULTURAL LOBBY POWER. "The power of the industrial agriculture lobby had blunted nearly all attempts at change, "having more money than Big Tobacco did in efforts to regulate cigarettes and the personality of the National Rifle Association." http://lnkd.in/dfSw5Uh View in LinkedIn

REVOLVING DOORS BETWEEN POWER AND LOBBYING. Food lobbyists look set to join EFSA’s board. http://corporateeurope.org/power-lobbies/revolving-doors View in LinkedIn