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Clone moan

News that cloned beef has entered the UK food chain has filled plenty of column issues in the national press, where it has met with a mixed response. There are those who can’t believe the story even warrants coverage, while others are questioning how such a thing could have been allowed to happen in the first place – despite the Food Standards Agency saying there’s no evidence that consuming such products poses a food safety risk.
But surely the real story here is not whether or not such products are fit for human consumption, but how few rules seem to exist in order to prevent such occurrences – and how seemingly impossible it is to enforce those rules.
What’s more, humans aside, cloning is known to cause suffering in animals, with well-documented links to miscarriage, organ defects and premature deaths.
So with both animal and human welfare potentially at stake, surely it’s time for proper regulation and monitoring – and for the FSA to prove that, despite this embarrassing start, it’s capable of rising to the challenge of its new food safety role.




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