Posted on 11/14/2025 9:21:35 AM PST by algore
Cloned meat will soon enter Canadian grocery stores without safety reviews or labeling - whereas some Americans have been eating it all along.
Health officials recently scrapped a 22-year-old policy that classified cloned meat as novel foods, removing pre-market safety assessments and allowing these products to be sold with no disclosure.
The move has sparked surprise in the US, after it was revealed that similar products have quietly been on shelves for years without labels.
The FDA approved meat and milk from cloned cattle, swine and goats, along with their offspring, in January 2008.
Nearly two decades later, many Americans are only now realizing that cloned meat is part of the food supply.
Social media users have reacted with shock and disbelief, calling the situation unacceptable.
Some argued that if cloned meat is allowed, it must at least be clearly labeled with its origin and production method.
Opponents have highlighted the high rates of suffering in the animals, including health problems and miscarriages, and the risk of antibiotics or hormones entering the food supply.
Ethical objections often include a general unease with the technology and fears that it could lead to human cloning.
Even more, cloned meat is not allowed for food production in Europe due to a ban on the cloning of farm animals and the sale of products derived from them.
The process to make cloned meat begins with the creation of a genetically identical copy of a 'desirable' animal.
That is then bred through normal reproduction, and its offspring eventually enter the food chain as meat, without shoppers having any way to know.
Health Canada has planned to roll out the change next year.
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Ed the butcher would cut it up for us and he had a huge meat locker section of his building that frozen and you would rent out meat space.
I wish I could still get my meat this way.
You just don't want to.
Soylent Green?
My in-laws would buy a cow once a year and feed it up all summer then off to the butcher’s place.
Father-in-law lived to 85 and mother-in-law still alive just turned 85..............
Huh? Huge business in US.
total bullshit clickbait headline: article is actually about cloned animals ...
Well, SOMEbody has to be the first to try it. Just like somebody had to be the first one to try raw oysters. I mean, it’s just Canadians. It’s not like we’ll miss them if this doesn’t go well.
Canadians should not have to eat anything that has not been fully tested on American citizens.
btw, right now it’s only the offspring of cloned breeding stock entering the USA food supply:
“Meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat, according to the FDA, but they are not expected to enter the food supply in large amounts. The primary purpose of cloning is to produce high-quality breeding stock, and it is their offspring, produced through normal reproduction, that will be sold for food. Because of this, the FDA does not require labeling for cloned products or their offspring.”
My son in law just got a nice deer here in NYS. I ordered 10 lbs of ground beef. I mix it with ground pork. It’s awesome.
Usurpers Presidency. Figures.
Waitress: Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings (starting to chant): Spam spam spam spam...
A calf................
Twins are clones. Are you people afraid of them?
BTW- animal production has been high tech reproduction since the 1970’s. My boss raised Angus cattle and used to get repro journals for cattle and hogs. Interesting reading about the changing methods of animal production.
To me the new frozen pizza, breakfast foods that have fake “sausage” is cloned. I really have to watch labels now. Chicken, pork, who knows what else is “sausage”.
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